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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。
. s. I7 l2 j8 d# W$ D                     Breastfeeding Can Cut Cardiovascular Risk
( K. l- i- Q+ m: V7 w( k; K    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．
7 D! `+ j# P; A$ d: `8 E  [8 Q' o    “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．
  “Our evidence suggests that the reason why breast-fed babies do better is because they grow more __6 __ in the early weeks．”
' u: O. B2 R8 J2 G8 H) [    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．
    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．
. y% j: ^9 S, x  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．
6 q$ |& n2 N  _7 u- n2 _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．
5 ?$ E2 L. T+ x  “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．
2 L$ Z  k4 N* V, I! {词汇：
breastfeeding n．母乳喂养
  A" n* c9 O/ icardiovascular adi．(病等)心血管的
allergy n．变态反应；过敏性
8 v# b) F5 W  Kcholesterol n．胆固醇
diabetes  n．糖尿病
obesity n．肥胖
9 N; x& O) P( Gmarker n．标识，标志
$ B4 F, q& j$ x8 I- f9 k, z注释：
- s! R& G1 P$ A; y$ b' o4 K4 v1．  nutritional baby formulas-有营养的配制婴儿喂养奶
+ q# W+ V  ~) \* v  ~练习：
+ E! v9 F, i  U* C1．  A)hundreds   B) thousands    C) millions         D) numbers
2．  A)likely     B) possible     C) easy             D) prone
3．  A)against    B) towards      C) onto             D) upon