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Suddenly, everywhere you look, everyone’s taking cold showers. Not literally—that would be weird—but there’s no mistaking a life

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问题     Suddenly, everywhere you look, everyone’s taking cold showers. Not literally—that would be weird—but there’s no mistaking a lifestyle trend when you see one. They’re【C1】________in a new book, What Doesn’t Kill Us, which
    【C2】________the exploits of the Dutch extreme-cold enthusiast (狂热者) Wim Hof, who once spent nearly two hours in an ice bath. In The New York Times, the novelist Ben Dolnick reports that cold showers changed his "entire【C3】________ toward the outside world". The benefits include everything from【C4】________immunity to slowing ageing and fighting depression. It’s environmentally better, too, so you’ll feel the warm glow of being moral, which is fortunate, given that you’re going to be extremely bloody cold.
    As someone who has always preferred the cold, and【C5】________the way hot days are considered "good weather", I’m a natural candidate for the craze. Finding myself sleepy at 5 p.m.—having woken with the baby at 5 a.m.—I tried taking naps,【C6】________that plan, and then started jumping under icy water instead. It worked【C7】________, helping me squeeze out a few more hours of energy. When I took another cold shower before bed, I slept better, too.
    But I’ll admit there’s something a little【C8】________about this, as there is with many strategies for "breaking out of your comfort zone". What are we all trying to prove, exactly? It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that behind the desire to【C9】________over extreme cold, there’s a desire to somehow conquer yourself, since both participants in this wrestling match, as you may have noticed, are you. The far more likely result is just more【C10】________conflict.
    A) abandoned    F) exciting      K) overcome
    B) boosting     G) goal          L) recommended
    C) brilliantly  H) initial       M) resents
    D) charts       I) inner         N) self-punishing
    E) disposition  J) intelligently O) triumph
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解析 名词辨析题。分析句子结构可知，空格前面有人称代词his和形容词entire，因此需要填入名词。该处意为“冷水浴改变了他”对外在世界的整体________备选项中disposition“意向，倾向”可与toward搭配，意为“对……的倾向”，故disposition为答案。
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