Warm People Likely to Keep Cold at Bay
Staying positive through the cold season could be your best defense against getting ill, new study findings suggest. In an ___1___ that exposed healthy volunteers to a cold or flu virus, researchers found that people with a ___2___ sunny character were less likely to fall ill. The findings, ___3___ in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, build on evidence that a “positive emotional style” can help get rid of the common cold and other illnesses. Researchers ___4___ the reasons may be both objective as in happiness boosting immune function and subjective as in happy people being less troubled by a scratchy throat or runny nose. “People with a positive emotional style may have ___5___ immune responses to the virus, ”explained lead study author Dr. Sheldon Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. “And when they do get a cold, they may interpret their illness as being less severe.” Cohen and his colleagues had found in a ___6___study that happier people seemed less susceptible to catching a cold, but some questions remained as to whether the emotional trait itself had the effect. For the new study, the researchers had 193 healthy adults to complete standard measures of ___7___ traits, self-perceived health and emotional “style”. Those who tended to be happy, energetic and easy going were judged as having a positive emotional ___8___, while those who were often unhappy, tense and hostile had a negative style. The researchers gave them nasal drops containing either a cold virus or a particular flu virus. Over the next six days, the___9___reported on any aches, pains, sneezing or congestion they had, while the researchers collected ___10___ data, like daily mucus production. Cohen and his colleagues found that based on objective measures of nasal woes, happy people were less likely to develop a cold.
A.volunteers
B.experiment
C.objective
D.believe
E.personality
F.aches
G.generally
H.style
I.published
J.previous
K.fluD.believe
L.different
【正确答案】：1.B 2.G 3.I 4.D 5.L 6.J 7.E 8.H 9.A 10.C
【题目解析】：1.冠词an修饰名词单数，答案从BEHK中选, 根据上下文提到了自愿者,答案是B(实验)
2.空格后是形容词, 那么空格填副词,修饰形容词,答案只有G-
3.从空格前后用逗号隔开, 根据分析,逗号前是主语the findings, 逗号后市谓语build, 中间部分只能是 非谓语动词短语作状语,根据主语和空格的被动关系,答案是I (被出版的)
4.空格前是名词作主语,后是宾语从句,中间少谓语动词,答案只能是D
5.空格后是形容词+名词（免疫反应），根据上下文，答案选形容词L，修饰responses ，表达人们对病毒会有不同的免疫反应。
6.形容词修饰后面名词study， 答案是J ,意思是在之前的研究中，Cohen和他的同事们发现越乐观的人越不容易感冒
7.介词of后加名词，空格后trait是名词（特征），通常情况下是形容词修饰名词，但名词同样可以做定语修饰名词，答案是E,(性格特征)
8.形容词emotional修饰名词，答案是H (风格，类型)
9.定冠词the 修饰名词 答案是A(自愿者)
10.形容词修饰名词data，答案是C (客观数据)
