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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] 【C7】
选项
答案 O
解析 动词辨析题。分析句子结构可知,空格处位于with引导的独立主格结构中,因此应填入动词的现在分词形式。根据此句前半部分可得知,南方一直是公众健康的重灾区。with 引导的独立主格结构进一步用数据阐述这一点，可推断出南方人口在与死亡等有关的数据中一直高居榜首。结合备选项，可推断topping“达到.....的顶端”符合句意,故为答案。
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