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There is nothing new about TV and fashion magazines giving girls unhealthy i

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问题     There is nothing new about TV and fashion magazines giving girls unhealthy ideas about how thin they need to be in order to be considered beautiful. What is【C1】______ is the method psychologists at the University of Texas have come up with to keep girls from developing eating disorders. Their main weapon against superskinny (role) models: a brand of civil disobedience【C2】______ "body activism."
    Since 2001, more than 1,000 high school and college students in the U.S. have participated in the Body Project, which works by getting girls to understand how they have been buying into the【C3】______ that you have to be thin to be happy or successful. After critiquing (评论) the so-called thin ideal by writing essays and role-playing with their peers, participants are【C4】______ to come up with and execute small,【C5】______ acts. They include slipping notes saying "Love your body the way it is" into dieting books at stores like Borders and writing letters to Mattel, makers of tine impossibly【C6】______ Barbie doll.
    According to a study in the latest issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, the risk of developing eating disorders was reduced 61% among Body Project participants. And they continued to exhibit【C7】______ body-image attitudes as long as three years after completing the program, which consists of four one-hour【C8】______ Such lasting effects may be due to girls’ realizing not only how they were being【C9】______ but also who was benefiting from the societal pressure to be thin. "These people who promote the perfect body really don’t care about you at all," says Kelsey Hertel, a high school junior and Body Project veteran in Eugene, Oregon. "They【C10】______ make you feel like less of a person so you’ll buy their stuff and they’ll make money."
A) nonviolent B) notification C) dubbed D) sessions
E) purposefully F) surprising G) expired H) directed
I) positive J) casually K) notion L) proportioned
M) ambiguous N) influenced O) entities [br] 【C1】
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答案 F
解析 此处需填入名词、形容词或分词，作主语从句what is…的表语。上文提到，电视和时尚杂志向女孩传达“瘦即是美”这一不健康的观念不是什么新鲜事(nothing new)，本句与防止饮食失调的方法有关，故要选择与nothing new意思相反的surprising“令人吃惊的”。
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