文档介绍:MBA全国考试英语真题和解析
Directions:
Read the following the best word(s) for each numbered blank and markA,B,C,D on answer sheet1(10points)
The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11,. It is the first worldwide epidemic ___1___ by the Word Health Organization in 41 years.
The heightened alert ____2___ an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that assembled 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 ,when Mexican authorities noted 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 ,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 made available in early October ,though most of those ___17__ dose were of the FluMist nasal spray type,which is