考研英语,2010真题二.doc

Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET1.(10 points)
The outbreak of swine flu that was first ted in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on june 11,2009. It is the first wotldwide cpidemic__1__by the World anization in41years.
The heightened alert __2__an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that assembled after a sharp pise in cases in rising __3__in Britain ,japan,Chile and elsewhere.
Bur the epiemic is “__4__”in severity. According to Margaret Chan. anization’s director general,__5__the overwhelming majorty of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and full recovery. Often in the__6__of any medical treatment.
The ourbreak came to gobal__7__in lafe Mexican authorities noted an unusually latge number of hospitalizations and deaths__8__ healthy adults. As much ofMexico City Shut down at the height of a panic,cases began to__9__in New York southwestem United States and atound the world.
In the United States, new cases seemed to fade__10__warmer weather 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 the .,It has__13__more than one million people,and caused mone 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 atates for the new swine flu new ine,which is different from the annual flu ine,is__16__ ahead of 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 it was still possible to inate people in other high-ris