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【标题：Meat consumption raises mortality rates】 （肉食消费增加了死亡率） 有关肉食或素食对环境和健康的影响，是2016年外刊经常讨论的话题。今天的文章选自于《科学美国人》2016年5月。 【精选】 (1) This study found a 3.6-year increase in life expectancy for those on a vegetarian diet for more than 17 years, and that all-cause mortality is higher for those who eat meat. (2) A review of large-scale studies involving more than 1.5 million people found all-cause mortality is higher for those who eat meat, ____ red or processed meat, on a daily basis. (3) Conducted by physicians from Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Is Meat Killing Us? was published today in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. 【作业】 今天布置的是一个完形填空题。请问空缺部分的最佳单词是： [A] uniquely [B] rarely [C] specially [D] particularly 【解词】 life expectancy 预期寿命 vegetarian a. 素食的 mortality n. 死亡率 processed a. 加工的 on a daily basis 按照每日的 【解句】 1、第（1）句的主干为this study found，之后found有两个宾语：其一、a 3.6-year increase in life expectancy for those on a vegetarian diet for more than 17 years；其二、宾语从句that all-cause mortality is higher for those who eat meat。 2、第（2）句主干 a review of large-scale studies ... found ...。现在分词短语 involving more than 1.5 million people修饰studies。之后是found的宾语从句：all-cause mortality is higher for those who eat meat, particularly red or processed meat, on a daily basis。其中，连词who引导定语从句修饰those。 3、第（3）句主干为Is Meat Killing Us? was published today。过去分词conducted by physicians from Mayo Clinic in Arizona作状语。 【译文】 （1）这项研究的发现是，在那些多于17年素食的人中预期寿命增加了3.6年，而且在那些肉食者人中各种原因的死亡率要更高。 （2）对1500万人群进行的大规模的研究进行的审核发现，各种原因造成的死亡率在肉食者中药更高，尤其每天是食红肉或加工肉制品者。 （3）在亚利桑那州Mayo诊所带领下，今天在《美国整骨疗法协会期刊》（American Osteopathic Association）期刊上发表了《肉食正在让我们丧生吗？》。 【答】应选[D]particularly“特别，尤其”，它侧重于有时表示同类事物中作为某一个体所具有的独特性，它是最通顺的表达。本题主要的干扰来自于选项[C]specially“特殊，特别地”，它多强调非同寻常之意。 【标题：Cancer screening benefits are overstated, experts claim】 （专家声称：筛查癌症的益处被夸大了） 医学类是考试中常见话题。今天从《卫报》2016年5月从选择了一段这一话题的文章。 【精选】 (1) The benefits of cancer screening have been overstated and the practice may not even save lives, experts in the US and Germany have claim