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To bring the tofu, or not bring the tofu? It’s a question that Genevieve Hartman has been rolling over in her mind for some time

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问题     To bring the tofu, or not bring the tofu? It’s a question that Genevieve Hartman has been rolling over in her mind for some time now. The 28-year-old vegetarian will be spending Thanksgiving at her boyfriend’s professor’s house in New York City. Thanksgiving used to be one of Hartman’s favorite holidays, when she celebrated it with her vegetarian family in San Francisco. But ever since she moved to New York five years ago and began spending the holiday with relatives or friends, it’s been a source of anxiety.【R1】______
    The number of vegetarians in the United States has doubled over the past 10 years, according to polls by the Vegetarian Resource Group, and now stands somewhere around 4.7 million. Freezer aisles at grocery stores stock a growing selection of man-made meat products, from tofu buffalo wings to soy-based kielbasa. Veggie burgers have become a common fixture at barbecues.【R2】______It’s the one holiday, Turkey Day, that’s so strongly associated with meat that not participating seems almost unpatriotic.
    【R3】______Between the mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, candied yams and plenty of desserts, you can usually find a way to stuff yourself silly. Instead, the vegetarian frustration is with the flurry of questions that follow saying "no thank you" to the turkey.
    【R4】______ Many of their hosts find accommodating vegetarian stressful because they’re used to working with such a set Thanksgiving menu. "My step-mother didn’t know a vegetarian and definitely didn’t like it," says Mollie Marti, 42, who married into an Iowa farm family. " It was more of the unknown that was uncomfortable for her than it was her judging. There was a nervousness on both sides. " The key to a successful Thanksgiving, Marti says, has been communication about what she eats and what she doesn’t.
    【R5】______ "Memories based on sight and sound are relatively absent of strong emotional evocation," says Thomas F. Shipley, a psychology professor at Temple University. "But because of the way the brain is wired, smells directly evoke emotions. So the thought is that with something like Thanksgiving, where you may have been eating the same foods and smelling the same smells since you were a child, it will evoke very strong emotional memories from earlier in life. "
    And sometimes, Thanksgiving tensions can turn into their own family tradition. Shelley Frost became a vegetarian over 20 years ago, on Thanksgiving Day 1986. The 47-year-old videogra-pher received the typical jeering and questioning from her family, largely from her cousin Bryan. She even skipped the family dinner a few years ago, trading in the turkey and the taunting for a Japanese restaurant with plenty of vegetarian options. But something didn’t feel right. "Honestly, at this point, it would be weird if Thanksgiving didn’t include Bryan making every lame joke he can think of, pushing me in the ribs," says Frost. "Who else but your family can make fun of you like that?" That’s a holiday custom that no Tofurkey could ever replace.
[A]But many vegetarians, particularly those who are the only one in a large family, say Thanksgiving has become that one day of the year where they’re reminded that they are indeed in the minority, a mere 2 percent of a meat-eating society.
[B]The problem isn’t necessarily a lack of food.
[C]Take the tofu dilemma: on the one hand, she doesn’t want to get stranded at a turkey-heavy table without anything to eat, which might make her hosts feel bad.
[D]Longstanding dining traditions like the Thanksgiving turkey may be particularly difficult to depart from because their associated with such distinct smells.
[E]For some kids in the U. S. recent years’ Thanksgiving, dinner has been a bit different. They have sweet potatoes and tofurkey on that day.
[F]Vegetarians aren’t the only ones anxious over next Thursday’s festivities.
[G]Mollie Marti said,"I’m not saying you need to become a vegetarian. I’m saying that small steps, taken a few weeks at a time, makes the process much easier. I’ve done it with meat, with fried foods, with sweets, with eating more fruits and whole grains, and many other food changes, and it’s worked every time. "
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答案B
解析 [B]内容较为抽象，给出的信息量很少，只告诉我们这个问题并不一定是缺乏食物。但还是有一个关键的信息词：food，通读全文，只有第3题后面提到很多吃的东西，并且强调随便填饱肚子并不困难，由此可以初步判定本题答案是[B]。然后考生再根据该题上下文的语义判断，显然该项符合此处上下文逻辑及语义关系，故为本题答案。
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