12010 考研英语二真题及答案Section IUse of EnglishDirections:Read the following passage. For each numbered blank there are four choices marked A, B, C andD. 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 epidemicon June 11, 2009. It is the first worldwide epidemic_____1_____ by the World HealthOrganization in 41 years.The heightened alert _____2_____an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva thatconvened after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising_____3_____in Britain, Japan, Chileand elsewhere.But the epidemic is "_____4_____" in severity, according to Margaret Chan, theorganization's director general, _____5_____ the overwhelming majority of patients experiencingonly 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 authoritiesnoticed an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths_____8_____healthy adults. Asmuch of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to _____9_____in New YorkCity, the southwestern United States and around the world.In the United States, new cases seemed to fade_____10_____warmer weather arrived. But inlate September 2009, officials reported there was _____11_____flu activity in almost every stateand that virtually all the_____12_____tested are the new swine flu, also known as (A) H1N1, notseasonal flu. In the U.S., it has_____13_____more than one million people, and caused more than600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations.Federal health officials_____14_____Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile andbegan_____15_____orders from the state...
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