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

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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 WarII. In each of these cases the【C10】______ reason for rejection was related to weight.
A）  account
B）  broadly
C）   calculate
D）  indicators
E）   injured
F）  integrate
G）  interpret
H） primary
I）   related
J）   relieve
K） security
L） significantly
M） suggest
N） surprise
O） topping [br] 【C5】
选项
答案 G
解析 动词辨析题。分析句子结构可知,本句缺少动词与空格前的to构成动词不定式结构,作谓语动词allow的间接宾语。根据此句前半部分可得知,该项研究令人沮丧,但没有反驳的理由,而后半部分用but连接,是对前半句意思的转折,表明该地区的历史背景或许可以“解释说明”一下个中原因。结合备选项,interpret“阐释,解释”符合题意,故为答案。
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