The Web sometimes is seemed as the Siren specter that lures us into sitting around like some species of houseplant while our trunk grows abnormally wide. Its (36) enticements keep us from doing what we know we should, like, say, any movement whatsoever or (37) foods that do not come packaged in Styrofoam (泡沫塑料).
But according to a new research, the Internet can also be something else: a place for helping people keep weight off.
The new study, (38) over a two-and-a-half-year period, found that the more often people logged on to a website, the more likely they were to (39) weight loss. Of course, it wasn’t just any old website, but one that investigators at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research (KPCHR) had designed (40) to help people keep the pounds off.
What made the website work was its mixture of accountability (责任) and (41) . Users were asked to log in once a week to (42) their weight and the amount of exercise they’d done. If they didn’t tog in regularly, they got a little nudge by e-mail, then a(n) (43) phone call. Once on the site, users could chat with other (44) of the study in a kind of mini-Facebook setting.
The site was designed to mimic as much as possible what it’s like to be in a weight-loss program that offers (45) counseling and group meetings. It wasn’t quite as effective as human-to-human interaction, but it was better than nothing at all.
A．abundant
B．attracts
C．automated
D．conducted
E．consuming
F．enter
G．establish
H．maintain
I．obligation
J．participants
K．personal
L．separately
M．sociability
N．specifically
O．warning