Passage B: Questions 26-35
        A study published recently in the journal Pediatrics concludes that eating lots of fiber-richfoods during high school years may significantly reduce a woman's risk of developing breastcancer.
       The findings are based on a long-term study of 44,000 women who were __26__about theireating habits in high school. The women also completed __27__ questionnaires about their__28__habits every four years.
 The researchers found that women who__29__high levels of fiber had a 24 percent lowerrisk of developing breast cancer before menopause, compared __30__ women who ate low levelsof fiber. For the women on the high-fiber diet, the lifetime risk of developing breast cancer was

also cut by 16 percent.

Of course, the idea that high-fiber diets can help keep us __31__ is not new.

It's well-known that fiber can prevent constipation and keep the bowel moving by making stools

bulkier and absorbing water. Prior studies have shown dietary fiber can protect __32__colorectal

cancer and may lower the risks of diabetes and heart disease. There's also a growing body of

evidence linking fiber __33__ weight management.

This new study provides some evidence of yet another potential benefit.

"This is a really important study __34__ that the more fiber you eat during your high school

years, the lower your risk is in developing breast cancer," says Kimberly Blackwell, a breast cancer

specialist at the Duke Cancer Center.

In a commentary accompanying the study in Pediatrics, Blackwell writes, "There is

longstanding evidence that dietary fibers may reduce circulating estrogen levels." And this may

help explain the __35__ risk of breast cancer.

【題組】26.
(A) carried
(B) surveyed
(C) claimed
(D) resulted