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  3. [A]pleasure[B]going[C]psychological[D]directly[E]succeeds [F]trouble[G]s

[A]pleasure[B]going[C]psychological[D]directly[E]succeeds [F]trouble[G]s

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问题     [A]pleasure[B]going[C]psychological[D]directly[E]succeeds
    [F]trouble[G]specializes[H]keep[I]mood[J]decrease
    [K]suggests[L]occasionally[M]mind[N]main[O]less
    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. " [br] 【C4】
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答案 D
解析 根据句子结构可知，空格处应填一个副词，修饰动词understood。结合句意，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[D]directly“立即；直接地”符合句意，为答案。
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