2009年12月英语四级考试预测试题及答案(4)

　　Michael Jordan is an American (36)__________ basketball player in the NBA, who led the Chicago Bulls to five NBA (37)________. Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York, and (38)___________in Wilmington, North Carolina。

　　Jordan began to play with the Chicago Bulls team in the NBA in (39)_________. He finished his first (40)_________as one of the top (41)________in the league, with an (42)___________of 28.2 points per game; he also made the first of his eight All-Star game (43)__________. He led the NBA in scoring for nine seasons, and averaged more than 30 points per game in each season. (44)___________. He led the Chicago Bulls to their first NBA championship title in 1991.(45)__________ . Jordan was also a member of the United States Olympic basketball team, (46)_________________。

　　Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)(25 minutes)

　　Section A

　　Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once。

　　Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage。

　　What is it about Americans and food? We love to eat, but we feel 47 about it afterward. We say we want only the best, but we strangely enjoy junk food. We’re 48 with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity. Perhaps the 49 to this ambivalence lies in our history. The first Europeans came to this continent searching for new spices but went in vain. The first cash crop wasn’t eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibition, intended to prohibit drinking but actually encouraging more 50 ways of doing it。

　　The immigrant experience, too, has been one of in harmony. Do as Romans do means eating what “real Americans” eat, but our nation’s food has come to be 51 by imports-pizza, say, or hot dogs. And some of the country’s most treasured cooking comes from people who arrived here in shackles。

　　Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been a medium for the nation’s defining struggles, whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sit-ins at southern lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whether one refrains from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat for political 52 。

　　But strong opinions have not brought 53 . Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become 54 of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain。

　　The 55 in food is still prosperous in the American consciousness.It’s no coincidence,then,that the first Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bondage(束缚).It’s what we eat—and how we 56 it with friends。

　　[A]answer[B]result[C]share[D]guilty

　　[E]constant[F]defined[G]vanish[H]adapted

　　[I]creative[J]belief[K]suspicious[L]certainty

　　[M]obsessed[N]identify[O]ideals