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． “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．” 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． 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 cardiovascular adi．(病等)心血管的 allergy n．变态反应；过敏性 cholesterol n．胆固醇 diabetes n．糖尿病 obesity 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 练习： 1． 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