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问题     Going hungry is a major contributor to ill health, particularly among children, and a new report reveals how long-lasting the damage can be. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute and the U-niversity of Calgary performed the first long-term study on the effects of hunger on general health, 【B1】______ children from birth to 21 years. Most studies to date have offered only snapshots(简单印象)of childhood health,【B2】______ the short-term impact of hunger over a period of time.
    In the new analysis, the scientists found that children who went hungry at least once in their lives were times more likely to have poor【B3】______ health 10 to 15 years later, compared with those who never had to go without food. "Our research shows that hunger and food insecurity are really damaging【B4】______children’s life chances," says lead author Sharon Kirkpatrick.
    The study supports earlier findings that multiple【B5】______ of hunger are more likely to cause ill health than an【B6】______ experience of starvation: children in Kirkpatrick’s analysis who experienced two or more periods of hunger were more than four times as likely to report poor health than those who never went hungry. The relationship, she says, remained strong even after the team【B7】______ other factors that could influence health, such as age, sex and household【B8】______ like income.
    Even one experience of hunger can have lasting effects on a child’s health, a fact that is especially troubling【B9】______the sobering rise in U.S. households that were forced to do without food in 2008: 15% of American families reported some【B10】______in the amount or quality of food they consumed, up from 11% the previous year. [br] 【B8】
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答案 characteristics
解析 空格应填入与age和sex并列的名词。characteristics意为“特征”。
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