1、CET4选词填空答题技巧Passage 1 What is it about Americans and food? We love to eat, but we feel 1 about it afterward. We say we want only the best, but we strangely enjoy junk food. Were 2 with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity(肥胖). Perhaps the 3 to this ambivalence(矛盾情结) l
2、ies in our history. The first Europeans came to this continent searching for new spices but went in vain. The first cash crop(经济作物) wasnt eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibition, intended to prohibit drinking but actually encouraging more 4 ways of doing it.The immigrant experience, too, has be
3、en one of inharmony. Do as Romans do means eating what “real Americans” eat, but our nations food has come to be 5 by importspizza, say, or hot dogs. And some of the countrys most treasured cooking comes from people who arrived here in shackles.Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food ha
4、s been a medium for the nations 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 6 .But strong opinions have n
5、ot brought 7 . Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become 8 of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain.The 9 in food is still prosperous in the American consciousness. Its no coincidence, then, that the first Thanksgiving holds the American im
6、agination in such bondage(束缚). Its what we eatand how we 10 it with friends, family, and strangersthat help define America as a community today.A) answerI) creativeB) resultJ) beliefC) shareK) suspiciousD) guiltyL) certaintyE) constantM) obsessedF) definedN) identifyG) vanishO) idealsH) adaptedKeys:
7、 1. D 2. M 3. A 4. I 5. F 6. B 7. L 8. K 9. J 10. CPassage 2 Linda Joness two-year-old son, Reilly, was sharing a hot dog on the deck overlooking her friend Lisa Roths swimming pool. One moment Jones was watching Reilly goof around with the other children at this 1 of moms and kids last July. The ne
8、xt moment he was gone. Jones turned to her friend Maschel Rawlings and asked, “Have you seen Reilly?” Rawlings stood, scanned the pool and 2 screamed. Reilly was 3 facedown in the deep end. What happened next was a 4 textbook response: As Rawlings dove in the pool, 5 the boy, rolled him over and swa
9、m him to the edge, their host, Lisa Roth, rushed into the house and called 911. At the pools 6 , Rawlings handed Reilly up to his mother. His skin was blue, his eyes had rolled back in his head. He wasnt breathing. Jones laid him next to the pool, and Rawlings, whod taken a CPR course with Jones jus
10、t four months earlier, 7 began rescue breathing. Hanging up the phone, Roth, a former flight attendant whod had seven CPR courses over the years, ran back out to the pool and took over CPR from Rawlings. Three long minutes went by with Roth breathing into Reillys mouth and performing chest compressi
11、ons while Rawlings and Jones 8 his condition. Gradually his color returned, and then, just as paramedics were arriving on the scene, Rawlings looked at Roth. “Hes breathing,” she said. The 9 with which the women acted saved Reillys life. Linda Jones finds it hard to express her feelings for her two
12、friends. “Im eternally 10 ,” she says simply. “They did everything right.” A) noticeableI) floatingB) decisivenessJ) initiallyC) immediatelyK) edgeD) monitoredL) gratefulE) expandingM) gatheringF) typicalN) resumedG) precautionO) suddenlyH) graspedKeys: 1. M 2. O 3. I 4. F 5. H 6. K 7. C 8. D 9. B 1
13、0. LPassage 3As the pace of life continues to increase, we are fast losing the art of relaxation. But relaxation is _1_ for a healthy mind and body. Stress is a natural part of everyday life and there is no way to _2_ it. In fact, it is not the bad thing as it is often supposed to be. A certain amou
14、nt of stress is vital to provide motivation and give purpose to life. It is only when the stress gets out of _3_ that it can lead to poor performance and ill health. The amount of stress a person can withstand depends very much on the individual. Some people are not afraid of stress, and such _4_ ar
15、e obviously prime material for managerial responsibilities. Others lose heart at the first sight of _5_ difficulties. When exposed to stress, in whatever form, we react both physically and _6_. In fact we make choice between “flight or fight” and in more _7_ days the choices made the difference betw
16、een life or death. The crises we meet today are unlikely to be so extreme, but however little the stress, it involves the same _8_. It is when such a reaction lasts long, through continued _9_ to stress, that health becomes endangered. Since we cannot _10_ stress from our lives it would be unwise to
