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Passage 4
There is nothing new about TV and fashion magazines giving girls unhealthy ideas about how thin they need to be in order to be considered beautiful. What is _1_ is the method psychologists at the University of Texas have come up with to keep girls from developing eating disorders. Their main weapon against superskinny (role) models: a brand of civil disobedience _2_ “body activism.”
Since 2001，more than 1,000 high school and college students in the U.S. have participated in the Body Project, which works by getting girls to understand how they have been buying into the _3_ that you have to be thin to be happy or successful. After critiquing (评论）the so-called thin ideal by writing essays and role-playing with their peers, participants are _4_ to come up with and execute small,_5_acts. They include slipping notes saying “Love your body the way it is” into dieting books at stores like Borders and writing letters to Mattel, makers of the impossibly _6_ Barbie doll.
According to a study in the latest issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, the risk of developing eating disorders was reduced 61% among Body Project participants. And they continued to exhibit _7_ body-image attitudes as long as three years after completing the program, which consists of four one-hour _8_. Such lasting effects may be due to girls’ realizing not only how they were being _9_ but also who was benefiting from the societal pressure to be thin.“These people who promote the perfect body really don’t care about you at all，” says Kelsey Hertel, a high school junior and Body Prqject veteran in Eugene, Oregon. “They _10_ make you feel like less of a person so you’ll buy their stuff and they’ll make money.”
A) nonviolent B) notification C) dubbed D) sessions
E) purposefully F) surprising G) expired H) directed
I) positive J) casually K) notion L) proportioned
M) ambiguous N) influenced O) entities

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Passage 4
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1.[F]此处需填入名词、形容词或分词,作主语从句what is…的表语。上文提到，电视和时尚杂志向女孩传达“瘦即是美”这一不健康的观念不是什么新鲜事（nothing new）,本句与防止饮食失调的方法有关，故要选择与nothing new 意思相反的 surprising“令人吃惊的。
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2.[C]此处需填入分词，说明disobedience(抵抗)和“body activism” (身体积极分子)之间的关系。根据空格后所加的引号，可知这是disobedience的名称，故填dubbed“被称为”
3.[K]空格前的the表明此处需填入名词。空格后that引导的从句说明该名词的具体内容：只有很瘦才能够获得
快乐与成功。这是一种notion“观念”，而非notification“通知，通告”，故notion为本题答案
4.[H]空格位于are之后,可填人名词、形容词或动词分词。根据后面的目的状语to come up with and execute small…acts (以提出并展开一些小型活动)可推断,参与者应该是受到指导，才能做出后面的动作。词库中 directed—词符合语境，与are—起构成被动语态。
5.[A]此处需要填入名词、形容词或分词，与small并列修饰acts第1段末提到对付超瘦模特的主要武器是一种文明的抵抗方式(civil disobedience),根据空格后具体提到的往减肥书籍中塞纸条和给芭比娃娃的制造商Mattel写信等civil行为，可推断此处应填人与civil 意思相近的词,nonviolent“非暴力的”符合文中语境
6.[L]空格位于副词和名词词组之间,据此推断应填入形容词或分词修饰Barbie doll。芭比娃娃是“瘦”的代表，因此空格处填入的词与impossibly连用应表示否定意义，proportioned“合比例的”符合句意。
7.[I]此处填入的词与body-image一同修饰attitudes。“身体项目”的参与者展示的态度应是积极向上的，故填入positive“积极的”
8.[D]空格前的four表明此处需要填人名词复数形式，作consists of(由…… 组成）的宾语。Sessions 意为”一段时间”，填人空格表示这个项目由四个一小时的课程组成，符合句意。
9.[N] were being表明此处需要填入形容词或分词。文章开头即提到电视和时尚杂志给女生灌输瘦的错误观点，因此参与项目的女生没有受其影响或引导，才会有好的效果，故选择influenced“影响”。
10.[E]空格位于主语与谓语之间，应填人副词。上文提到这些女生意识到了哪些人从“瘦”的观念中获利，此处引用Kelsey Hertel的话,说明是他们的目的是让人买东西，挣钱。因此填入purposefully“有目的地”。