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  3. [A] decrease [B] directly [C] going [D] keep [E] less[F] main [G] mind [H

[A] decrease [B] directly [C] going [D] keep [E] less[F] main [G] mind [H

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问题 [A] decrease  [B] directly  [C] going  [D] keep  [E] less
[F] main  [G] mind  [H] mood  [I] occasionally  [J] pleasure
[K] psychological  [L] specializes  [M] succeeds  [N] suggests  [O] trouble
    It has long been known that high-calorie food can act as a balm (镇痛软膏) for anxiety and bad moods, but now a series of new studies published in Psychological Science 【C1】______ that high-calorie food may be a balm for economic anxiety, too, and one that we are prepared to apply whenever we perceive 【C2】______ in the world.
    In one of the experiments, people who were exposed to words suggesting tough times, like "disaster" "suffer" and "struggle", were prompted to eat more high-calorie food and 【C3】______ low-calorie food than a control group did—even though these words were in the background, on a poster, and not 【C4】______ understood. Taste didn’t come into it; neither did pleasure. "The cues I used did not change people’s 【C5】______," says lead author Juliano Laran, a University of Miami marketing professor who 【C6】______ in consumer psychology and self-control , "and I specifically found that people were not looking for pleasure, but rather for food items that can 【C7】______ them fed for longer periods of time."
    The inspiration for the studies came from New York City’s policy of posting calorie counts in restaurants, which Laran noticed did nothing to 【C8】______ the consumption of high-calorie food. "This signaled," he says, "that misinformation was not the 【C9】______ issue, that there was something else 【C10】______ on." [br] 【C6】
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答案 L
解析 根据句子结构可知，空格处缺少动词作定语从句的谓语。空格处的句子为介绍朱利亚诺．劳伦身份的定语从句，劳伦为迈阿密大学专门研究消费者心理和自控能力的市场营销学教授，此句中缺少一个能和介词in搭配的动词，以便和后面的consumer psychology and self-control连用表示劳伦研究的领域。在备选动词中，L项specializes可以与介词in搭配表示“专门从事......”，符合句意，故为答案。
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