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Chicken Soup for the Soul：Comfort Food Fights Loneliness
Mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, may be bad for your arteries. 1 according to a study in Psychological Science, they’re good for your heart and 2 study focuses on “comfort food” and how it makes people feel.
"For me 3 ,food has always played a big role in my family,” says Jordan Troisi, a graduate student at the University of Buffalo, and lead author on the study came out of the research program of his co—author Shira has 4 non-human things that may affect human people reduce loneliness by bonding with their 5 TV show, building virtual relationships with a pop song singer or looking at pictures of loved si and Gabriel wondered if comfort food could have the same effect 6 making people
think of their nearest and dearest. In one experiment, in order to make 7 feel lonely, the researchers had them write for six minutes about a fight with someone close to rs were given an emotionally neutral writing assignment. Then, some people in each 8 wrote about the experience of eating a comfort food and others wrote about eating a new food. 9 ,the researchers had participants 10 questions about their levels of loneliness.
Writing about a fight with a close person made people feel people who were generally 11 in their relationships would feel less lonely by writing about a comfort food."We have found that comfort foods are consistently associated with those close to us."says Troisi."Thinking about or consuming these foods later then serves as a reminder of those close others."In 12 essays on comfort food, many people wrote about the 13 of eating food with family and friends. In another experiment, 14 chicken soup in the lab made people think more about relationships, but only if they considered chicken soup to be a comfort was a question they had been asked long before the experiment, along with many other questions, so they wouldn’t remember it. Throughout everyone’s daily lives they experience stress, often associated with our 15 with others," Troisi says."Comfort food Can be an easy remedy for loneliness.
词汇：
mashed /mæʃt/ adj.被捣成糊浆的
macaroni/ macaroni/ n.通心粉
cheese / tʃi:z / n.奶酪
artery/ artery / n.动脉
assignment / ə'sainmənt / n.指定作业
reminder / reminder/ n.起提醒作用的东西
remedy /remedy/ n.治疗方法，药物
virtual/'və:tʃuəl/ adj.虚拟的
注释：
ort food：爽心食品
2. graduate student：研究生
3. The University of Buffalo：布法罗大学，建校于1846 年，位于水牛城( Buffalo City) ，属于纽约州立大学，因此称为纽约州立大学水牛城分校。
4. lead author：首席作者
5. their nearest and dearest：他们最接近和最亲爱的人
6. levels of loneliness：孤独程度
7. only if: 只有(在……情况下)
8. Throughout everyone's daily lives：在每一个人的日常生活中。through 有“贯穿”的意思。
练习：
1.A but B if C though D while
2.A personality B movement C emotions D will
3.A privately B usefully C awfully D personally
4.A looked for B looked at C looked after D looked up
5.A favorite B trustful C boring D annoying
6.A with B on C by D at
7.A professors B participants C assistants D scientists
8.A group B class C section D part
9.A Previously B Formally C Initially D Finally
10.A remember B explain C rewrite D complete
11.A sad B secure C shy D angry
12.A your B our C his D their
13.A accident B harm C experience D model
14.A eating B exchanging C buying D keeping
l 5.A expressions B estimation C cooperation D connections
答案与题解：
l. A本句前半句说土豆泥、通心粉等对血管有害( bad) ，后半句说这些食物对心脏有利
(good) 。很明显，前半句与后半句意思相反，所以要选转折连接词but加以连接。
2. C 根据常识判断，吃土豆泥不会对personality (性格) ment (移动)或will (意志力)产生有利影响。随后的文章，多处提到吃爽心食品( favorite food )有助于排解孤独感。所以选emotions 是正确的。
3.D本题的答案是personally0 For me personally (就我个人而言)与下文的意思很连贯。
privately (私下地)、usefully (有用地)或awfully (可怕地)与下文的意思搭不上，所以不会是答案。
4. B 本题的答案是looked at0。“looked at non-human things” 相当于“studied (研究) nonhuman things”，与上下文的意思很匹配。looked for(寻找)、looked after (照顾)和looked
