Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Gray Hair Can Return to Its Original Color
Few signs of old age are clearer than the sight of gray hair. 【小题1】 we grow older, our strands of hair lose their youthful color. Although this may seem like a permanent change, new research reveals that gray hairs 【小题2】 miraculously regain color — at least temporarily.
In one 1972 paper, the late doctor Stanley Comaish reported an isolated case of a 38-year-old man, with his three strands 【小题3】(be) light near the ends but dark near the roots. This signaled a reversal in the normal graying process, 【小题4】 begins at the root.
A new study from researchers at Columbia University is the first 【小题5】(offer) quantitative evidence linking psychological stress to graying hair in people. Having analyzed individual hairs from 14 volunteers, researchers compared the results with each volunteer’s stress diary, in which individuals’ review of their calendars and each week’s level of stress rated are included.
When hairs were aligned with (与……对照) stress diaries, striking associations between stress and hair graying 【小题6】(reveal) and, in some cases, there was a reversal of graying when stress was removed. There was one individual who went on a long vacation, and five hairs on that person’s head returned back to dark during the vacation.
Although it may seem easy to understand 【小题7】 stress can speed up graying, the researchers were surprised to discover that hair color can be restored when stress is eased. We could picture hair as a powerful tool to assess the effects of 【小题8】(early) life events on aging — because hair provides a kind of physical record of past events, much【小题9】 the rings of a tree. It’s pretty clear that the hair encodes part of your biological history in some way. Hair grows out of the body, and then it crystallizes into 【小题10】 hard and stable that holds the memory of your past.