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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
【C4】
选项
答案K
解析 名词辨析题。空格前为形容词gender-based，且整句话是there are…句型，因此空格处需填入名词，且为复数形式。空格所在句意为：作为此项研究的领导者，达夫纳·乔尔发现虽然有一些基于性别的——，但很多不同种类的大脑并不能靠性别来区分。while在句中表示“虽然，尽管”，根据逻辑关系可推测，空格处名词应为similarities，意思为“相似之处”，故K)similarities为答案。备选项中的名词，首先可以排除单数形式的figure和percentage，而tastes的意思为“品味”，与句意不符，故排除。
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