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  3. Online social networks are massively influential, yet we understand very little about the impact they have on our brains. Recent

Online social networks are massively influential, yet we understand very little about the impact they have on our brains. Recent

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问题     Online social networks are massively influential, yet we understand very little about the impact they have on our brains. Recently, scientists have found a direct【C1】______ between the number of Facebook friends a person has and the size of【C2】______ brain regions. The study also shows the more Facebook friends a person has, the more real-world friends he is【C3】______to have.
    Facebook users who have a【C4】______ of friends also tend to have smaller circles of friends in the real-world and,【C5】______ those who have thousands of friends on Facebook are likely to have larger circles offline, according to the study. The findings support the【C6】______ that most Facebook users use the site to【C7】______ their existing, real-life social relationships, maintaining or reinforcing these friendships,【C8】______creating a network of entirely new,【C9】______friends.
    The researchers scanned the brains of 125 university-aged Facebook users,【C10】______these scans to the size of their friend networks online and the real-world. Those with larger Facebook networks had larger amounts of grey matter in several regions of the brain. One of these regions, the amygdala, is【C11】______with processing memory and emotional responses. Pairing this【C12】______ another recent study, the researchers show increased volume grey matter in the amygdala【C13】______a larger network of real-world friends.【C14】______ these studies show a large network of online friends also point to an increased volume of grey matter—【C15】______ information processing occurs. In addition to brain scans, the participants were asked questions【C16】______to compare the size of their online networks to the size of their real-world networks.
    The study【C17】______ the correlation between the number of friends online【C18】______ offline. Still, it is not possible from the【C19】______to say whether having more Facebook friends makes the regions of the brain larger【C20】______ whether some people are " hardwired" to have more friends.
【C17】
选项 A、stresses
B、suspects
C、denies
D、establishes
答案A
解析 动词辨析题。句意为：研究强调线上好友与线下好友的数量具有相关性。本段是解释说明前文所讲的研究发现，指出线上线下的好友数量具有相关性，而脑部特征与好友圈的大小之间的因果关系尚不明确。因此，空格处所填动词应表示“表明”、“强调”等意义，故选择stresses。由上文易知线上线下好友的数量关系存在相关性，故表示怀疑和否定含义的词不合文意，排除suspects和denies；establishes“确立，制定”，属于人的主观行为，不符合此处表示科学发现的原意，故排除。
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