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A spoon of pickles(榨菜) can sometimes make a meal taste way better. Recently, a new type of pickle is being discussed: “digital pickled vegetables”. It stands for the videos people watch while eating that make their food more delicious.
① The topic received more than 16 million clicks on Sina Weibo and about 100,000 people joined in the discussion. Instead of having a good time with friends and family during a meal, many young people in China keep their eyes on TV shows or short videos. Many believe that their food is tastier with the “digital pickles”.
② Can this habit influence your diet? According to a research paper published in 2019, you may eat more without noticing it. The international research team asked 62 volunteers to follow different eating habits on four different days. The habits included eating while looking at the mobile phone, reading magazines and without distraction(使人分心的事). After studying their diets, the team discovered that eating with a distraction increased caloric intake by about 15 per cent.
③ To find out the reason, the team invited two groups of people: one group ate while listening to sounds about another person eating and the other listened to sounds that helped them imagine themselves eating. The results showed that the second group ate less since they paid more attention to their meals. When eating with the “digital pickles”, our attention can be distracted, which leads to eating more than expected.
④ A research project led by the University of Sussex, the UK, pointed out that activities which need lots of attention trick many people into overeating. The team invited 120 people to do different tasks while providing them with drinks and snacks. “Our study shows that if you’re eating or drinking while your attention is distracted by a difficult task, it is less possible for you to tell how full you feel,” one of the researchers Martin Yeomans explained.
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)8. Which of the following is a kind of “digital pickles”?
A. Drinks.
B. Snacks.
C. Videos.
D. Tasks.
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)9. What can we know from Paragraph 3?
A. Eating with “digital pickles” may make people get fatter.
B. Reading magazines while eating is a good eating habit.
C. Different eating habits made little difference to people’s diet.
D. Volunteers were divided into four groups by the research team.
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)10. Where can you put the sentence “This works not only for eating meals but other difficult tasks as well. ”?
A. ①
B. ②
C. ③
D. ④
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)11. What is the best title for the article?
A. Finish tasks while eating.
B. Imagine yourself eating.
C. Eat less and exercise more.
D. Enjoy dinner with a show.
