올림포스 영어독해기본(1) 5강 변형

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Among traditional African societies, this policing or gatekeeping role ____ performed mostly by the adult members through the acquisition 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 ____ Ghana has wise sayings and proverbs, such as “Each time an elderly dies it is as if a library had burned down.”

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

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

Building codes can reduce the adverse ____ of hazards.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brooks’s experiment sounds like a blast or a nightmare, depending on your ____

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

All the ____ arrived nervous, as expected.

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

She 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 ____ regular self-talk.

The results ____ eye-opening.

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