Section I Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)
Could a hug a day keep the doctor away? The answer may be a resounding "yes!" __1__ helping you feel close and _2_ to people you care about, it turns out that hugs can bring a _3_ of health benefits to your body and mind. Believe it or not, a warm embrace might even help you _4_ getting sick this winter.
In a recent study _5_ over 400 health adults, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania examined the effects of perceived social support and the receipt of hugs _6_ the participants' susceptibility to developing the common cold after being _7_ to the virus .People who perceived greater social support were less likely to come _8_ with a cold ,and the researchers _9_ that the stress-reducing effects of hugging _10_ about 32 percent of that beneficial effect. _11_ among those who got a cold, the ones who felt greater social support and received more frequent hugs had less severe _12_ .
"Hugging protects people who are under stress from the _13_ risk for colds that's usually _14_ with stress," notes Sheldon Cohen, a professor of psychology at Carnegie. Hugging "is a marker of intimacy and helps _15_ the feeling that others are there to help _16_ difficulty."
Some experts _17_ the stress-reducing , health-related benefits of hugging to the release of oxytocin, often called "the bonding hormone" _18_ it promotes attachment in relationships, including that between mother and their newborn babies. Oxytocin is made primarily in the central lower part of the brain , and some of it is released into the bloodstream. But some of it _19_ in the brain, where it _20_ mood, behavior and physiology.
(1).____
A. Unlike
B. Besides
C. Despite
D. Throughout
(2).____
A.connected
B. restricted
C. equal
D. inferior
(3).____
A.choice
B. view
C. lesson
D. host
(4).____
A.recall
B. forget
C. avoid
D. keep
(5).____
A.collecting
B. involving
C. guiding
D. affecting
(6).____.
A.of
B. in
C. at
D. on
(7).___
A. devoted
B. exposed
C. lost
D. attracted
(8).____
A.across
B. along
C. down
D. out
(9).____
A.calculated
B. denied
C. doubted
D. imagined
(10).____
A.served
B. required
C. restored
D. explained
(11).____
A.Even
B. Still
C. Rather
D. Thus
(12).____
A.defeats
B. symptoms
C. tests
D. errors
(13).____
A. minimized
B. highlighted
C. controlled
D. increased
(14).____
A. equipped
B. associated
C. presented
D. compared
(15).____
A.assess
B. moderate
C. generate
D. record
(16).____
A.in the face of
B. in the form of
C. in the way of
D. in the name of
(17).____
A.transfer
B. commit
C. attribute
D. return
(18).____
A.because
B. unless
C. though
D. until
(19).____
A.emerges
B. vanishes
C. remains
D. decreases
(20).____
A. experiences
B. combines
C. justifies
D.influences
参考答案：BADCB DBCAD ABDBC ACACD
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