阅读题型在大学英语六级中占有相当大的比重，阅读的分数却不是那么容易拿全。而每错一道题目，则相应失分也非常惨重,所以，在六级备考过程中攻克阅读难题，除了技巧之外，还需要大量的练习，在不断的练习中灵活运用技巧，提升阅读能力。环球博海四六级小编特整理了2014年英语六级阅读备考训练题及答案(46)，供广大2014年的考生练习!

　　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. We’re 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) lies 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) wasn’t 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 been one of inharmony. Do as Romans do means eating what “real Americans” eat, but our nation’s food has come to be 5 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 6

　　But strong opinions have not 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. 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 10 it with friends, family, and strangers—that help define America as a community today.

　　A. answer I. creative

　　B. result J. belief

　　C. share K. suspicious

　　D. guilty L. certainty

　　E. constant M. obsessed

　　F. defined N. identify

　　G. vanish O. ideals

　　H. adapted