Age, obesity, dopamine appear to influence preference
for sweet foods
肥胖话题在真题中出现过了。那么是哪些因素导致肥胖问题呢?我们今天看一看《Science Daily》(2016年6月16日)刊登的研究结果。
今天文章的有些概念性表达要注意哟?
【精选】
(1) As young people reach adulthood, their preferences for sweet foods typically decline.
(2) But a research team has found that for people with obesity, the drop-off may not be as steep, and the brain's reward system may be operating ____.
(3) The researchers studied 20 subjects with healthy weights and compared them with 24 people considered obese, each of whom had a body mass index of 30 or higher.
(4) The study volunteers were 20 to 40 years old.
【作业】
问: 今天是一个完形填空的练习。空缺部分所需的最佳单词是:
[A] invisibly
[B] indefinitely
[C] efficiently
[D] differently
【解词】
preference:n. 偏爱
obesity*: n. 肥胖症 (超纲词)
subject:n. 受试者;被研究对象
【解句】
1、第(1)句中as young people reach adulthood为时间状语从句,而their preferences for sweet foods typically decline是主句。
2、第(2)句是由and连接的并列句。and之前是found引导的宾语从句。
3、第(3)的主干为and连接两个谓语动词studied和compared的分句。在第二个分句中,过去分词短语considered obese修饰people,此外连词whom引导非限制性定语从句修饰people。
【译文】
(1)当年轻人步入成年期,对甜食的偏爱一般说来都减少了。
(2)但一个研究团队已经发现,对于患肥胖症的人们来说,减少幅度不是那么的急剧,而且大脑的报偿系统可能以不同的方式在起作用。
(3)研究者们研究了20位体重在健康范围内的实验对象,而另外24个参照对象被视为是肥胖症患者(体重指数是30或更高)。
(4)该研究的志愿者年龄在20至40岁之间。