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Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are "male" and "

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问题    Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are "male" and "female" brains, believing that explains just about every difference between the sexes. A new study【C1】______that belief, questioning whether brains really can be distinguished by gender.
   In the study, Tel Aviv University researchers 【C2】______ for sex differences throughout the entire human brain. And what did they find? Not much. Rather than offer evidence for 【C3】______ brains as "male" or "female," research shows that brains fall into a wide range, with most people falling right in the middle.
   Daphna Joel, who led the study, said her research found that while there are some gender-based 【C4】______, many different types of brain can’ t always be distinguished by gender.
   While the "average" male and "average" female brains were【C5】______different, you couldn’t tell it by looking at individual brain scans. Only a small【C6】______of people had "all-male" or "all-female" characteristics.
   Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist (神经科学家), said the study is an important addition to a growing body of research questioning【C7】______beliefs about gender and brain function. But he cautioned against concluding from this study that all brains are the same,【C8】______of gender. "There ’ s a mountain of evidence【C9】______the importance of sex influences at all levels of brain function," he told The Seattle Times. If anything, he said, the study【C10】______that gender plays a very important role in the brain "even when we are not clear exactly how."
   A) abnormal B) applied C) briefly D) categorizing
   E) challenges F) figure G) percentage H) proving
   I) regardless J) searched K) similarities L) slightly
   M) suggests N) tastes O) traditional [br] 【C1】
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答案 E
解析 空格前是句子主语A new study，通读整句话可知，空格处应填入谓语动词，根据时态和主谓一致原则，此处可填入的备选项有challenges，suggests和tastes。再根据后文的questioning锁定答案为challenges，这里的challenge是动词，意为“怀疑”。故选E。
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