填空题 Passage Two Why is our appetite so powerful a driver of our behavior? If that question has long defied easy answers, it’s no wonder. Understanding a single biological unit — the heart, the lungs — is hard enough. Understanding a process as complex as appetite — one that involves taste, smell, sight, brain chemistry, gut chemistry, metabolism and, most confounding of all, psychology — is exponentially harder. Appetite mechanism is d ---|||________|||--- to understand.
【正确答案】difficult
【答案解析】本段主要讲了口味对我们行为的影响。理解一个像“口味”这样复杂的系统更困难,因为这涉及了味觉、嗅觉、视觉、大脑化学现象等。句中的关键词hard enough可以给我们提示。由此我们可以看出总结句应是说口味机制很难理解。答案为difficult。