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  3. New research shows girls who regularly have family meals are much less【C1】______to adopt all kinds of extreme weight control【C2】

New research shows girls who regularly have family meals are much less【C1】______to adopt all kinds of extreme weight control【C2】

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问题     New research shows girls who regularly have family meals are much less【C1】______to adopt all kinds of extreme weight control【C2】______, such as vomiting(催吐), using laxatives(泻药)or diet pills.
    A study surveying more than 2,500 American high school students found that girls who ate five or more family meals a week had a much healthier relationship with food in later life.
    The research, published in international journal Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, polled students aged 13 to 17 in 1999 who were【C3】______up five years later. Regular family meals were found to have a protective effect【C4】______of the girls’ age, weight, socio-economic status, dieting【C5】______or relationship with her family.
    Experts say doctors should encourage families to have dinner at the table instead of on the couch in front of the television to【C6】______against serious eating disorders.
    Belinda Dalton, director of eating disorders clinic The Oak House, said eating with family helped "normalise(正常化)" young people’s relationship with food.
    " When adolescents are feeling that they’re not coping they turn to something that they can control and food is something【C7】______and accessible for them to control. Clearly, if they’re sitting with their family on a regular basis then their family can be more in control of their eating," Ms Dalton said.
    " It’s about young people feeling connected with their family and that builds self-esteem and sense of worth and that can【C8】______very actively against someone developing an eating disorder. "
    An eating disorders expert, Kirsty Greenwood, said meal times were often difficult for sufferers. " It is【C9】______that they feel very ashamed of their eating habits and often won’t eat with other people. Perhaps it’s because they haven’t【C10】______the importance of the family meal in their growing up," she said.
A)available I)potential
B)behaviors J)prohibit
C)examined K)protect
D)experienced L)regardless
E)favorable M)tendencies
F)followed N)typical
G)habits O)work
H)likely
【C1】
选项
答案H
解析 less后缺少一个形容词。联系上下文可知，原文主要讨论与家人一起吃饭对于预防饮食紊乱具有重要作用这个话题，因此空格所在处应表达“可能性较小”的意思。由前文的be动词are和后文的不定式符号to推知，这里需用be likelyto do的结构，故likely为本题答案。
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