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No wonder it’s so difficult to kick the habit: smokers who watch movie stars

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问题     No wonder it’s so difficult to kick the habit: smokers who watch movie stars【C1】______up cigarettes on screen simultaneously activate the same task. Previous studies have shown that watching screen smoking【C2】______parts of the brain, but the new research is the first to show that the【C3】______act of lighting up becomes automatic too. " What is particularly【C4】______about these findings is that viewing movie smoking activated part of the brain【C5】______in understanding and planning actions," says lead author Dylan Wagner of Dartmouth College in Hanover.
    Wagner scanned the brain of 17 smokers and an equal number of【C6】______while they viewed scenes from the film Matchstick Men (《火柴人》), which included several clips of【C7】______lighting up. The volunteers were unaware that their reactions【C8】______smoking were being analyzed.【C9】______in smokers did Wagner see activation of parts of the brain vital for goal-directed hand actions. The findings were closely related【C10】______the earlier work showing that smokers had【C11】______desire to smoke after they’d watched movies.
    " I believe people should simply be【C12】______that exposing themselves to subtle hint of smoking, like those in a movie, may have a(n)【C13】______on their desire to smoke," says Wagner. "【C14】______kids starting to smoke to adults struggling to【C15】______,the tobacco industry benefits hugely from smoking on screen," says Stanton Glantz of the University of California. " This new study【C16】______the biology to the behavior, and is a big step【C17】______in our understanding. The question is whether the motion picture industry will keep doing big tobacco’s dirty work. "
    A study in 2003 showed that the movie industry was the biggest【C18】______prompting teenagers to begin smoking. And in 2008, a study revealed that【C19】______companies in the 1950s had【C20】______paid big stars to promote their products. [br] 【C9】
选项 A、But
B、And
C、Only
D、Or
答案 C
解析 连词辨义。本句意为“Wagner只在吸烟者身上看到了部分大脑的反应对于有目的的手部动作极其重要”。本句为only引导的倒装句，only表示“只，仅仅”，意与不吸烟者形成对比。故答案为C)Only。
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