选词填空：It's our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday activity, after work and sleep, in many parts of the world

选词填空。 It’s What’s A: ___________ this B: ___________ a desk.

_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.

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

A．frozen

B．freezing

As many supermarkets grow up recenty, the local shops will_______close down.

2.He is_______to postpone his business visit to New York as he got a bad cold.

3._______online shopping is welcomed by most people nowadays due to its great convenience.

4.Credibility is_______rooted in the mind of this successful businessman.

5.Though the market analysis had not been optimistic, our turnover_______increased last year.

6.Traditional business_______meant exchange or trade for things people wanted or needed.

选词填空：actually undoubtedly permanently simply possibly likely

A.That’s because it’s easier for our brains to process concrete rather than abstract things, and the immediate hassle is very tangible compared with those unknowable, uncertain future benefits.

B.That’s because it makes their future self feel more real—making the future benefits of saving also feel more weighty.

C.That’s because our brain’s reward system is so highly responsive to our social standing.

D.That’s because the guilty pleasure helps dilute your brain’s perception of the short-term “cost” of exercising.

A.That’s because it makes their future self feel more real—making the future benefits of saving also feel more weighty.

B.That’s because our brain’s reward system is so highly responsive to our social standing.

C.That’s because it’s easier for our brains to process concrete rather than abstract things, and the immediate hassle is very tangible compared with those unknowable, uncertain future benefits.

D.That’s because the guilty pleasure helps dilute your brain’s perception of the short-term “cost” of exercising.

Section A（2016年6月英语六级卷二试题）

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.

The robotics revolution is set to bring humans face to face with an old fear-man-made creations as smart and capable as we are without a moral compass. As robots take on ever more complex roles, the question naturally_____(27). Who will be responsible when they do something wrong？ Manufacturers？ Users？ Software writers？ The answer depends on the robot.

Robots already save us time, money and energy. In the future, they will improve our health care, social welfare and standard of living. The _____(28)of computational power and engineering advances will _____(29)enable lower-cost in-home care for the disabled,_____(30)use of driverless cars that may reduce drunk and distracted-driving accidents and countless home and service-industry uses from street cleaning to food preparation.

But there are _____(31)to be problems. Robot cars will crash. A drone (遥控飞行器)operator will _____(32)someone's privacy. A robotic lawn mower(割草机)will run over a neighbor's cat. Juries sympathetic to the _____(33)of machines will punish entrepreneurs with company-crushing _____(34)and damages What should government do to protect people while _____(35), space for innovation？

Big. complicated systems on which much public safety depends, like driverless cars, should be built _____(36)and sold by manufacturers who take responsibility for ensuring safety and are liable for accidents. Governments should set safety requirements and then let insurers price the risk of the robots based on the manufacturer's driving record. not the passenger's.

A.arises

B.ascends

C.bound

D.combination

E.definite

F.eventually

G.interfere

H.invade

I.manifesting

J.penalties

K.preserving

L.programmed

M.proximately

N.victims

O.widespread