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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．
3 l% c' P& ~! S    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．
    “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．
8 ?( T2 a3 h% h& C- g. f. F  “Our evidence suggests that the reason why breast-fed babies do better is because they grow more __6 __ in the early weeks．”
    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．   
1 l/ x* C. w# g+ X  o    An estimated 17 million people die of __8__ disease，particularly heart attack and strokes，each year，according to the World Health Organization．
/ w0 C  k2 F8 x4 A4 O% ?+ [    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．
  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．
词汇：
breastfeeding n．母乳喂养
# y* c+ N" Y. q' k- A  ocardiovascular adi．(病等)心血管的
allergy n．变态反应；过敏性
% t1 ~; C# T; f. Bcholesterol n．胆固醇
& \3 d! b" \5 V# }  r5 Ldiabetes  n．糖尿病
obesity n．肥胖
' o' _) g$ x( ]& ~marker n．标识，标志
6 ^* g4 A1 B1 q! H+ e9 c8 d注释：
- _2 U/ r2 R* }  B1．  nutritional baby formulas-有营养的配制婴儿喂养奶
练习：
, Z5 _5 j6 Q- o1 h( o6 h1．  A)hundreds   B) thousands    C) millions         D) numbers
3 r+ W- O+ Y% ?2．  A)likely     B) possible     C) easy             D) prone
3．  A)against    B) towards      C) onto             D) upon