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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Comfort Food Fights Loneliness

Mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, may be bad for your arteries, ____1____ according to a study in Psychological Science, they’re good for your heart and____2____. “comfort food1 ” and how it makes people feel.

“For me____3____, food has always played a big role in my family”, says Jordan Troisi, a graduate student2 at the University of Buffalo3，and lead author4 on the study. The study came out of the research program of his co-author Shira Gabriel. It has____4____ non-human things that may affect human emotions. Some people reduce loneliness by bonding with their____5____ TV show, building virtual relationships with a pop song singer or looking at pictures of loved ones. Troisi and Gabriel wondered if comfort food could have the same effect____6____ making people think of their nearest and dearest5.

In one experiment, in order to make____7____ feel lonely, the researchers had them write for six minutes about a fight with someone close to them. Others were given an emotionally neutral writing assignment. Then, some people in each____8____ wrote about the experience of eating a comfort food and others wrote about eating a new food. ____9____ the researchers had participants____10____ questions about their levels of loneliness6.

Writing about a fight with a close person made people feel lonely. But people who were generally____11____ in their relationships would feel less lonely by writing about a comfort food. “We have found that comfort foods are consistently associated with those close to us,” says Troisi. u Thinking about or consuming these foods later then serves as a reminder of those close others.” In ____12____ essays on comfort food, many people wrote about the____13____ of eating food with family and friends.

In another experiment,____14____ chicken soup in the lab made people think more about relationships, but only if7 they considered chicken soup to be a comfort food. This was a question they had been asked long before the experiment, along with many other questions, so they wouldn’t remember it.

Throughout everyone’s daily lives8 they experience stress, often associated with our ____15____ with others, “Troisi says. ‘‘Comfort food can be an easy remedy for loneliness.

练习：

1．A　but B　if C　though D　while

2．A　personality B　movement C　emotions D　will

3．A　privately B　usefully C　awfully D　personally

4．A　looked for B　looked at C　looked after D　looked up

5．A　favorite B　trustful C　boring D　annoying

6．A　with B　on C　by D　at

7．A　professors B　participants C　assistants D　scientists

8．A　group B　class C　section D　part

9．A　Previously B　Formally C　Initially D　Finally

10．A　remember B　explain C　rewrite D　complete

11．A　sad B　secure C　shy D　angry

12．A　your B　our C　his D　their

13．A　accident B　harm C　experience D　model

14．A　eating B　exchanging C　buying D　keeping

15．A　expressions B　estimation C　cooperation D　connections

答案与题解：

1．A　本句前半句说土豆泥、通心粉等对血管有害（bad），后半句说这些食物对心脏有利（good）。很明显，前半句与后半句意思相反，所以要选转折连接词but加以连接。

2．C　根据常识判断，吃土豆泥不会对personality（性格）movement（移动）或will（意志力）产生有利影响。随后的文章，多处提到吃爽心食品（comfort food）有助于排解孤独感。所以，选emotions是正确的。

3．D　本题的答案是personally。For me personally（就我个人而言）与下文的意思很连贯。privately（私下地）、usefully（有用地）或awftilly（可怕地）与下文的意思搭不上，所以不会是答案。

4．B　本题的答案是looked at。“looked at non-human things”相当于“studied（研究）non- human things”，与上下文的意思很匹配。looked for（寻找）、looked after（照顾）和looked up（查找）与下文的意思搭配不上。

5．A　本句的意思是：人们为了排解孤独感，常常把自己和电视剧、流行歌曲歌手等等联系起来。选项中有四个形容词，应该选哪一个形容词去修饰TV shows呢？应该选褒义的形容词：favorite（喜爱的）或trustful（可信任的）。但对电视剧来说谈不上信任的问题。favorite最合理，是本题答案。

6．C　上一句说到，人们为了排解孤独感，常常把自己和喜爱的电视剧、流行歌曲歌手等联系起来。于是Troisi和Gabriel想，通过吃爽心食品让他们想起亲近的人，是不是也能产生同样的排解孤独感的效果呢？四个介词中只有by的词义是“通过”。其余三个介词在词义上都不合适。

7．B　选professors（教授）、assistants（助手）或scientists（科学家）不合常理，科学家选实验对象时不会选他们。participants（参与者）是本题的答案。

8．A　本题应该选group，备每一组的参与者。用class（班级）、section（部门）或part（部分）在意义上显然都不合适。

9．D　本段叙述试验的几个步骤。第一步要一部分受试者描写与亲人的争斗，其他受试者写情感上中性的话题。第二步（文中用then加以连接）将上述两组受试者中的每一组再一分为二，一些人描写吃爽心食品的经历，另一些人描写吃新食品的经历。接下来应该是第三步了。从四个选项中寻找，只有Finally最合适，原来第三步就是最后一步了。

10．D　实验的最后一步是受试者被要求书面回答10个问题。complete是答案。要求他们remember（记住）、delete（删除）或rewrite（重写）questions都不合乎逻辑。

11．B　与亲近的人争吵会引发孤独感，但是，一般来说，人们的关系若是通常处于什么状态，通过写出他们吃爽心食品的经历会降低他们的孤独感呢？一定不会是sad，shy或angry，答案应该是secure（稳定的）。

12．D　修饰essays的所有格代词在人称与数上要与they一致，所以their是答案。

13．C　“eating food with family and friends”是一种experience（经历），不会是一个accident（事故）、harm（危害）或model（样式）。很明显，experience是本题的答案。

14．A　文章中几次提到吃爽心食品有助于缓解孤独感，所以本题选eating是很自然的。其他三个选项，exchanging（交换）、buying（买）或keeping（保留）若填入句子中，与后面的宾语chicken soup in the lab连用，意思上说不通。

15．D　本题的答案是connections。其他三个选项在意思上都不合适。

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