四六级选词填空练习

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One in six. Believe it or not, that’s the number of Americans who struggle with hunger. To make tomorrow a little better, Feeding America, the nation’s largest36 hunger-relief organization, has chosen September as Hunger Action Month. As par t of its 30 Ways in 30 Days program, it’s asking 37 across the country to help the more than 200 food banks and 61,000 agencies in its network provide low-income individuals and families with the fuel they need to 38 .

It’s the kind of work that’s done every day at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in San Antonio. People who39 at its front door on the first and third Thursdays of each month aren’t looking for God –they’re there for something to eat. St. Andrew’s runs a food pantry (食品室) that 40 the city and several of the 41 towns. Janet Drane is its manager.

In the wake of the 42 , the number of families in need of food assistance began to grow. It is 43 that 49 million Americans are unsure of where they will find their next meal. What’s most surprising is that 36% of them live in 44 where at least one adult is working. “It used to be that one job was all you needed,” says St. Andrew’s Drane. “The people we see now have three or four part-time jobs and they’re still right on the edge45 .”

A) accumulate I) households

B) circling J) recession

C) communities K) reported

D) competition L) reviewed

E) domestic M) serves

F) financially N) surrounding

G) formally O) survive

H) gather

36. E 37. C 38. O 39. H 40. M

41. N 42. J 43. K 44. I 45. F

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To get a sense of how women have progressed in science take a quick tour of the physics department at the University of California Berkeley. This is a storied place the 36 of some of the most important discoveries in modern science-starting with Ernest Lawrence's invention of the cyclotron(回旋加速器)in 1931.A generation ago female faces were 37 and. even today, visitors walking through the first floor of LeConte Hall will See a full corridor of exhibits 38 the many distinguished physicists who made history here, 39 all of them white males

But climb up to the third floor and you'll see a 40 display. There, among the photos of current faculty members and students are portraits of the 41 head of the department, Marjorie Shapiro and four other women whose research 42 everything from the mechanics of the universe to the smallest particles of matter. A sixth woman was hired just two weeks ago. Although they're still only about 10 percent of the physics faculty, women are clearly a presence here. And the real 43 may be in the smaller photos to the right graduate and undergraduate students about 20 percent of them female. Every years Berkeley sends its fresh female physics PhDs to the country's top universities. That makes Shapiro optimistic but also 44 "I believe things are getting better "she says "but they're not getting better as 45 as i would like."

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To understand why we should be concerned about how young people read, it helps to know something about the way the ability to read evolved. Unlike the ability to understand and produce spoken language, the ability to read must be painstakingly 36 by ea ch individual. The “reading circuits” we construct in the brain can be

37 or they can be robust, depending on how often and how 38 we use them.

The deep reader enters a state of hypnotic trance (心醉神迷的状态). When readers are enjoying the experience the most, the pace of their reading 39 slows.

The combination of fast, fluent decoding of words and slow, unhurried progress on the page gives deep readers time to enrich their reading with reflection and analysis. It gives them time to establish an 40 relationship with the author, the two of them

41 in a long and warm conversation like people falling in love.

This is not reading as many young people know it. Their reading is instrumental:

the difference between what literary critic Frank K ermode calls “carnal (肉体的)reading” and “spiritual reading.” If we allow our offspring to believe carnal reading is all there is —if we don’t open the door to spiritual reading, through an early 42 on discipline and practice —we will have 43 them of an enjoyable experience they would not otherwise encounter. Observing young people’s 44 to digital devices, some progressive educators talk about “meeting kids where they are,” molding instruction around their onscreen habits. This is mistaken. We n eed,

45 , to show them someplace they’ve never been, a place only deep reading can take them.

A) acquired I) intimate

B) actually J) notwithstanding

C) attachment K) petition

D) cheated L) rather

E) engaged M) scarcely

F) feeble N) swayed

G) illicit O) vigorously

H) insistence

AFOBI EHDCL

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Quite often, educators tell families of children who are learning English as a second language to speak only English, and not their native language, at home. Although these educators may have good (36) , their advice to families is