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It’s our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday activity,

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问题     It’s our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday activity, after work and sleep, in many parts of the world. Americans view five hours of TV each day, and while we know that spending so much time sitting【C1】______can lead to obesity(肥胖症)and other diseases, researchers have now quantified just how【C2】______being a couch potato can be.
    In an analysis of data from eight large【C3】______published studies, a Harvard-led group reported in the that for every two hours per day spent channel【C4】______, the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes Journal of the American Medical Association(糖尿病)rose 20% over 8. 5 years, the risk of heart disease increased 15% over a【C5】______, and the odds of dying prematurely【C6】______13% during a seven-year follow-up. All of these【C7】______are linked to a lack of physical exercise. But compared with other sedentary(久坐的)activities, like knitting, viewing TV may be especially【C8】______at promoting unhealthy habits. For one, the sheer number of hours we pass watching TV dwarfs the time we spend on anything else. And other studies have found that watching ads for beer and popcorn may make you more likely to【C9】______them.
    Even so, the authors admit that they didn’t compare different sedentary activities to【C10】______whether TV watching was linked to a greater risk of diabetes, heart disease or early death compared with, say, reading.
A)climbed I)previously
B)consume J)resume
C)decade K)suffered
D)determine L)surfing
E)effective M)term
F)harmful N)terminals
G)outcomes O)twisting
H)passively [br] 【C5】
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答案 C
解析 名词辨析题。空格位于不定冠词a之后，应填入名词。分析上下文可知，本句与前一句及后一句是哈佛大学领导的小组的研究结果，另外两句的研究结果都是历经一段时间的，本句也不例外。因此，本空应填入表示时间的词，备选词中表示时间的词只有C)decade，由此得出答案。
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