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[考研类试卷]考研英语（二）模拟试卷87 一、Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D. (10 points) 0 Over the years, pregnant women have asked Donald Redelmeier, at Torontos Sunnybrook Hospital , about the dangers of diving, hot tubs, flying, mountaineering, cycling, bear attacks and all sorts of other exotic risks. 【C1】______they never 【C2】 ______road accidents. His new study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, 【C3】______they should. Dr. Redelmeier and his colleagues wanted to know if 【C4】______makes a woman driver more likely to be 【C5】______in a car crash. So they 【C6】______data from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, which records health visits for the Canadian provinces 13m residents. The researchers 【C7】______women who, in the months before giving birth, 【C8】______a hospital emergency unit after a car accident in which they had been driving. They 【C9】______looked at those womens hospital visits in the three years before becoming pregnant and for one year 【C10】______the birth. They found that being pregnant made the women 42% more likely to be in a serious car crash. The 【C11】______peaked in the fourth month of pregnancy. It seems that being pregnant is about as 【C12】______for drivers as having sleep apnoea, which 【C13】______people to snore and choke themselves a-wake throughout the night, leaving them 【C14】______during the day. Womens driving seemed to be affected 【C15】______how rich or poor or old they were, whether their pregnancy was 【C16】______or straightforward, or whether they already had children. To 【C17】______the possibility that pregnant women simply had an increased 【C18】______to seek care—or, 【C19】______laymans terms, were neurotic—they looked at whether they were more likely to go to hospital when involved in crashes that they did not cause, 【C20】______they were passen