My Space and other Web sites have unleashed a potent new phenomenon of social networking in cyberspace,【1】at the same time, a gr

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问题     My Space and other Web sites have unleashed a potent new phenomenon of social networking in cyberspace,【1】at the same time, a growing body of evidence is suggesting that traditional social【2】play a surprisingly powerful and under-recognized role in influencing how people behave.
    The latest research comes from Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, at the Harvard Medical School, and Dr. James H. Fowler, at the University of California at San Diego. The【3】reported last summer that obesity appeared to【4】from one person to another【5】social networks, almost like a virus or a fad. In a follow-up to that provocative research, the team has produced【6】findings about another major health【7】: smoking. In a study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, the team found that a person’s decision to【8】the habit is strongly affected by【9】other people in their social network quit—even people they do not know. And, surprisingly, entire networks of smokers appear to quit virtually【10】.
    For【11】of their studies, they【12】of detailed records kept between 1971 and 2003 about 5,124 people who participated in the landmark Framingham Heart Study.  Because many of the subjects had ties to the Boston suburb of Framingham, Mass. , many of the participants were【13】somehow—through spouses, neighbors, friends, co-workers—enabling the researchers to study a network that【14】12,067 people.
    Taken together, these studies are【15】a growing recognition that many behaviors are【16】by social networks in【17】that have not been fully understood. And【18】may be possible, the researchers say, to harness the power of these networks for many【19】, such as encouraging safe sex, getting more people to exercise or even【20】crime.

选项 A、consequent
B、controversial
C、similar
D、diffident

答案C

解析 本题要求考生判断空格处应填入的适当的形容词,修饰两位研究者就后续研究所发布的结果。通过对比上下文可以得知,上文提及交际圈对肥胖症的传播作用;下文提及戒烟行为也受交际圈的影响,即戒烟行为也在交际圈中传播。因此可以判定研究者去年夏天和上星期公布的两个研究结果是相似的,都肯定了交际圈的影响作用,因此C选项similar(相似的)符合题意。
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