题目内容：

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Why men wolf down their meals   1.    women take their time? Many a woman has watched in disbelief as their partners eat their food minutes after sitting down to dinner. Now Korean researchers have discovered why: men and women    2.  (actual) chew differently. Women chew each individual mouthful more times — taking longer to finish   3.   (eat) their meal.

The researchers hired 24 males and 24 females in South Korea. They recorded the size of people’s bites, total chewing time per mouthful of food, total number of chews and how long 4.    took the person to eat the entire meal. Men typically take    5.   (large) bites with more “chewing power”,   6.    means they consume their meal more quickly than women.

Though women were watched     7. (have) the same chewing pace as men, they chewed each mouthful more times, slowing down the total time it took them to eat their meal.

The study 8.   (publish) in the January issue of the Physiology and Behaviour Journal. But it flies in the face of an earlier result studied   9.  researchers at Nippon Dental University in Tokyo, Japan, which found no   10.    (different) in how the sexes chewed gum.