Eating vegetables is good. As evidence of the health benefits of vegetables

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问题     Eating vegetables is good. As evidence of the health benefits of vegetables has【S1】______, public health scientists, nutritionists, federal health experts, growers and marketers, teachers and physicians have been urging—and urging and urging—that Americans eat more of them.
    Producers have gone to great lengths to【S2】______vegetable consumption by a public increasingly pressed for time and overly focused on fast food and takeout. Farmers’ markets are【S3】______up all over the country, with displays of locally grown produce. Supermarkets feature ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook vegetables. Simple, tasty recipes are often part of the produce display. Even the major fast-food purveyors (供应者) have made an effort,【S4】______salads as side and main dishes; McDonald’s now sells【S5】______salads than any other eating establishment.
   【S6】______last month came the discouraging word from the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that Americans have【S7】______far short of the goals set a decade ago to increase consumption of vegetables. In 2009, just one in three adults had three or more servings a day. That was half the【S8】______public health officials had hoped for. And it falls【S9】______shorter if you look at the current
recommendations: at least four to five vegetable servings daily. Please note the【S10】______of a serving: half a cup of cut-up or cooked vegetables, one cup of fresh greens, half a cup of cooked dried beans, or, if you must, six ounces of vegetable juice.
A) percentage F) springing K) Yet
B) accumulated G) introducing L) comments
C) disagree H) Already M) different
D) definition I) more N) fallen
E) encourage J) even O) rate [br] 【S7】

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答案 N

解析 固定搭配题。空格所在句含有that引导的同位语从句,且从句中缺少谓语动词。又根据空格前面是助动词have可以推知,空格处需要填入动词的过去分词形式。此处后半句句意为“美国人的蔬菜消费量远远——十年前设定的增加蔬菜消费量的目标”。空格所在的同位语从句的先行词是the discouraging word“令人沮丧的消息”,因此,fallen“落下”符合句意。fall short of是固定搭配,意为“未达到……”。
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