2010
鑰冪爺鑻辫浜岀湡棰樺強绛旀
Section I
Use of English
Directions:
Read
the
following
passage.
For
each
numbered
blank
there
are
four
choices
marked
A,
B,
C
and
D.
Choose the best one and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET l. (10 points)
The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11,
2009. It is the first worldwide epidemic_____1_____ by the World Health Organization in 41 years.
The
heightened alert
_____2_____an
emergency
meeting
with
flu
experts
in Geneva
that
convened
after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising_____3_____in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere.
But
the
epidemic
is
"_____4_____"
in
severity,
according
to
Margaret
Chan,
the
organization's
director
general,
_____5_____
the
overwhelming
majority
of
patients
experiencing
only
mild
symptoms
and a full recovery, often in the _____6_____ of any medical treatment.
The
outbreak
came
to
global_____7_____in
late
April
2009,
when
Mexican
authorities
noticed
an
unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths_____8_____healthy adults. As much of Mexico City
shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to _____9_____in New York City, the southwestern United
States and around the world.
In
the
United
States,
new
cases
seemed
to
fade_____10_____warmer
weather
arrived.
But
in
late
September
2009,
officials
reported
there
was
_____11_____flu
activity
in
almost
every
state
and
that
virtually all the_____12_____tested are the new swine flu, also known as (A) H1N1, not seasonal flu. In
the U.S., it has_____13_____more than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and more
than 6,000 hospitalizations.
Federal
health
officials_____14_____Tamiflu
for
children
from
the
national
stockpile
and
began_____15_____orders
from
the
states
for
the
new
swine
flu
vaccine.
The
new
vaccine,
which
is
different from the annual flu vaccine, is ____16_____ ahead of expectations. More than three million doses
were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those _____17_____doses were of the
FluMist
nasal
spray
type,
which
is
not_____18_____for
pregnant
women,
people
over
50
or
those
with
breathing difficulties, heart disease or several other _____19_____. But it was still
possible to vaccinate
people
in
other
high-risk
group:
health
care
workers,
people
_____20_____infants
and
healthy
young
people.
1 [A] criticized
[B] appointed
[C]commented
[D] designated
2 [A] proceeded
[B] activated
[C] followed
[D] prompted
3 [A] digits
[B] numbers
[C] amounts
[D] sums
4 [A] moderate
[B] normal
[C] unusual
[D] extreme
5 [A] with
[B] in
[C] from
[D] by
6 [A] progress
[B] absence
[C] presence
[D] favor