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     26    hunger-relief organization, has chosen September as Hunger Action Month. As part of its 30 Ways in 30 Days program, it's asking     27    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     28    .
    It's the kind of work that's done every day at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in San Antonio. People who     29    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     30    the city and several of the     31    towns. Janet Drane is its manager.
    In the wake of the     32    , the number of families in need of food assistance began to grow. It is     33    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     34    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     35    .'
    A. accumulate
    B. circling
    C. communities
    D. competition
    E. domestic
    F. financially
    G. formally
    H. gather
    J. recession
    K. reported
    L. reviewed
    M. serves
    N. surrounding
    O. survive
    I. households
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【正确答案】E。
【答案解析】由Feeding America可知此为某一个组织,后面是这个名词的同位语,而该空在形容词与名词之间,用来修饰organization则应是形容词。由于circling和surrounding不能修饰organization。domestic意为“国内的”,符合句意,故答案为E。
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【正确答案】C。
【答案解析】由该题句意可知,该空应该填的是要表达需要提供帮助的组织,并且由ask...to do可知该空应为名词。communities意为“社区”,符合句意,其他备选名词与句意不符,故答案为C。
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【正确答案】O。
【答案解析】由该空可知,空格处意思为“需要食物的目的”,并且在不定式to之后,survive意为“生存”,符合句意,故答案为O。
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【正确答案】H。
【答案解析】由题可知主语为人,该句为who引导的定语从句,由于句子是一般现在时则可知该句应填入的是一般现在时的动词形式。gather意为“聚集”,符合句意,故答案为H。
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【正确答案】M。
【答案解析】由文章可知该句为一般现在时态,该空在that和the city之间可知,该空处需填入单数形式的动词。serves意为“供养……”,符合句意,故答案为M。
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【正确答案】N。
【答案解析】由空格在the和名词towns之间,可知该空需要填入形容词修饰towns。surrounding意为“周围的”,符合句意,故答案为N。
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【正确答案】J。
【答案解析】由该空的前后词可知本空需填入名词。由该句的意思可知该空需要填的是能导致需要食品援助的家庭越来越多的原因,recession意为“经济衰退”,符合句意,故答案为J。
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【正确答案】K。
【答案解析】首先由该句的意思:4900万美国家庭吃了上顿没下顿,可知该空需填入形容词或动词分词形式。因此reported符合句意,故答案为K。
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【正确答案】I。
【答案解析】由空格处可知空格处应是where引导的定语从句的先行词,则需要填入名词形式作宾语表示某一地点。而competition不能表示地点,因此households“家庭”符合句意,故答案为I。
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【正确答案】F。
【答案解析】该句句意:即使一个美国人现在有三四份兼职工作,他也仍处于边缘地带,处于句尾需填入副词作状语。由于该题说的是与金钱有关,则financially意为“经济上,财政上”,符合句意,故答案为F。