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  3. Vegetarianism is the theory or practice of living solely upon vegetables, fruits, grains, and nuts—with or without the【S1】______

Vegetarianism is the theory or practice of living solely upon vegetables, fruits, grains, and nuts—with or without the【S1】______

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问题     Vegetarianism is the theory or practice of living solely upon vegetables, fruits, grains, and nuts—with or without the【S1】______of milk products and eggs — generally for ethical, environmental or【S2】______reasons. All forms of flesh(meat, fowl, and seafood)are【S3】______from all vegetarian diets, but many vegetarians use milk and milk products.
    In the early 21st century, vegetarianism has become decidedly mainstream. The number of vegetarians is difficult to determine, but a 2006【S4】______of 1,000 U.S. adults by the Vegetarian Resource Group found that 6.7 percent of respondents never ate meat, and 1.4 percent of those were vegan. A British survey the same year found that 12 percent of respondents called themselves "vegetarian". Many of today vegetarians came to the practice because they【S5】______with sentiments about the immorality of eating animals who suffered to become someone’s dinner. Others are【S6】______concerned about health; many studies have demonstrated the health【S7】______of vegetarian and vegan diets, particularly in the prevention and【S8】______of heart disease and in the lesser incidence of some form of cancer.
    In later century the history of vegetarianism diverged significantly. In Indian itself, though Buddhism gradually【S9】______, the ideal of harmlessness, with its corollary of fleshless diet, spread steadily in the 1st millennium AD until many of the upper classes and even some of the lower, had【S10】______it. Beyond Indian it was carried with Buddhism, northward and eastward as far as China and Japan.

A)adopted           B)hazards           C)nutritional             D)poll
E)support           F)agree             G)primarily               H)reversal
I)included          J)addition          K)benefits                L)minor
M)excluded          N)declined          O)demonstrated
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答案N
解析 此处，依据上下文，需要一消极意义动词作谓语修饰Buddhism(佛教)，declined (衰退)为正确答案。此句意为：仅在印度，虽然佛教日益衰退，向善理念在公元 1000年前，引起传播了素食，直到许多上层阶级，甚至底层都奉行这一理念。
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