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Thinking kind thoughts about yourself and your loved ones can prove beneficial for your overall wellbeing, empirical evidence has shown. Researchers carried out an investigation to explore the【C1】________between having kind thoughts and a person’s psychological state. For the study, five groups of participants were presented with a different set of audio instructions, some of which encouraged the participants to think【C2】________about themselves and others which persuaded them to think in a self-critical manner. After listening to the audio instructions, the participants were asked to answer a series of questions. These included whether they felt agitated, how likely they were to show kindness to themselves and how【C3】________they felt to other individuals. The participants who were instructed to think kindly about themselves were more likely to exhibit a bodily response associated with being relaxed and feeling safe. Their heart rates also dropped, which is a healthy sign of a heart that can respond flexibly to situations. Yet,【C4】________, those who listened to the critical audio clips were noted as having a higher heart rate and sweat response afterwards, both of which【C5】________feelings of threat and distress. Having the ability to switch off the body’s natural threat response can【C6】________a person’s immune system. This, in turn, gives them a greater likelihood of recovering quickly from illness. These findings help us to further understand some of our clinical trials research findings, where we show that individuals with【C7】________depression benefit particularly from self-awareness-based【C8】________therapy. They essentially learn to become more sympathetic to themselves. The sense is that for people【C9】________to depression, meeting their negative thoughts and feelings with【C10】________is a radically different way; that these thoughts are not facts. It introduces a different way of being and knowing that is quite transformative for many people. A) adversely I) indignantly B) amiably J) insulation C) boost K) lavish D) cognitive L) prone E) compassion M) recurrent F) connected N) signify G) correlation O) surpass H) fascinated
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【C1】
【正确答案】G
【答案解析】名词辨析题。空格前面是定冠词the，可知空格处应为名词。空格后面是介词短语between having kind thoughts and a person’s psychological state，由此可以推断空格处词义应为“相互关系”，故名词G项correlation为答案。
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【C2】
【正确答案】B
【答案解析】副词辨析题。空格前为动词think，且句子主体结构完整，故空格处应为副词，修饰 think。空格所在句意思是“研究人员向五组参与者提供了一套不同的音频指示，其中一些鼓励参与者友好地看待自己，另一些则说服他们以自我批评的方式进行思考”。根据语义，空格处所填词应该与think in a self-critical manner“以自我批评的方式进行思考”语义相对，由此确定副词B项amiably“友好地，亲切地”为答案。
【答案解析】动词辨析题。空格所在句是一个定语从句，先行词是 a higher heart rate and sweat response，关系词which后缺少谓语，因此空格处应为动词。本句意思是“听了批判性音频片段的人被发现心率加快，并在随后出现出汗反应，这两种反应都意味着威胁和痛苦的感觉。”故N项signify“意味着”为答案。
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【C6】
【正确答案】C
【答案解析】动词辨析题。空格前是动名词短语having the ability to switch off the body’s natural threat response“有能力屏蔽身体对威胁的自然反应”作主语，a person’s immune system为宾语，句子缺少谓语动词，且谓语动词位于情态动词can之后，故空格处应为动词原形。
【答案解析】空格所在处是一个介词短语 from self-awareness-based________therapy，其中self-awareness-based和空格处所填词都用来修饰名词therapy“治疗，疗法”，故空格处最有可能是名词或形容词。cognitive therapy是一个专业术语，意思是“认知疗法”，符合语境，故D项cognitive为答案。
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【C9】
【正确答案】L
【答案解析】空格所在处for people________to depression是介词短语作状语，空格处应为形容词或分词，与to depression一起作后置定语修饰people。前文提到患抑郁症的人，推测这里也是指容易抑郁的人，people prone to depression意思是“容易抑郁的人”，L项prone符合语境，故为答案。