Question

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. turn      B. eagerly   C. concerned     D. particularly   E. growing         F. changed   G. produced  H. international   I. popular       J. called

There have been a lot of changes in American eating habits in the last ten years. One is the __小題1:__ awareness of the nutritional value of food. Another is an increasing interest in a variety of __小題2:__ foods. Since about 1970, Americans have been more and more __小題3:__ about health. They have begun to notice the ingredients（配料） in what they eat.
When they select food in the supermarket, they __小題4:__ the package over to read the labels carefully. They prefer to eat food that is __小題5:__ without unnecessary chemicals and often choose fruits and vegetables grown without poisons used to kill insects. A small group of Americans, __小題6:__ vegetarians, has decided not to eat meat. They choose a complete diet from other kinds of food because they think that meat products are not good for health.
Also more and more Americans have become interested in food from other countries. They have been going out to international restaurants and __小題7:__ trying unfamiliar dishes. Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, and Greek cooking as well as many other recipes（食譜）are all __小題8:__ these days in the United States. People to say that Americans ate uninteresting, unhealthy food, but this has __小題9:__ in the last ten years.

Answer 1

小題1:E
小題2:H
小題3:C
小題4:A
小題5:G
小題6:J
小題7:B
小題8:I
小題9:F

試題分析：本文敘述了美國人的飲食變化，他們越來越重視食物的營養(yǎng)價值和對健康的影響，他們?nèi)コ�市買東西要仔細看一下標簽，他們愿意買不含化學(xué)物質(zhì)的食品，有的人還愿意品嘗外國的大餐。
小題1:因為空格前面有冠詞，后有名詞所以判斷這里該用形容詞，句意：一個是日益增長的有營養(yǎng)價值的食品的意識；根據(jù)an increasing interest 也可判斷與increasing同一的詞，所以用growing，故選E。
小題2:根據(jù)Also more and more Americans have become interested in food from other countries. 來自國外的食品所以用international，故選H。
小題3:這是固定短語be concernedabout關(guān)心；美國人越來越關(guān)心健康，故選C。
小題4:根據(jù)the package over to read the labels carefully.這里是turn over翻過來，他們要翻過來仔細地看一下標簽，故選A。
小題5:這里是定語從句，先行詞是food，關(guān)系詞在從句中作主語，food與動詞之間是被動關(guān)系，這里必須用謂語動詞的過去分詞，所以只有F、J和G，根據(jù)句意應(yīng)該是食物被生產(chǎn)出來，故選G。
小題6:另外一組美國人被稱為素食者，已經(jīng)決定不吃肉，這里Americans與call之間是被動關(guān)系，這里是過去分詞短語作定語，故選J。
小題7:他們出去到國際的餐館迫切想嘗吃一下不熟悉的菜，根據(jù)句意故選B。
小題8:在美國，日本、法國、意大利、希臘和許多其他國家的食譜都是受歡迎的，根據(jù)句意故選I。
小題9:人們過去常常說美國人吃的都是沒有興趣的不健康的食品，但是這種現(xiàn)象在過去的十年里已經(jīng)發(fā)生了很大改變，故選F。