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Alcohol may taste sweeter if you were exposed to it before birth, suggests a study in rats. The findings may shed new light(1)__
Alcohol may taste sweeter if you were exposed to it before birth, suggests a study in rats. The findings may shed new light(1)__
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2013-11-10
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问题
Alcohol may taste sweeter if you were exposed to it before birth, suggests a study in rats. The findings may shed new light(1)_____ why human studies have previously(2)_____ fetal(胎儿的) alcohol exposure to increased alcohol(3)_____ later in life, and to a(4)_____ age at which a person (5)_____ starts drinking alcohol.
Alcohol’s taste is a(n)(6)_____ of sweet and bitter components. To(7)_____ whether prenatal (产前的)alcohol exposure could(8)_____ the perception of these components, Steven Youngentob at the State University of New York in Syracuse and John Glendinning at Columbia University in New York(9)_____ how eagerly rats consumed alcohol, sweet water(10)_____ bitter water.
They found that young rats whose mothers had consumed alcohol during pregnancy(11)_____ alcohol and consumed more of the bitter water than the(12)_____ of mothers that didn’t consume alcohol. Rats that had been exposed to alcohol before birth also seemed to be more(13)_____ to the smell of alcohol.
Prenatal exposure seems to reduce the(14)_____ bitterness of alcohol, making it seem(15)______, says Youngentob. Both of these differences seemed to(16)_____ once the rats reached adulthood—but (17)_____ if they hadn’t tasted alcohol during their youth. If prenatally exposed rats did consume alcohol in their youth, these preferences seemed to become(18)_____ for life.
"The take-home message is to keep kids away(19)_____ alcohol for as long as possible—particularly(20)_____ they have had prenatal exposure," says Youngentob.
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选项
A、milder
B、bitter
C、slighter
D、sweeter
答案
D
解析
句子前半部分说“降低对酒精苦味的……”,等同于说对酒精苦味不太在意,因而酒精会显得更甜,故选sweeter“更甜的”。milder“更温和的”没体现出和前半句苦味的对应;bitter“更苦的”;slighter“更轻微的”。
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