Read the following text. Choose the best

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问题 Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)  Could a hug a day keep the doctor away? The answer may be a resounding “yes!”  1  helping you feel close and  2  to people you care about, it turns out that hugs can bring a  3  of health benefits to your body and mind. Believe it or not, a warm embrace might even help you  4  getting sick this winter.  In a recent study  5  over 400 health adults, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania examined the effects of perceived social support and the receipt of hugs  6  the participants’ susceptibility to developing the common cold after being  7  to the virus. People who perceived greater social support were less likely to come  8  with a cold, and the researchers  9  that the stress-reducing effects of hugging  10  about 32 percent of that beneficial effect.  11  among those who got a cold, the ones who felt greater social support and received more frequent hugs had less severe  12 .  “Hugging protects people who are under stress from the  13  risk for colds that’s usually  14  with stress,” notes Sheldon Cohen, a professor of psychology at Carnegie. Hugging “is a marker of intimacy and helps  15  the feeling that others are there to help  16  difficulty.”  Some experts  17  the stress-reducing , health-related benefits of hugging to the release of oxytocin, often called “the bonding hormone”  18  it promotes attachment in relationships, including that between mother and their newborn babies. Oxytocin is made primarily in the central lower part of the brain, and some of it is released into the bloodstream. But some of it  19  in the brain, where it  20  mood, behavior and physiology.11______A. EvenB. StillC. RatherD. Thus

选项 A. Even
B. Still
C. Rather
D. Thus

答案 A

解析 逻辑关联题。上文说的是“感受到更大社会支持的人不太可能会患上感冒”,后文说的是“使是在那些患上感冒的人中……”即,前后结构对应,含义上是一种明显的递进,所以选择Even,正确答案为A。
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