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It’s our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday activity,

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问题     It’s our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday activity, after work and sleep, in many parts of the world. Americans view five hours of TV each day, and while we know that spending so much time sitting【C1】______can lead to obesity(肥胖症)and other diseases, researchers have now quantified just how【C2】______being a couch potato can be.
    In an analysis of data from eight large【C3】______published studies, a Harvard-led group reported in the that for every two hours per day spent channel【C4】______, the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes Journal of the American Medical Association(糖尿病)rose 20% over 8. 5 years, the risk of heart disease increased 15% over a【C5】______, and the odds of dying prematurely【C6】______13% during a seven-year follow-up. All of these【C7】______are linked to a lack of physical exercise. But compared with other sedentary(久坐的)activities, like knitting, viewing TV may be especially【C8】______at promoting unhealthy habits. For one, the sheer number of hours we pass watching TV dwarfs the time we spend on anything else. And other studies have found that watching ads for beer and popcorn may make you more likely to【C9】______them.
    Even so, the authors admit that they didn’t compare different sedentary activities to【C10】______whether TV watching was linked to a greater risk of diabetes, heart disease or early death compared with, say, reading.
A)climbed I)previously
B)consume J)resume
C)decade K)suffered
D)determine L)surfing
E)effective M)term
F)harmful N)terminals
G)outcomes O)twisting
H)passively [br] 【C8】
选项
答案 E
解析 形容词辨析题。空格位于副词和介词之间，be动词之后，所以应填入形容词。空格前一句提到，所有上述结果都与缺乏体育锻炼有关。本句进行转折，指出与其他久坐不动的行为比起来，看电视可能在促成不健康的习惯方面尤其——。由句意可推断出，看电视可能在使人们养成不健康的习惯方面尤其有效，因此答案是E)effective。
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