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Getting a university degree isn’t just good for your mind—it’s good for your heart, says a new study in the journal BMC(British

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问题     Getting a university degree isn’t just good for your mind—it’s good for your heart, says a new study in the journal BMC(British Medical Council)Public Health. The longer you spend in education, the lower your blood pressure is likely to be. This is【S1】______true for women.
    Scientists from the US, Canada, UK and Australia examined 30 years of【S2】______from 3 890 people who were being followed as part of the Framingham Offspring Study, which【S3】______the education and medical histories of 3 890 people. Researchers divided subjects into three groups, low education(12 years or less),【S4】______education(13 to 16 years)and high education(17 years or more). They then【S5】______the average systolic(收缩的)blood pressure for the 30-year period.
    Women with low education had a blood pressure 3.26 mmHg higher than those with a high【S6】______of education. In men the difference was 2. 26 mmHg. Lead author Eric Loucks, assistant professor of【S7】______health at Brown University, said the analysis may【S8】______a well-known association in the developed world between education and heart disease. Uneducated people tend to【S9】______up in demanding jobs that give workers little control, which have been associated with high blood pressure, said researchers. The effect is greater in women, said Loucks, because "women with【S10】______education are more likely to be experiencing depression, they are more likely to be single parents, more likely to be living in impoverished areas and more likely to be living below the poverty line."
A)tracked F)calculated K)strangely
B)explain G)essential L)end
C)data H)less M)middle
D)life I)pressure N)study
E)level J)community O)particularly
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答案B
解析 动词辨析题。空格前为情态动词may，后面为宾语association，因此应填入一个动词原形作谓语。通过分析选项，只有explain在语法和语义上与文章相符。此处意思为“这项分析可能解释了受教育程度与心脏病之间的关系”。
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