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A new study finds that even mild stress can affect your ability to control y

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问题     A new study finds that even mild stress can affect your ability to control your emotions. A team of neuroscientists at New York University say that their findings suggest that certain【C1】______that teach people how to better control their emotions—such as those used to treat social anxiety and phobias— may not work as well during stressful situations.
    "We have long suspected that stress can【C2】______our ability to control our emotions, but this is the first study to document how even mild stress can undercut therapies designed to keep our emotions in【C3】______said senior author and psychology professor Elizabeth Phelps. "In other words, what you learn in the clinic may not be as【C4】______in the real world when you’re stressed."
    To help patients learn to【C5】______their emotional impairment, therapists sometimes use cognitive restructuring techniques encouraging patients to alter their thoughts or approach to a situation to change their emotional response. These might include focusing on the positive or non-threatening aspects of an event or【C6】______that might normally produce fear.
    To test how these techniques hold up in real-life situations, the team【C7】______a group of 78 volunteers, who viewed pictures of snakes and spiders. Some of the pictures were paired with an electric shock, and participants【C8】______developed a fear of these pictures. The subjects "reported more【C9】______feelings of fear when viewing the pictures, compared with when they viewed images not paired with a shock."
    Next the participants were taught cognitive strategies, similar to those【C10】______by therapists and known as cognitive-behavioral therapy, to learn to diminish the fears brought on by the experiment.
    A)check B)regulate C)eventually D)consequences
    E)impair F)stimulus G)bleak H)enlisted
    I)relevant J)prescribed K)therapies L)confined
    M)incidentally N)intense O)breach [br] 【C1】
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答案 K
解析 填入空格的词在定语从句(that teach people…)充当主语，可知此处应填入名词复数形式。根据后面的内容“教人们如何控制情绪”、“治疗社交焦虑和恐惧”，可以推断空格所需的名词应该与“疗法”有关，故从名词库中选用therapies。
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