Even if families don’t sit down to eat together as frequently as before, millions of Britons will nonetheless have got a share this weekend of one of that nation’s great traditions: the Sunday roast. (1)_____ a cold winter’s day, few culinary pleasures can (2)_____  it. Yet as we report now, the food police are determined that this (3)_____ should be rendered yet another guilty pleasure (4)_____ to damage our health.

    The Food Standards Authority (FSA) has (5)_____ a public warning about the risks of a compound called acrylamide that forms in some foods cooked (6)_____ high temperatures. This means that people should (7)_____ crisping their roast potatoes, reject thin-crust pizzas and only (8)_____ toast their bread. But where is the evidence to support such alarmist advice? (9)_____ studies have shown that acrylamide can cause neurological damage in mice, there is no (10)_____ evidence that it causes cancer in humans.

    Scientists say the compound is (11)_____ to cause cancer but have no hard scientific proof. (12)_____ the precautionary principle, it could be argued that it is (13)_____ to follow the FSA advice. (14)_____, it was rumoured that smoking caused cancer for years before the evidence was found to prove a (15)_____.

    Doubtless a piece of boiled beef can always be  (16)_____ up on Sunday alongside some steamed vegetables, without the Yorkshire pudding and no wine. But would life be worth living? (17)_____, the FSA says it is not telling people to cut out roast foods (18)_____, but to reduce their lifetime intake. However, its (19)_____ risks coming across as being pushy and overprotective. Constant health scares just (20)_____ with no one listening.

答案精析：副词辨析题。上文讲到食品标准局对人们发出警告，建议人们应该少吃或不吃烤制食物，要避免把土豆烤到酥脆，拒绝薄脆披萨，并且只____烤面包。由此可知空格处的副词是用来修饰面包烤制的程度。partially表示“不完全地；部分地”，代入空格意为“不要过分烤制面包”，符合食品标准局给人们的健康建议，故A项正确。

错项排除：B项填入表示“有规律地烤面包”，C项填入表示“容易地烤面包”，D项填入表示“刚开始烤面包”，均不符合原文意思，故排除。