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Module 3 Sport and health
Unit 6 Caring for your health
Unit 6素能测评
一、 语法选择(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,从每小题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。
Junk Food! Bad For The Wallet! A new study confirms what you may already know: Few things can stop us 1 hunting down the foods we really like.
The study 2 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America and it found that people are willing to overpay for the food when they are longing for junk food.
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In one experiment, 44 respondents(调查对象) who stopped 3 for four hours were asked how much they wanted 15 different snack foods, and how much they would pay for each item out of a $5 plan. Next, each person went through a multisensory experience 4 was aimed at stimulating desire for one of three desirable foods: a Snickers bar, Cheetos or a cola. They were then asked how much they wanted that particular item, and how much they would pay for 5 .
Not only did desire increase, but the researchers also found 6 participants were willing to pay 7 average of $0.66 more for whatever they wanted. When they can choose from less similar (and thus, healthier) items, such as cereal, they were not willing to pay asmuch, 8 suggests desire for food is different from general 9 .
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In another experiment, the researchers repeated the process with 45 people. This time, however, individuals 10 choose to pay for two, three, five or eight “units” of whatever they wanted. The researchers found people were also willing to pay disproportionately(不成比例地) more for 11 quantities of whatever food they desired.
“ 12 people try to eat healthily or promote drug-free lifestyles,” the researchers wrote, “desire could overshadow(使显得逊色) the value of health by boosting the value of unhealthy 13 and drugs.”
On the bright side, however, the researchers estimated the effects 14 subjects’ desire would disappear within two hours, and 15