文档介绍：考研英语二真题及答案
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，. 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 ，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 ，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_____doses wer