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Mounting evidence shows that behavioral-activation (BA) therapy is just as ef

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问题    Mounting evidence shows that behavioral-activation (BA) therapy is just as effective as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in treating depression. Unlike CBT, BA is an outside-in【C1】______in which therapists focus on modifying actions rather than thoughts. "The idea is that what you do and how you feel are【C2】______," says David Richards, a health services researcher at the University of Exeter. If a patient values nature and family, for example, a therapist might encourage him to【C3】______a daily walk in the park with his grandchildren, which could create a(n)【C4】______to more negative pastimes such as pondering on loss.
   BA has existed for decades, and some of its elements are used in CBT, yet more【C5】______scientific evidence is needed to assess its relative strength as a stand-alone approach. In a recent study, a【C6】______of 18 researchers led by Richards put BA and CBT head-to-head. They【C7】______440 people with depression to about 16 weeks of one of the two approaches, then followed the patients’ progress at 6, 12 and 18 months after treatment began. As【C8】______in a paper published in the Lancet, the team found the treatments to be equally effective.
   In addition, Richards and his colleagues found that【C9】______health workers could provide BA after a brief training period—making it【C10】______cheaper to implement than CBT, which requires highly specialized therapists. That distinction could make the former a boon to developing countries, where resources for mental health are especially scarce.
   A) access I) regularly
   B) alternative J) revealed
   C) assigned K) rigorous
   D) collaboration L) schedule
   E) involved M) scholarly
   F) junior N) significantly
   G) linked O) technique
   H) range [br] 【C5】
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答案 K
解析 空格位于more之后、名词evidence之前，最有可能填入形容词。这句话把空格去掉，从语法和句意上来说依然通顺，这种情况一般填入表示程度的形容词。根据句意填入K)rigorous“严谨的，严格的”，意为“虽然行为激活疗法已经存在了几十年……但我们需要更为严谨的科学证据去评估其作为一种独立方法的相对优势。”M)scholarly“学术的，有学问的”不符合语境，下文提到，研究人员是通过临床医学实验得出的对比结果，并没有强调必须是学术方面的证据，故排除。
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