单选题
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Comfort Food Fights Loneliness

Mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, may be bad (51) your arteries, but according to a study in Psychological Science, they're good for your heart and emotions The study focuses on "comfort food" and (52) it makes people feel.
"For me personally, food has always (53) a big role in my family, " says Jordan Troisi, a graduate student at the University of Buffalo, and lead author on the study. The study came out of the research program of his co-author Shira Gabriel. It has looked at non-human things (54) may affect human emotions. Some people reduce loneliness (55) bonding with their favorite TV show, (56) virtual relationships with a pop song singer or looking at pictures of loved ones. Troisi and Gabriel wondered if comfort food could have the same effect by making people think of their nearest and dearest.
In one experiment, (57) make participants feel lonely, the researchers had them write for six minutes about a fight with (58) close to them. Others were given an emotionally neutral writing assignment. Then, some people in each group wrote about the experience of eating a comfort food and others wrote about eating a new food. (59) , the researchers had participants complete questions about their levels of loneliness.
Writing about a fight with a close person made people feel (60) . But people who were generally secure in their relationships would feel less lonely by writing about a comfort food. "We have found that comfort foods are (61) associated with those close to us, " says Troisi. "Thinking about or consuming these foods later then serves as a reminder of those close others. " In their essays (62) comfort food, many people wrote about the experience of eating food with family and friends.
In another experiment, eating chicken soup in the lab made people think more about relationships, but (63) they considered chicken soup to be a comfort food. This was a question they had been asked long (64) the experiment, along with many other questions, so they wouldn't remember it.
Throughout everyone's daily lives they experience stress, often associated with our connections with others, Troisi says. "Comfort food (65) be an easy remedy for loneliness. /

【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】be bad for为习惯搭配，意为“对……有害”。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】本句的意思是“他们重点研究爽心食品，以及它使人感觉如何”，故应选C。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】play a role in为固定搭配，意思为“起……作用，扮演……角色”，本句的意思是“食品在我的家庭中扮演重要的角色”。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】that在这里引导定语从句修饰things，that在从句中作从句的主语。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】文中的意思是有些人通过诸如绑定喜爱的电视节目和流行音乐歌手建立虚拟的关系或浏览亲人的照片的方式来排遣孤独，by doing sth表示“通过……的方式”。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】bonding、building、looking为三个并列的动词，由or连接，放在by后面作为人们消除寂寞的方式。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】由上下文的意思可知，研究者让被测试者用六分钟的时间写一次与最亲近的人吵架的经历，为的是让参与者感到孤独。in order to...为固定搭配，表目的。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】这里的意思是“与他们最亲近的人”，close to them放在someone后面作它的定语，someone这里为不定代词，指某人。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】本段叙述的是实验的几个步骤。第一步要一部分受试者描写与亲人吵架，其他受试者写情感上中性的话题。第二步(文中用then加以连接)将上述两组受试者中的每一组再一分为二。接下来应该是第三步了。从四个选项中寻找，只有Finally最合适，原来第三步就是最后一步了。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】由前文可知，描写与亲人吵架的经历会使人感到孤独。feel lonely表示“感到孤独”，alone指“独自一人”，这里没有孤独的意思。C、D项不符合题意，故选B。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】本句的意思是爽心食品与我们的亲人密切联系。分析句子结构可知这里应填入副词，而insistently意为“坚持地、持续地”，意思不恰当，故只有A项符合题意。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】essays on comfort food意为“关于爽心食品的论文”，A、C、D项均不符合。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】only if意为“只有(在……情况下)”，表示唯一条件，整句话的意思是“这只有在他们把鸡汤认为是爽心食品的时候才会发生”。if only意为“要是、要是……该多好”，表示美好愿望，常用于虚拟语气，C、D项不符合题意。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】这里考察的是时间先后顺序问题。由题意可知，参与者要求回答这个问题和许多其他问题是在这个实验很久以前，因此他们不会记得。故应填before。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】文中最后一句是总结性的话，通读全文可知文章要表达的意思是，爽心食品可能是排遣孤独的便利食品。A项太绝对、B项时态不对、C项意思不符合，故选D。