2. 外语
  3. [A] decrease [B] directly [C] going [D] keep [E] less [F] main [G] mind [H] mood [I] occasionally [J] pleasure [K] psych

[A] decrease [B] directly [C] going [D] keep [E] less [F] main [G] mind [H] mood [I] occasionally [J] pleasure [K] psych

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问题 [A] decrease  [B] directly  [C] going  [D] keep  [E] less
[F] main  [G] mind  [H] mood  [I] occasionally  [J] pleasure
[K] psychological  [L] specializes  [M] succeeds  [N] suggests  [O] trouble
    It has long been known that high-calorie food can act as a balm (镇痛软膏) for anxiety and bad moods, but now a series of new studies published in Psychological Science 【C1】______ that high-calorie food may be a balm for economic anxiety, too, and one that we are prepared to apply whenever we perceive 【C2】______ in the world.
    In one of the experiments, people who were exposed to words suggesting tough times, like "disaster" "suffer" and "struggle", were prompted to eat more high-calorie food and 【C3】______ low-calorie food than a control group did—even though these words were in the background, on a poster, and not 【C4】______ understood. Taste didn’t come into it; neither did pleasure. "The cues I used did not change people’s 【C5】______," says lead author Juliano Laran, a University of Miami marketing professor who 【C6】______ in consumer psychology and self-control , "and I specifically found that people were not looking for pleasure, but rather for food items that can 【C7】______ them fed for longer periods of time."
    The inspiration for the studies came from New York City’s policy of posting calorie counts in restaurants, which Laran noticed did nothing to 【C8】______ the consumption of high-calorie food. "This signaled," he says, "that misinformation was not the 【C9】______ issue, that there was something else 【C10】______ on."
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答案B
解析 根据句子结构可知，空格处应填入一个副词，修饰动词understood。结合句意可知，那些表示艰难时期的词汇出现在隐蔽的位置，可以推断人们不会立即领会它们的意思，故B项directly“立即；直接地”符合句意，为答案。
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