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Ⅰ 次の英文を読んで、下の設問 (1)~ (11)
の語には注が付いています。
に答えなさい。
なお、
Food is fuel. When your body needs energy, you eat. When it doesn't
you don't. It should be so simple when you think about it, but that's exactly
the problem: us big smart humans can and do think about it, (,
introduces all manner of problems and neuroses*.
Have you noticed how you always have "room for dessert"? You might
have just eaten the best part of a cow, or enough cheesy pasta to sink a
gondola, but you can manage that fudge brownie or
sundae. Why? How? If your stomach is full, how
ice cream
triple-scoop
b) eating more
even physically possible? It's largely because your brain makes an executive
decision and decides that, no, you still have room.
The sweetness of desserts
is a palpable* reward (7)that the brain recognizes and wants so it overrules
the stomach.
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uncertain. It may be that humans need quite a complex diet in order to
remain in tip-top* condition, so rather than just relying on our basic
metabolic systems to eat whatever is available, the brain steps in and tries to
regulate our diet better. And this would be fine if that was all the brain does.
But it doesn't. So it isn't.
Learned associations are incredibly powerful when it comes ( d )
eating. You may be a big fan of something like, say, cake. You can be eating
cake for years without any bother, then one day you eat some cake that makes
you vomit. Could be some of the cream in it has gone sour; it might contain
an ingredient you're allergic to; or (and here's the annoying one) it could be
that something else entirely made you throw up shortly after eating cake.
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