Section C Compound Dictation
It is commonly held that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol can reduce the odds of having a deadly heart attack. More (36) ______ benefits to the heart have (37) ______ when people had three to seven drinks per day. But doctors advise against that because heavy drinking is associated with a (38) ______ of problems. It can be liver damages or (39) fertility. Dr. Pekka Karhunen, of the University of Tampere in Finland, said that (40) ______ reports that one or two alcoholic drinks per day could help (41) ______ off heart disease appeared to have been "(42) ______ ". Of his study, released at the American Heart Associations (43) ______ meeting, Karhunen said in an interview that "there is no danger in one or two drinks per day, but the benefit is quite low." (44) ______________________________________________________________________ . The drinks include beer, wine or liquor. Karhunen and his colleagues chose 700 Finnish men who had died between the ages of 33 and 70. The researchers (45) __________________________________________________________________________ . The scientists found that having fewer than three drinks per day did not reduce the progress of any heart disease and only "slightly" minimized the chance of having a fatal heart attack. (46) ___________________________________________________________________ .
