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] 【C6】

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答案 N

解析动词辨析题。分析句子结构可知，that引导的宾语从句缺谓语,空格处应为动词原形，与助动词will搭配作宾语从句的谓语。根据此句前一句可得知,该地区的历史背景或许可以解释南方士兵身体素质较差的原因，而该句宾语从句中的宾语为学习南方历史的学生。由此推断，了解南方历史的学生们应该不难明白其中原因。结合空格前的否定词not和备选项,可以推断出surprise“使...惊讶”符合题意,故为答案。

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