If you had to guess the organ that has undue influence on your emotions, your mood, even your choices, what would you guess? The

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问题     If you had to guess the organ that has undue influence on your emotions, your mood, even your choices, what would you guess? The brain? Sure, but what else? The heart—that【C1】________seat of the soul? Not quite. The stomach? You’re getting warmer. Would you believe it’s the trillions of bacteria—the microbiota(微生物群) —than live in your gut. Each of us【C3】________up to four and a half pounds of bacteria around in our guts at any given time. More than 100 trillion microbes live down there. That’s as many cells as make up the rest of your body.
    Now, this crowd is mostly good guys, and they do important work, to the extent that some scientists【C4】________classifying these collective microbiota as its own【C5】________. Aside from helping digest our food, they protect us from disease, neutralize some of the toxic by-products of the【C6】________process, and make it harder for bad bacteria to set up shop. In short, your gut does way more than just digest everything from Cheetos to Camembert.
    But it turns out gut bacteria may also【C7】________how we feel. Who knew the next【C8】________in mental well-being would lead right to the toilet? With that lively【C9】________in mind, we know here are various ways our microbiota are【C10】________to our mental health.
    A) advocate     F) connected    K) irreplaceable
    B) affect       G) digestive    L) mythical
    C) attached     H) frontier     M) notoriously
    D) carries      I) gathers      N) organ
    E) collectively J) image        O) result
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答案H

解析 空格位于定冠词 the 和形容词 next之后,且动词 knew之后的从句中缺少主语成分,故应填入名词作主语。上文提到肠子对人们的情绪有影响,所以作者说,谁曾想到心理健康的新领域会转移至卫生间呢,这是一种幽默的说法,故空格处应填入H项frontier“前沿,领域”。
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