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08年教材上完型部分：Many children’s deaths preventable: WHO 属于A级考生在复习中应该关注的文章，建议B级考生在复习中也可以关注一下， 因为这篇文章语言难度介于A级与B级之间。
                     Breastfeeding Can Cut Cardiovascular Risk
    Breastfeeding can reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke later in life and could prevent hundreds of __1__ of deaths each year，researchers said on Friday．
    Babies who are breastfed have fewer childhood infections and allergies and are less __2__ to obesity．British scientists have now shown that breastfeeding and slow growth in the first weeks and months of life has a protective effect __3 __   cardiovascular disease．
1 X" i+ t+ {9 w0 `2 x0 c    “Diets that promote more rapid growth put babies at risk many years later in __4__ of raising their blood pressure，raising their cholesterol and increasing their tendency to diabetes and obesity—the __ 5 __ main risk factors for stroke and heart attack.”said Professor Alan Lucas of the Institute of Child Health in London．
, D: H' N/ X* _% [* l  “Our evidence suggests that the reason why breast-fed babies do better is because they grow more __6 __ in the early weeks．”
* i/ H* A$ f0 A" k+ ]1 C    Lucas said the effects of breastfeeding on blood pressure and cholesterol later in life are greater than  __7 __adults can do to control the risk factors for cardiovascular disease, other than taking drugs．   
    An estimated 17 million people die of __8__ disease，particularly heart attack and strokes，each year，according to the World Health Organization．
7 T! E2 A+ j" j9 \+ E3 N( v    Lucas and his colleagues compared the health of 2 1 6 teenagers __9__as babies had either been breastfed or given different nutritional baby formulas’．They reported their__10__ in The Lancet medical journal．
7 z) V$ P+ M! y' X- B2 }9 j: W  The teenagers who had been __11__had a 14一percent lower ratio of bad to good cholesterol and lower concentrations of a protein that is a marker for cardiovascular disease risk．
The researchers also found that，__12 __ of the child’s weight at birth，the faster the infants grew in the early weeks and months of life，the __13__ was their later risk of heart disease and stroke．The effect was the __14__  for both boys and girls．
  “The more human milk you have in the newborn period，the lower your cholesterol level is， the lower your blood pressure is 1 6 years __15__，”Lucas said．
4 F1 J; A, n3 L# ]( x词汇：
9 J) N7 Z: Q% X6 C' E$ L5 M8 q+ q" Qbreastfeeding n．母乳喂养
: W( k% k5 N/ F7 c9 Pcardiovascular adi．(病等)心血管的
allergy n．变态反应；过敏性
' }, y/ `* A- zcholesterol n．胆固醇来www.Examw.com
3 t$ d: b5 n* B1 n7 p! f2 y( P2 W6 `diabetes  n．糖尿病
( I/ t) ~% y1 B1 a6 F' Q0 Dobesity n．肥胖
marker n．标识，标志
注释：
1．  nutritional baby formulas-有营养的配制婴儿喂养奶
0 \9 F& u# _, z: w. m练习：
; s8 z9 [1 j' Q  i; M8 {1．  A)hundreds   B) thousands    C) millions         D) numbers
9 H7 Z7 G! ^7 i3 z+ G2．  A)likely     B) possible     C) easy             D) prone
7 @' K' r4 P2 }8 L% O) p5 n; \3．  A)against    B) towards      C) onto             D) upon