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There is nothing new about TV and fashion magazines giving girls unhealthy i

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问题     There is nothing new about TV and fashion magazines giving girls unhealthy ideas about how thin they need to be in order to be considered beautiful. What is【C1】______is the method psychologists at the University of Texas have come up with to keep girls from developing eating disorders. Their main weapon against superskinny(role)models: a brand of civil disobedience【C2】______"body activism."
    Since 2001, more than 1,000 high school and college students in the U.S. have participated in the Body Project, which works by getting girls to understand how they have been buying into the【C3】______that you have to be thin to be happy or successful. After critiquing(评论)the so-called thin ideal by writing essays and roleplaying with their peers, participants are【C4】______to come up with and execute small,【C5】______acts. They include slipping notes saying "Love your body the way it is" into dieting books at stores like Borders and writing letters to Mattel, makers of the impossibly【C6】______Barbie doll.
    According to a study in the latest issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, the risk of developing eating disorders was reduced 61% among Body Project participants. And they continued to exhibit【C7】______body-image attitudes as long as three years after completing the program, which consists of four one-hour【C8】______Such lasting effects may be due to girls’ realizing not only how they were being【C9】______but also who was benefiting from the societal pressure to be thin. "These people who promote the perfect body really don’t care about you at all," says Kelsey Hertel, a high school junior and Body Project veteran in Eugene, Oregon. "They【C10】______make you feel like less of a person so you’ll buy their stuff and they’ll make money."
    A)nonviolent B)notification C)dubbed D)sessions
    E)purposefully F)surprising G)expired H)directed
    I)positive J)casually K)notion L)proportioned
    M)ambiguous N)influenced O)entities [br] 【C10】
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答案 E
解析 空格位于主语与谓语之间，应填入副词。上文提到这些女生意识到了哪些人从“瘦”的观念中获利，此处引用Kelsey Hertel的话，说明是他们的目的是让人买东西，挣钱。因此填入purposefully“有目的地”。
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