Schools have been vilified (中伤) for giving kids access to soda in vending machines. (1)______ new data suggests that school soft drink sales may not be an important (2) ______ in how much soda kids drink.

(3) ______ compared soda consumption among nearly 500 students in Maine (4) ______attended seven schools over two school years. Four of the schools cut back on soft drink availability at the schools, while three of the schools made no (5) ______ .

Notably, all the students were drinking less soda (6) ______ the end of the study period, but there were no (7) ______differences in overall soft drink (8) ______among the different schools. The data suggests that curbing soft drink availability at school doesn’t (9) ______in significant changes in beverage consumption patterns. While there were no changes in overall soda consumption, there was a notable shift in diet soda drinking among girls. If the school (10) ______ soda availability, girls were (11) ______ likely to drink diet soda, (12) ______ to girls in schools that made no changes.

The data is the latest to suggest that schools may not (13) ______ as big a role in kids’ poor eating habits (14) ______ widely believed. Last year, The American Journal of Public Health published a provocative (发人深思的) study (15) ______ that childhood weight problems often get (16) ______ in the summer, when kids are out of school.

Data from kindergarteners and first graders (17) ______that body mass index increased two to three times as fast in summer as (18) ______the regular school year.

Notably, even children who were too thin and needed to gain weight appeared (19) ______ better eating habits during the school year. They (20) ______ gained more weight while in school and less in the summer.

1. A) While B) And C) For D) But

2. A) factor B) part C) place D) indicator

3. A) Teachers B) Students C) Researchers D) Doctors

4. A) which B) why C) where D) who

5. A) efforts B) progress C) changes D) contributions

6. A) by B) in C) for D) on

7. A) helpful B) meaningful C) helpless D) meaningless

8. A) consumption B) consumer C) assurance D) assurer

9. A) lead B) cause C) result D) believe

10. A) set back B) cut off C) cut up D) set out

11. A) less B) more C) least D) most

12. A) comparing B) compare C) compared D) comparison

13. A) take B) use C) act D) play

14. A) as B) so C) for D) since

15. A) described B) describing C) showed D) showing

16. A) better B) worse C) best D) worst

17. A) found B) find C) discovered D) discover

18. A) over B) during C) with D) among

19. A) being B) to be C) having D) to have

20. A) really B) truly C) actually D) partially

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