Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are "male" and

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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 [br] 【C4】

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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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