17、 do so even if we could, we need to find ways to deal with it.A) exposureI) unusualB) charactersJ) controlC) answerK) removeD) chemicallyL) escapeE) avoidM) responseF) psychologicallyN) backwardG) primitiveO) essentialH) transferKeys: 1. O 2. E 3. J 4. B 5. I 6. F 7. G 8. M 9. A 10. KPassage 4 As is
18、 known to all, the organization and management of wages and salaries are very complex. Generally speaking, the Accounts Department is _1_ for calculations of pay, while the Personnel Department is interested in discussions with the employees about pay. If a firm wants to _2_ a new wage and salary st
19、ructure, it is essential that the firm should decide on a _3_ of job evaluation and ways of measuring the performance of its employees. In order to be _4_, that new pay structure will need agreement between Trade Unions and employers. In job evaluation, all of the requirements of each job are define
20、d in a detailed job description. Each of those requirements is given a value, usually in “points”, which are _5_ together to give a total value for the job. For middle and higher management, a special method is used to evaluate managers on their knowledge of the job, their responsibility, and their
21、_6_ to solve problems. Because of the difficulty in measuring management work, however, job grades for managers are often decided without _7_ to an evaluation system based on points. In attempting to design a pay system, the Personnel Department should _8_ the value of each job with these in the job
22、 market. _9_, payment for a job should vary with any differences in the way that the job is performed. Where it is simple to measure the work done, as in the works done with hands, monetary encouragement schemes are often chosen, for _10_ workers, where measurement is difficult, methods of additiona
23、l payments are employed.A) compareI) successfulB) responsibleJ) combinedC) usefulK) NecessarilyD) addedL) capacityE) findM) abilityF) referenceN) BasicallyG) indirectO) adoptH) methodKeys: 1. B 2. O 3. H 4. I 5. D 6. M 7. F 8. A 9. K 10. G Passage 5 Americans are proud of their variety and individua
24、lity, yet they love and respect few things more than a uniform. Why are uniforms so _1_ in the United States? Among the arguments for uniforms, one of the first is that in the eyes of most people they look more _2_ than civilian（百姓的） clothes. People have become conditioned to _3_ superior quality fr
25、om a man who wears a uniform.The television repairman who wears a uniform tends to _4_ more trust than one who appears in civilian clothes. Faith in the _5_ of a garage mechanic is increased by a uniform. What an easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a barber, or a waiter to _6_ professional
26、 identity（身份） than to step out of uniform? Uniforms also have many _7_ benefits. They save on other clothes. They save on laundry bills. They are often more comfortable and more durable than civilian clothes. Primary among the arguments against uniforms is their lack of variety and the consequent lo
27、ss of _8_ experienced by people who must wear them. Though there are many types of uniforms, the wearer of any particular type is generally stuck with it, without _9_, until retirement. When people look alike, they tend to think, speak, and act _10_, on the job at least.A) skillI) inspireB) popularJ
28、) differentlyC) getK) expectD) changeL) practicalE) similarlyM) recallF) professionalN) loseG) character O) ordinaryH) individualityKeys: 1. B 2. F 3. K 4. I 5. A 6. N 7. L 8. H 9. D 10. EPassage 6 Britain is not just one country and one people; even if some of its inhabitants think so. Britain is,
29、in fact, a nation which can be divided into several _1_ parts, each part being an individual country with its own language, character and cultural _2_. Thus Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales do not claim to _3_ to “England” because their inhabitants are not _4_ “English”. They are Scottish, Irish
30、 or Welsh and many of them prefer to speak their own native tongue, which in turn is _5_ to the others. These cultural minorities(少数民族) have been Britains original inhabitants. In varying degrees they have managed to _6_ their national characteristics, and their particular customs and way of life. T
31、his is probably even truer of the _7_ areas where traditional life has not been so affected by the _8_ of industrialism as the border areas have been. The Celtic races are said to be more emotional by nature than the English. An Irish temper is legendary. The Scots could rather _9_ about their reputation for excessive thrift and prefer to be remembered for their folk songs and dances, while the Welsh are famous for their singing. The Celtic _10_ as a whole produces humorous writers and artists, such as the Irish Bernard Shaw, the Sc
