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2010 年考研英语二真题
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 ., 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
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