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Why does one person’s mouth water at the mere mention of oysters .【C1】______ someone else’s curls in disgust? Puzzling【C2】______
Why does one person’s mouth water at the mere mention of oysters .【C1】______ someone else’s curls in disgust? Puzzling【C2】______
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2010-02-26
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Why does one person’s mouth water at the mere mention of oysters .【C1】______ someone else’s curls in disgust? Puzzling【C2】______ the many reasons has left scientists feeling at times like blind men trying to【C3】______ an elephant. We are turned【C4】______ or off by the flavor, smell, texture and appearance of some food. Here, cultural biases come into【C5】______ .
We are born liking sweet tastes and disliking bitter ones.【C6】______ we learn other fondnesses and aversions. Psychologist Paul of the University of Pennsylvania assumed that we【C7】______ these things from our parents. But when he 【C8】______ the first survey on food preferences within families, he was【C9】______ to find he was wrong. Parents were proved to have no【C10】______ effect on their children’s likes and dislikes or desire to try new foods.【C11】______ he concluded that cultural background is the single most powerful influence on our tastes because it 【C12】______ us to certain combinations of foods and flavors. Americans are familiar with salmon poached or broiled and【C13】______ with lemon, while the Japanese eat it raw and garnished with ginger.
But in a recent interview, Paul was quick to point to the 【C14】______ in his theory: "There’s a lot of【C15】______ in tastes within nationalities." To be sure, not all Japanese like【C16】______ salmon, and many Americans have 【C17】______ their cultural bias against raw fish and now enjoy it. Individual food【C18】______ , Paul believes, "are【C19】______ .If you get sick on something once, you’re not【C20】______ to eat it again."
【C19】
选项
A、accidental
B、pre-determined
C、unpredictable
D、fixed
答案
A
解析
本题考查对短文的理解.上文说各种文化中对食物的选择虽有相似之处,但其中仍有许多变化下文则说一个人一旦有一次对某种食物感到恶心,他就很可能不会再吃这种食物了,因此个人对食物的选择是偶然的,正确为A。
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