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A new scholarly study documenting the poor health of southern military recrui

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问题    A new scholarly study documenting the poor health of southern military recruits (新兵) has been much reported. The team of researchers found that male and female army recruits from ten southern states were【C1】______less fit and much more likely to become【C2】______while on duty than male and female recruits from other parts of the country.
   The authors of this careful study, based on data drawn from 170,000 recruits,【C3】______that the overall poor state of public health in the South shows up clearly in the data on military recruits from the region, and that, as a result, is impairing U. S. military readiness and national【C4】______
   There is no reason to challenge the study’s overall findings, however depressing/ but adding a bit of historical context might allow us better to【C5】______them. It is important to note that the study’s findings will not【C6】______any student of southern history. The South has long been a public health disaster area, with the region’s population【C7】______the charts in statistics relating to mortality and various indices (指数) of risky health outcomes for a century and a half. The region’s doubted rankings in these regards are closely【C8】______to wealth, poverty, educational achievement, and other socio-economic【C9】______
   The average level of income, high level of poverty, and poor state of public health in the region over the last one hundred fifty years have presented in countless ways, including in high rates of rejection for military service in the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II. In each of these cases the【C10】______reason for rejection was related to weight.
   A) account F) integrate K) security
   B) broadly G) interpret L) significantly
   C) calculate H) primary M) suggest
   D) indicators I) related N) surprise
   E) injured J) relieve O) topping [br] 【C1】
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答案 L
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