2020年成人英语三级考试：阅读理解练习题(49)

2020年成人英语三级考试：阅读理解练习题(49)

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 largest 1_____ hunger relief organization, has chosen September as Hunger Action Month. As part of its 30 Ways in 30 Days program, it's asking 2_____ across the country to help the more than 200 food banks and 61,000 agenda in its network provide low income individuals and families with the fuel they need to 3_____ It's the kind of work that' s done every day at St. Andrew' s Episcopal Church in San Antonio. People who 4_____ 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 5_____ the City and several of the 6 _____towns. Janet Drane is its manager.

In the wake of the 7_____, the number of families in need of food assistance began to grow. It is8_____ 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 9_____ 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 edge 10_____ "

[ A ] accumulate

[ B ] circling

[ C ] communities

[ D ] competition

[ E ] domestic

[ F ] financially

[ G ] formally

[ H ] gather

[ I ] households

[ J ] recession

[ K ] reoorted

[ L ] reviewed

[ M ] serves

[ N ] surrounding

[ O ] survive

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答案解析：

1.【答案】E

【解析】此处需填入形容词，与the nation‘s largest及hunger relief一起修饰中心词organization;此处提到“供养美国”应是美国国内最大的饥荒救援组织，所以此处填domestic(国内的)最为恰当。

2.【答案】C

【解析】根据空格前的动词askin9可知，此处需填入名词，作ask的宾语。构成固定搭配ask sb.to do sth.，从而可以把答案锁定于communities和households.根据句意，帮助200多家食品库和其网络中的6.1万所机构为低收入人群和家庭提供生存所需的食物的不可能是“全国各地的家庭”，可排除households，确定答案为communities(社区)。

3.【答案】o

【解析】根据词组need to do可知此处需填动词原形，备选项中有accumulate，gather和survive符合条件。文中they need t0…为定语从句，修饰fuel，可理解为they needthefuelto…，食物应该是用以生存，符合低收入个人和家庭的特点，accumulate意为“增加，积聚”，gather意为“聚集”。故选survive“活下来，幸存”。

4.【答案】H

【解析】此处为wh0引导的定语从句，从句中缺少谓语，所以需填入谓语动词。因为先行词people为复数，且从后文的each month判断出时态为一般现在时，所以这里应该用动词原形。survive语义不符，可以排除。此处语义上指人“聚集”，用9ather.而accumulate指事物量的增加，强调“经过一段比较长的时间由少到多的积累”，不适合用于此处。

5.【答案】M

【解析】根据句子结构判断从句中缺少谓语动词，所以需填入谓语动词。因为先行词a food pantry为单数名词，且整句话都为现在时(runs为现在时)，所以谓语动词应该用第三人称单数形式。在选项中，只有selves“接待，服务”符合条件，填入文中意为“这个食品室向整个城市和周边几个城镇供应(食物)”。

6.【答案】N

【解析】空格位于the与名词towns之间，此处需填人形容词，修饰towns.上文提到人们聚集到这个地方，因此这家食品室应该只是供应本地居民，所以排除domestic(国内的)，语义上填人surrounding更合适，指“周边几个城镇”。

7.【答案】J

【解析】从句子结构分析，介词0f后应用名词或动名词作其宾语，故此处需填入名词作短语的中心词。词组in the wake of意为“随着…的到来”，即上下旬意为“随着——的到来，需要食品援助的家庭数量开始增加”，由此可推断应该是经济萧条造成的，因此选recession(经济萧条不景气)语义相符。

8.【答案】K

【解析】下文用具体数据49 million讲现存问题，应该断定这个事实是根据报道得来的。It is reported that…是常用句型，意为“据报道…”，故应选reported.

9.【答案】I

【解析】空格位于介词in和where引导的定语从句之间，由此判断出空格处需填入一个表示地点的名词作定语从句先行词，根据上文出现的families可知此段讲的是家庭，此处语义应与families相近，故选households，表示家庭。

10.【答案】F

【解析】从句子结构角度分析，此句结构完整，所以空格处应填入一个副词作状语。根据上文可知，本句中的The people及they均指的是虽然有三四份兼职，但仍“需要食物救助的人”，可判断出他们经济状态困窘，故选financially，表示经济上、财政上处于边缘水平。

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