单选题     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     24    hunger-relief organization has chosen September as Hunger Action Month. As part of its 30 Ways in 30 Days program, it's asking     25    across the country to help the more than 200 food banks and 63,000 agencies in its network provide low-income individuals and families with the fuel they need to     26    .
    It's the kind of work that's done every day at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in San Antonio. People who     27    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     28    the city and several of the     29    towns. Janet Drane is its manager.
    In the wake of the     30    , the number of families in need of food assistance began to grow. It is     31    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     32    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     33    .'
    A. survive
    B. surrounding
    C. serves
    D. reviewed
    E. reported
    F. recession
    G. households
    H. gather
    I. formally
    J. financially
    K. domestic
    L. competition
    M. communities
    N. circling
    O. accumulate
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【正确答案】K
【答案解析】文章第一句提到美国有六分之一的人在与饥饿作斗争。为了让明天变得更好一些,美国最大的 ______ 饥饿救济组织“供养美国”将九月定为“饥饿行动月”。domestic意为“国内的”。跟上文的the nation's相对应,符合句意。而选项中另外一个形容词surrounding表示“周围的,附近的”,与题意不符。
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【正确答案】M
【答案解析】分析句子结构可知,空格处需填名词。根据句意推断,为低收入个人和家庭提供救济食品可能是社区的工作,只有communities最符合题意。
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【正确答案】A
【答案解析】由空格前的need to可知,此处应该用动词原形,只有survive符合语境,表示“这些低收入个人和家庭生存所必需的食物”。
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【正确答案】H
【答案解析】根据句子结构,who后面引导的定语从句修饰先行词people,该定语从句中缺少谓语动词;根据下文的“人们在教堂大门前寻求食物”判断,只有gather最合适,表示“聚集”。
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【正确答案】C
【答案解析】空格所在的定语从句中缺少谓语,因为先行词是单数名词,所以此处应该用动词的第三人称单数形式。根据句意判断应填serves,此处意为“圣安德鲁圣公会教堂管理着一个食品室,这个食品室为圣安东尼奥和一些 ______ 城镇提供服务”。
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【正确答案】B
【答案解析】根据句子结构,前面有冠词修饰,后面有名词,说明此处应该填形容词。根据句意可知,surrounding最合适,意为“周围的,附近的”。
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【正确答案】F
【答案解析】根据下文的“需要粮食援助的家庭开始增多”。可以判断此处应该是一种不好的情况。综合考虑只有recession最合适,表示“经济衰退”。
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【正确答案】E
【答案解析】空后是that引导的主语从句,空处所填词与前面的is共同作谓语。主语从句给出了一种情况的具体数据。所以用It is reported that...“据报道……”最为合适。
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【正确答案】G
【答案解析】空前是介词,所以此处应该填一个名词;空后是where 引导的定语从句,因此所填词应该是与地点有关的,由此判断只有households最合适,意为“家庭”。
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【正确答案】J
【答案解析】介词短语on the edge表示“在某事物的边缘;在某方面比较窘迫”。文章提到,现在我们看到有三四份兼职的人们仍处于______的边缘,很容易判断出应该填financially一词。意为“在经济方面”,说明他们的经济情况依旧很窘迫。