填空题
英语四级
2008-11-17
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.
Questionsare based on the following passage.
The food we eat seems to have significant effects on our health. Although science has made enormous 1 in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat. Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, 2 cancer of the colon. Different cultures are more likely to 3 certain illnesses because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures. That food is related to illness is not a new 4 . In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates (硝酸盐) and nitrites (亚硝酸盐), 5 used to preserve colors in meats, and other food additives, caused cancer. Yet, these additives remain in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which things on the packaging 6 of processed food are helpful or harmful. The additives that we eat are not all so 7 . Farmers often give penicillin to beef and fowl and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of 8 cows. Sometimes similar drugs are given to animals not for medical purposes, but for 9 reasons. The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to 10 a higher price on the market. Although the Food and Drug Administration has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices continue.
A.contract F.treated K.steps
B.labels G.measures L.signatures
E.direct H.obtain M.discovery
D.especially I.invention N.related
E.social J.commonly 0.financial
Although science has made enormous 1 in making food more fit to eat, it has,
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答案解析
【解析】选[K]。空前的形容词表明此处应填一名词,且能与made搭配使用。该句是让步状语从句,由其后主句的意思:同时很多食物不适合吃,可推测,该句的意思为科学家在制造适合吃的食物方面取得了巨大的进步,故答案为[K] steps.[G]measures(措施)为丰扰项。