Question

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Most of us don’t think about food until we start feeling hungry, but eating is important in life. To talk about food and eating is to talk about one of the most common subjects we know. Eating is just like breathing or sleeping every day.1.

However, what, where, when, how, and with whom we eat say a great deal about who we are. Do you use chopsticks? Do you hold the knife backward? Do you chew with your mouth open?

2. They are messages even when we are not trying to say anything. Food and the ways we eat it, like clothes and the way we wear them, tell who and what we are.

3.  We usually have strong feelings about our childhood foods. Foods we learn to like in our early years probably have a special meaning for us forever because they are connected to people and things we love. Mom’s cheese or the way Dad cuts the bread crusts just right bringing up feelings of love and comfort.

People use food and eating to mark the seasons and the important moments in life (such as growing up and getting married).4.Sometimes people even explain why they eat certain things on certain days. Americans do that sort of explaining at Thanksgiving. They eat Turkey, com, and Indian pudding because their ancestors ate them at the first Thanksgiving. Those foods mean something to Americans.

As you can see, food and eating mark people’s shared experiences, but they can also mark the differences.5.

A.In that sense, we truly are what we eat.

B.It’s so ordinary that it doesn’t receive much notice.

C.People will eat different foods for different holidays.

D.Your health will be decided by what you eat.

E.We learn our eating habits very early in life.

F.The food we eat helps us grow in different ways.

G.All these eating habits say something about you.

Answer

1.B

2.G

3.E

4.C

5.A

【解析】

本篇讲述饮食与人密切关系。食物和我们吃东西的方式，就像衣服和我们穿衣服的方式，都能告诉我们是谁和我们是什么样的人。我们很早在童年就学会了饮食习惯，会对童年的食物有强烈的感情，人们用食物和吃东西来标记季节和生命中的重要时刻，食物和饮食标志着人们的共同经历和差异，吃什么东西就是什么人。

1.

根据上文“To talk about food and eating is to talk about one of the most common subjects we know. Eating is just like breathing or sleeping every day”谈论食物和饮食是我们所知道的最常见的话题之一，吃东西就像每天呼吸或睡觉；根据文句表达的逻辑关系，推断空格指吃东西太普通了，没怎么引起注意；故选B。

2.

上文“吃什么、在哪里吃、什么时候，怎么吃，和谁一起吃，这些都说明了我们是谁”；根据上文“Do you use chopsticks? Do you hold the knife backward? Do you chew with your mouth open? ”用筷子、把刀向后拿、张嘴嚼东西等这些都是指吃的习惯，推断空格指所有这些饮食习惯说明了你的一些情况，故选G。

3.

空格在段首，判断是段落的总述句；根据下文陈述“我们对童年的食物有强烈的感情，早年学着喜欢的食物可能对我们有着特殊的意义因为它们与我们所爱的人和事有关”——讲述童年的饮食；推断空格指我们很早就学会了饮食习惯；故选E。

4.

根据下文“Americans do that sort of explaining at Thanksgiving. …Those foods mean something to Americans.”美国人解释感恩节为什么吃火鸡，玉米和印度布丁为例，推断空格指人们在不同的节日吃不同的东西；故选C。

5.

根据上文“As you can see, food and eating mark people’s shared experiences, but they can also mark the differences”食物和饮食标志着人们的共同经历，但它们也可以标记出差异；根据文句表达的逻辑关系，推断空格指从这个意义上说，我们真的是吃什么东西就是什么人，故选A。