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  3. Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are "male" and "female" brains, believing that explains just about

Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are "male" and "female" brains, believing that explains just about

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问题     Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are "male" and "female" brains, believing that explains just about every difference between the sexes. A new study【C1】______ that belief, questioning whether brains really can be distinguished by gender.
    In the study, Tel Aviv University researchers【C2】______ for sex differences throughout the entire human brain.
    And what did they find? Not much. Rather than offer evidence for【C3】______ brains as "male" or "female," research shows that brains fall into a wide range, with most people falling right in the middle.
    Daphna Joel, who led the study, said her research found that while there are some gender-based【C4】______ , many different types of brain can’t always be distinguished by gender.
    While the "average" male and "average" female brains were【C5】______ different, you couldn’t tell it by looking at individual brain scans. Only a small【C6】______ of people had "all-male" or "all-female" characteristics.
    Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist(神经科学家), said the study is an important addition to a growing body of research questioning【C7】______ beliefs about gender and brain function. But he cautioned against concluding from this study that all brains are the same,【C8】______ of gender.
    "There’s a mountain of evidence【C9】______ the importance of sex influences at all levels of brain function,"he told The Seattle Times.
    If anything, he said, the study【C10】______ that gender plays a very important role in the brain—"even when we are not clear exactly how. "
A)abnormal I)regardless
B)applied J)searched
C)briefly K)similarities
D)categorizing L)slightly
E)challenges M)suggests
F)figure N)tastes
G)percentage O)traditional
H)proving
【C1】
选项
答案E
解析 动词辨析题。空格前为名词A new study，作句子主语。空格后为名词thatbelief，作宾语，因此空格处需填入动词作谓语。后半句提到，这项新的研究质疑人类大脑是否可以靠性别来区分。由此可知，空格处动词的词义应该和“质疑”的意思相近，且该动词应为第三人称单数的形式，因此E)challenges“挑战”符合句意，故为答案。备选项中有六个动词，首先根据动词形式，可以排除分词形式的categorizing和proving，以及过去式applied和searched。而suggests的意思为“暗示，建议”，和后面的questioning并无关系，故排除。
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