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I’m notorious among my friends for being an early-morning exerciser—you know, the annoying person who bounces right out of bed b

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问题     I’m notorious among my friends for being an early-morning exerciser—you know, the annoying person who bounces right out of bed before the alarm goes off(I have never hit the snooze button in my life), jumps into her running shoes, and is out the door for a run, swim, or bike ride before Matt Lauer is into his first cup of coffee.【R1】______The trouble is, I usually end up putting them off until after work, and then until the next day, when the entire cycle repeats itself.
    【R2】______But now that I’m putting down the hammer and getting back into a workout routine, I’m finding that it can be hard to motivate myself to actually, you know, work out. So I decided to check out whether technology offers any better answers than simply putting a Post-it on my computer.
    Using text messaging, phone messages, and E-mail to motivate people to better health behavior is a hot topic, it turns out. Researchers in Scotland, for example, are using a test-messaging system called Sweet Talk to remind teens with type 1 diabetes to take their insulin. Text messages have also been used to remind people to take their medications and help them quit smoking and have been studied to follow up with bulimia patients.
    【R3】______Or send a delayed E-mail message to yourself, an option available in some E-mail programs, including Microsoft Outlook. Or use a Web-based service to remind yourself via text messages or E-mail; Google Calendar and OhDontForget. com both allow you to program in text messages to yourself.
    【R4】______(Sweet Talk alone didn’t improve blood sugar levels in the absence of intensive insulin therapy, while the bulimics studied found the automated messages were impersonal.)In that case, it’s a personal touch that may matter most. Researchers at Ohio State University Medical Center are studying postmenopausal women who are overweight and don’t exercise, thus putting them at higher risk for breast cancer. They’re giving each woman a pedometer and a goal of working up to 10,000 steps a day. But one group of women in the 12-week study will get daily automated voice messages reminding them to work out, while the other will get both voice messages and calls from a real live person—a coach. The hypothesis is that the ones who speak to a real person will better stick to their goals(and possibly prevent cancer).
    【R5】______Tom Holland, a Darien, Conn-based exercise physiologist who coaches and trains people ranging from Ironman, triathletes to fitness newbies, says one of his clients is trying to lose weight as her main goal. "I send her a little message every day when she’s not expecting it," he says. "It may just say ’You can do it,’ but it really, really works. It shows that someone took time out and is thinking about them and is on their side. "
    I’m experimenting with Google Calendar for the reminders. And for face-to-face motivation, I’ve instructed my boyfriend to harass me to go running at least every other day, while he’s told me to make sure he plays basketball at least as often. I’ll tell you how it goes. Got a great way— high-tech or low—of reminding or motivating yourself to work out? Please share it.
[A]I won’t lie; it’s been really, really nice to relax.
[B]To motivate yourself, try an online calendar, like Google Calendar, that you can program to remind yourself to work out.
[C]Now, though, I’m recovering from various injuries and taking a break from heavy training, and I’ve discovered the joys of sleeping past 7:30 and putting off my workouts until my lunch break.
[D]Personal trainers and coaches have already cottoned on to this idea.
[E]What impact can mobile phones have on their users’ health? Many people worry about the supposed ill effects caused by radiation from handsets and base stations, despite the lack of credible evidence of any harm.
[F]But if you need a reason to exercise, not just a reminder, you may require a bit more than an automated message.
[G]Dr Franklin and her colleagues devised a system called Sweet Talk, which sends patients personalized text messages reminding them of the treatment goals they have set themselves, and allowing them to send questions to doctors.
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答案A
解析 作者在上文中指出自己在改变了生活和工作习惯后非常不习惯。本题解题难度稍大，但是考生应该想到，如果不习惯，可以改回原来的时间表。在第2题后面，作者就提到了回到原来的作息时间表的问题(getting back into a workout rootine)。[A]指出“休息真的真的很享受”，其中的nice与上文中的joys属于同义替换，刚好和下文的内容形成对比，符合逻辑习惯，故[A]是本题答案。
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