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If you can’t resist the chance to put on a bet, blame your insula—a region of your brain. Scientists think that when this brain

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问题     If you can’t resist the chance to put on a bet, blame your insula—a region of your brain. Scientists think that when this brain area is overactive, the heart rules our head and we can’t help but【C1】________our losses.
    The Cambridge University researchers said: "Future treatments for gambling addiction could seek to reduce this overactivity, either by drugs or psychological techniques." The researchers made the【C2】________after asking people with various brain injuries and healthy people play slot machine and roulette (a gambling game).
    A near miss on the slot machines made the players,【C3】________those with the damaged insulas, extra-keen to try their luck again.【C4】________, all of the players, apart from those with faulty insulas, made a【C5】________mistake when playing roulette. Dr Luke Clark from the University of Cambridge, who led the research, explained that during gambling games, people often【C6】________their chances of winning【C7】________a number of errors of thinking called【C8】________distortions. For example, ’near-misses’ seem to encourage further play,【C9】________they are no different from any other loss. In a【C10】________sequence like tossing a coin, a【C11】________of one event (heads) makes people think the other【C12】________(tails) is due next; this is known as the ’gambler’s fallacy’.
    There is increasing【C13】________that problem gamblers are particularly prone to these erroneous beliefs. By studying these people, the researchers found that all of them—【C14】________the exception of the patients with insula damage—reported a【C15】________motivation to play following near-misses in the slot machine game, and also fell【C16】________to the gambler’s fallacy in the roulette game.
    The finding, which is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that the insula, which is【C17】________in gut feelings and decision-making, is key to the psychology of gambling. "Based on these results, we【C18】________that the insula could be overactive in problem gamblers, making them more【C19】________to these errors of thinking," said Dr Clarke. "Future treatments for gambling addiction could seek to reduce this overactivity, either by drugs or by psychological techniques like mindfulness【C20】________."
【C6】
选项 A、forecast
B、advance
C、minimize
D、misperceive
答案D
解析 上文提到玩家会“犯错误(mistake)”，下文又用例子说明在掷硬币的游戏中，人们是会错误判断自己取胜的机会。第三段有表明赌徒尤为容易受到错误(erroneous)信念的影响。D项misperceive“误解”符合上下文的语义要求。A项forecast指根据目前迹象及手头资料预测将要发生的事，赌博不具备这种条件。玩家会有错误思维(errors of thinking)，语义色彩为贬义，B项advance“促进”不合要求。C项minimize “最小化”，上下文没有依据判断错误思维将获胜机会最小化。
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