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(You) Imagine (: Picture) (that) you ____(have/has/had) to hit (: strike/bump) your head _____(again/against) a wall dozens of times (: many times) just (: merely/simply) to get a meal. Your head would probably ____ (x/be) sore, right? Believe it or not (: 譯__信不信由你___), this is exactly (: surely/definitely/correctly) what (: the things or thing which or that) a woodpecker must(: has to) do every day. _____(However/Moreover/Therefore), although (: while) it pecks _____ (in/at/on) a tree numerous (number變) times (: lots of/plenty of/a number of/a lot of + times) a day, it never ____ (seem/seems/seen) to suffer (承受: bear) any ill effects, such as headaches (and dizziness暈眩). This is because woodpeckers' thick skulls ____(protect: secure; guard/prevent: stop; deter/protest 抗議) them _____(off/of/from/form) the impact (: effect/influence) of these blows. ____ (To/For 因為; 由於) explaining this, two men won (: took home) the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize for the Ornithology (鳥類學).
The Ig Nobel Prizes are organized (: are thrown/ are held/ are hosted) by the Annals (年報) of Improbable (: Incredible/Unbelievable) Research (: Study), an American magazine ____(that celebrate/that celebrates/that celebrating) the funny (: ridiculous) side (: aspect/respect/way) of science. Each year, ten groups of winnders (: laureates/victors) are ___ (awarded/awarding) prizes in different (: diverse) categories (: divisions) in ____(search/honor/celebration/pursuit ) of 對...表示敬意"research ____ (that make/that makes/that making) people laugh and then ____ (think/to think/thinking). Even though the winners (: laureates) are ___ (give/gave/given/giving) no money, many of ___ (them/whom) are still willing to ___ (attend/attending) the ceremony ____ (in/on/at) their own expenses ___ (so/because) the awards (: prizes) are often p________ed (: given/awarded/rewarded) by genuine (: true/real) Nobel laureates (: winners; victors).
One example (: case/instance) of the strange (: odd/weird) but ____ (amuse/amused/amusing) Ig Nobel research (: study) is Brian Wansink's ____(entertainment/amusement/enforcement/experiment 實驗). ___ (On/In/At) 2007, he took (得) home (獎) the Nutrition Prize ____ (to/for 因為; 由於) looking into (: investigating) the influence of visual factors (: elements) ____ (in/at/on) appetite. In his _____ (entertainment/experiment/enforcement), he used (: made use of/took advantage of) special ____ (bowels/bowls) that ____ (secret/secretary/secretly) _____ (refill/refills/refilled/refilling) ____ (them/themselves) with soup ____ (as/when/while) people were ___ (eat/eating/eaten/eats). ____ (No/Not) ___(know/knew/known/knowing) ____ (that/what) was ____ (happen/happened/happening), people kept on eating from these "bottomless bowls." As a result (: Therefore/Thus/Hence), they ended up ____(eat/eating/eaten/being eaten) 73 ____ (percent/percentage) more (: other) than____(these/those: people) ____ (eat/eaten/eating: who ate/being eaten) from normal (: regular/common/usual/standard) ones (: bowls). From this ____ (income/outcome: result), Wansink ___ (included/concluded: came to the conclusion) (that) people eat ____(more/less) ____ (with/by) their eyes than ____(with/by) their stomachs.
Now(,) you see (: know/understand/perceive) how ___ (fascinate/fascinated/fascinating: eye-catching; attractive) Ig Nobel research (: study) is. Actually (: As a matter of fact), some of this research ___ (is/are) more practical than ___ (entertain/entertaining/entertainment/entertained). ___ (Take/Make) Douglas and Peter Rowlinson's research, for ____ (exercise/example). All ____ (daily/diary/dairy) farmers ___(rise/raise: bring up; keep) ____(cows/cattle) for milk, but how could they increase (: add up) milk _____(wield/yield) of their ___ (cattle/cows)? It is simple--just name the ___ (cows/cattle/battle). ____ (Call/Called/Calls/Calling) by their own names, the ___(cows/cattle/battle) end up ___(be/being/been) in a better mood. The researchers ____ (than/then) stated (在正式場合說) that ___(cows/cattle/battle) with names ___ (apparent/apparently) produce (: make/manufacture) ____ (more/less) milk than ___ (these/those/that/this) without names. It ___(see/seen/seem/seems) ____(have/having) a close (: an intimate) and f_____m (: fixed/steady/stable) relationship with humans (: human beings/humanity) helps the ___(cattle/cows/battle) ___(becoming/become) more ____(produce/production/productive 多產的; 產出更多牛奶的/produced).
____(The other/Another) ____(ample/example) of Ig Nobel research ___(has/have/had) turned out to be (結果是) useful (: functional/practical) ___(to/for) those ____(x/who) like ____(take/taking) pictures (: shots/photos). ____(When/While/As) many people are taking ___(photography/photographs), they ___(have/has/had) a hard time ___(in /on) trying to get a "blink-free____" (無人眨眼的) group photo (: shot/photograph/picture). ____(Luck/Lucky/Luckily; Fortunately), Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes ___ (find/found: figured out/founded) a solution (: way): When ___ (a/the) number of people in a group is ___(more/less) than twenty (20), (you) divide (: cut/separate) this number by three (3). The ___(result/resulted/resulting) number will be the number of shots ___ (that/that is/that are) needed (: called for/required) for a blink-free group photo. Of course (: Surely/Certainly/For sure), the bigger the group is, the more shots people will need to take. Then (: In turn/Afterwards), what will the result be if there are around (: approximately/about/concerning/regarding) 50 people in the group? "You can ___(kiss/kill/miss) your hopes (: expectations/anticipations) of (別指望) an unspoiled (: ideal) photo goodbye," said Svenson.
Do you also have an idea ___ (that sound/that sounds/that sounding) foolish? (You) Just ___ (make/take/do) some research and try to find out (: attempt to discover) more about it. It might make you a potential winner (: laureate/victor) of an Ig Nobel Prize!
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