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Research Shows Walking Can Lift Depression New research by German scientists shows that author Charles Dickens was onto a go

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问题             Research Shows Walking Can Lift Depression
    New research by German scientists shows that author Charles Dickens was onto a good thing when he took long, brisk walks to relieve periodic bouts of depression. The author of Oliver Twist and David Copperfield would walk for hours in the 1860s as an antidote to intense feelings of sadness which alternated with restless euphoria—advice
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    Aerobic exercise like rapid walking can be more effective at lifting depression that drugs, reported the scientists led by Dr Fernando Dimeo. Studying 12 people with severe depression that to bring any substantial provement. The team devised an exercise regime for the group that involved walking on a treadmill for 30 minutes every day. Intense activity lasting three minutes was alternated 42 The intensity of the training programme was stepped up____43____. A measurement of depression severity was taken at the start and the end of the programme, and patients were asked to rate their own mood regularly over a 10-day period. The researchers in Berlin found that after 10 days of the course six patients felt "substantially less depressed". The number included five 44 Two were slightly less depressed, while four others remained unchanged. Depression levels overall fell by a third5 and on the self-assessed scores by 25 per cent, said the researchers whose findings appeared in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
    The study was small but the extent of the improvement was said by scientists to be impressive. The outcome indicated a clinical benefit 45 , they said.
    Nineteenth century doctors would have called Dickens’s condition melancholia since the psychological condition of depression was unknown. Dickens biographer Peter Ackroyd says the author’s son Charles remembers his father’s "heavy moods of deep depression" and many times of "intense nervous irritability", something modern psychologists would certainly recognize.
A. who had not found any relief using drug treatment
B. with the same benefits as those produced by the drug treatment
C. with walking at half speed for three minutes
D. which could not be obtained with pharmacological treatment currently available
E. that experts from the Free University in Berlin are giving today
F. as the heart rate adapted
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答案D
解析 空白处的前一句说这次研究(的范围)虽小，但(病人病情)改善的程度却给人很深的印象，此段实际上是对研究作总结。D也是一句总结性的话：“研究结果表明，它对临床是有益处的，而这却是现有的药物治疗所达不到的”，故把它放在此处也是最恰当的。
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