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No wonder it’s so difficult to kick the habit: smokers who watch movie stars
No wonder it’s so difficult to kick the habit: smokers who watch movie stars
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2023-09-04
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No wonder it’s so difficult to kick the habit: smokers who watch movie stars【C1】______up cigarettes on screen simultaneously activate the same task. Previous studies have shown that watching screen smoking【C2】______parts of the brain, but the new research is the first to show that the【C3】______act of lighting up becomes automatic too. " What is particularly【C4】______about these findings is that viewing movie smoking activated part of the brain【C5】______in understanding and planning actions," says lead author Dylan Wagner of Dartmouth College in Hanover.
Wagner scanned the brain of 17 smokers and an equal number of【C6】______while they viewed scenes from the film Matchstick Men (《火柴人》), which included several clips of【C7】______lighting up. The volunteers were unaware that their reactions【C8】______smoking were being analyzed.【C9】______in smokers did Wagner see activation of parts of the brain vital for goal-directed hand actions. The findings were closely related【C10】______the earlier work showing that smokers had【C11】______desire to smoke after they’d watched movies.
" I believe people should simply be【C12】______that exposing themselves to subtle hint of smoking, like those in a movie, may have a(n)【C13】______on their desire to smoke," says Wagner. "【C14】______kids starting to smoke to adults struggling to【C15】______,the tobacco industry benefits hugely from smoking on screen," says Stanton Glantz of the University of California. " This new study【C16】______the biology to the behavior, and is a big step【C17】______in our understanding. The question is whether the motion picture industry will keep doing big tobacco’s dirty work. "
A study in 2003 showed that the movie industry was the biggest【C18】______prompting teenagers to begin smoking. And in 2008, a study revealed that【C19】______companies in the 1950s had【C20】______paid big stars to promote their products. [br] 【C11】
选项
A、decreased
B、increased
C、deduced
D、shown
答案
B
解析
动词辨义。本句意为“吸烟者看了电影之后吸烟的欲望会增长”。故答案为B)increased。A)decreased“降低”、C)deduced“推论,演绎”、D)shown“表现出”均不符合题意。
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