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  3. [A]accepting [B]analytical [C]battling [D]books [E]concretely [F]critical [G]emerge [H]express [I

[A]accepting [B]analytical [C]battling [D]books [E]concretely [F]critical [G]emerge [H]express [I

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问题 [A]accepting     [B]analytical    [C]battling    [D]books        [E]concretely
[F]critical       [G]emerge      [H]express    [I]fictional       [J]immersing
[K]positively    [L]refugees     [M]register    [N]resolutions    [O]shelves
    For authors of self-help guides, no human problem is too great or too small. Want to become fitter, richer or happier in 2015? There are books for it—【C1】______ upon shelves of them. Hoping for increased efficiency, decisiveness and creativity in the months ahead? There are titles for that, too.
    As we settle down to our New Year’s【C2】______ , we’ll turn in droves to self-help books, hoping to find our own best selves in their pages. But a book needn’t lecture to leave its imprint. The truth is that all good literature changes us, and a growing body of research suggests you might do better browsing through fiction for support in【C3】______ life’s challenges. Think of it less as self-help than "shelf help".
    Reading has been proven to sharpen【C4】______ thinking, enabling us to better discern patterns—a handy tool when it comes to the often baffling behaviour of ourselves and others. But fiction in particular can make you more socially able. Last year, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology published a paper showing how reading Harry Potter made young people in the U. K. and Italy more【C5】______ disposed towards stigmatised(使蒙上污名的)minorities such as【C6】______ . And in 2013, psychologists at the New School for Social Research found that literary fiction enhanced people’s ability to【C7】______ and read others’ emotions.
    We think of novels as places in which to lose ourselves, but when we【C8】______ we take with us inspiration from our favourite characters. A 2012 study by researchers at Ohio State University found that this process could actually change a reader’s behaviour. In one experiment, participants strongly identifying with a 【C9】______ character who overcame obstacles to vote proved significantly more likely to vote in a real election.
    They may not promise transformation in seven easy steps, but gripping novels can inform and motivate us, short stories can console and trigger self-reflection, and poetry has been shown to engage parts of the brain linked to memory. Sometimes an author helps by simply taking your mind off a problem,【C10】______ you so fully in another’s world and outlook that you transcend yourself, returning recharged and determined.
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答案M
解析 空格位于to之后，并与后面的read形成并列关系，因此推断应填入动词原形。根据句意，2013年，社会研究新学院的心理学家发现，文学小说增强了人们——并读懂他人情感的能力。动词备选项中，首先排除非原形的[A]accepting和[J]immersing，因此答案应在[G]emerge，[H]express和[M]register这三个选项中，动作的对象是others’emotions，读者显然不能express他人的情感；emerge的意思也不符合语境，因此均可排除；而register有“登记；记住；使留下印象”的意思，因此[M]为答案。
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