Children who were breast-fed(母乳喂养) are better at dealing with stress than their bottle-fed classmates, a Swedish research shows．

A study of thousands of British youngsters showed that those who were given powder milk could feel it more difficult to deal with stressful events----such as the divorce( 离婚)of their parents．

   It is thought that the close contact helps mother and child bond and encourages a feeling of security that enables the child to deal better with traumatic situations in later life．

   Research found a mother’s milk may help reduce stress and the process may feed the growth of the parts of the brain crucial(关键的) in handling stress and anxiety．

   The Swedish findings follow a number of other studies which have shown that breast milk protects against infection, heart disease, diabetes and obesity．Breast-feeding may also reduce the mother’s risk of having breast cancer．

   The support of breast-feeding is so strong that the Department of Health recommends that mothers should feed their babies on breast milk alone for the first six months to ensure they get the best start in life．

   However, many women find breast-feeding difficult and claim they are too busy to do so or are not aware of the knowledge．In the latest study, researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm tracked the health of almost 9,000 boys and girls born in the UK in 1970．

   When the children reached ten, researchers gauged(测量)their ability to cope with stress by looking at how they were affected by family problems．

The results showed that those who were bottle-fed were more than four times as stressed by such events than those who were breast-fed．

73．Find in the passage a word closest in meaning to the underlined word “traumatic”．

74．What does the Department of Health recommend mothers to do?(回答词数不超过10个)

75．According to the research, what do you know about the breast-fed children? (回答词数不超过 6个)

The baby is hungry but it is too young to ______ (喂养) itself yet.

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　　假设你是小华(A)，周末你们全家出游，你把宠物交给你的邻居Ms Zhang(B)喂养1-2天，你要告诉她怎样照看它，比如喂水喂食等。

　　说明：你与你的同学分别充当A和B，两人合作完成一段对话，并把它写下来。

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互动作文

　　假设你是小华(A)，周末你们全家出游，你把宠物交给你的邻居Ms Zhang(B)喂养1-2天，你要告诉她怎样照看它，比如喂水喂食等。

　　说明：你与你的同学分别充当A和B，两人合作完成一段对话，并把它写下来。

A: ___________________________________________________________

B: ___________________________________________________________

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