올림포스 영어독해기본(1) 5강 변형

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

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

For example, supertasters are less likely to be fond of sweets and tend to ____ fewer 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 ____ likelihood of developing drinking problems or nicotine addiction.

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

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

Every society has its ____ “police officers” or gatekeepers who together define the fundamental cognitive orientation 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 acquisition of a library of ideas, because they are ____ to have accumulated the knowledge and wisdom of the society.

No wonder then, that the Akan of Ghana has ____ 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 ____ and fauna, elders convey knowledge to youngsters individually by telling stories, and thus overseeing their learning process.

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

Building codes can reduce the adverse ____ of hazards.

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

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

It was reported ____ 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 designed to prevent buildings from collapsing, not to maintain structural integrity of the building and ____ 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 ____ across the breadth of society, and may be ignored or not enforced.

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

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

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

All the ____ arrived nervous, as expected.

But Brooks measured whether or not having ____ change their language ― calling 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 ____ sat with their nerves and their regular self-talk.

____ results were eye-opening.

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