2016年12月英語(yǔ)六級(jí)選詞填空練習(xí)(7)

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Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.   Eating too much salt can lead to high blood pressure, stroke and heart attack, even where it's least expected Researchers in Kenya from the Weill Comell Medical College say hypertension ( 高血壓) is on a startling rise in sub-Saharan Africa The problem is so(36)______in the Americas that PAHO---the Pan American Health Organization(37) ______ a program called   SaltSmart. Branka Legetic is the program coordinator.   Legetic says most people don't know the dangers of eating too much sodium, the (38) ______ found in salt. The World Health Organization recommends no more than five grams of sodium per day, the amount in a (39) ______ of salt. The goal of SaltSmart is to get people to cut their salt (40)______in half by the year 2020.   In the U.S., Million Hearts, a government-sponsored program, aims to prevent 1 million heart attacks and (41) ______ by 2017. Dr. Janet Wright is the executive director.   "We're asking for this effort to begin with the individual, within each of us. I think so many of us have been (42) ______ by heart disease because it is still the number one killer in the country, one out of three deaths," said Wright. Wright explains that simple practices can go a long way to (43)______ this goal. "It could be adding a fruit or a vegetable. It could be building your way up to 150 minutes of exercise each week. And it can also mean working with your health care team to stay on medicines if they've been (44) ______," she said   Wright says missing even a day's medication damages the heart, the kidneys, eyes and blood (45)______ Branka Legetic also says healthy eating habits could go a long way because there is a lot of salt in processed foods.
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