올림포스 영어독해기본(1) 5강 변형

Supertasters and nontasters respond similarly to many ____ but supertasters are more sensitive to certain sweet and bitter substances.

These differences in ____ sensitivity influence people’s eating habits in ways that can have repercussions for their physical health.

For example, supertasters are less likely to be fond of sweets and tend to consume fewer high-fat foods, ____ of which are likely to reduce their risk for cardiovascular disease.

Supertasters also tend to react more negatively to alcohol and smoking, thereby reducing ____ likelihood of developing drinking problems or nicotine addiction.

The only health disadvantage identified for supertasters thus far is that they respond ____ negatively to many vegetables, which seems to hold down their vegetable intake.

____ however, supertasters tend to have better health habits than nontasters, thanks to their strong reactions to certain tastes.

Every society has its cognitive “police officers” or gatekeepers who together define the fundamental cognitive ____ of the people and principally oversee the approved characterization and the defense of the societal norms.

Among traditional African societies, this policing or gatekeeping role is performed mostly by the adult members through the ____ of a library of ideas, because they are believed to have accumulated the knowledge and wisdom of the society.

No wonder then, that the Akan of Ghana has wise sayings and proverbs, such as ____ time an elderly dies it is as if a library had burned down.”

In addition to acting as guides to the ____ and its flora and fauna, elders convey knowledge to youngsters individually by telling stories, and thus overseeing their learning process.

There is also a ____ of filial piety, the respect for the elderly that is equated with wisdom.

Building codes can reduce the adverse ____ of hazards.

____ example, hurricane clips may prevent roofs from detaching from buildings during the high winds of passing tropical cyclones and thus prevent rain damage.

However, as with ____ structures, building codes have their limitations.

It was reported that in the wake of Hurricane Andrew, which struck South Florida in 1992, officials realized ____ strict building codes would not prevent serious damage.

Furthermore, earthquake codes are typically designed to prevent ____ from collapsing, not to maintain structural integrity of the building and ensure habitability after a large earthquake.

This policy increases human survival rates in ____ but is less effective in reducing the economic impact.

Furthermore, building codes are ____ offspring of public policy, and policy is vulnerable to inequity in its application across the breadth of society, and may be ignored or not enforced.

Harvard ____ professor Alison Wood Brooks has done studies that show how stress and anxiety change based on what we tell ourselves.

____ experiment sounds like a blast or a nightmare, depending on your perspective.

She took a group of subjects with stage fright to a crowded bar with a stage and had them get up there ____ sing.

____ the subjects arrived nervous, as expected.

But ____ measured whether or not having them change their language ― calling their nerves “excitement” ― made any difference.

____ had one nervous group tell themselves over and over, “I am excited,” and tested them against a control group who just sat with their nerves and their regular self-talk.

The ____ were eye-opening.

The decision to tell themselves that the feeling they were experiencing was excitement helped ____ convert the energy into something positive, even useful.