绝密★启用前 2010年全国硕士研究生招生考试 英语(二) (科目代码:204) ☆考生注意事项☆ 1. 答题前,考生须在试题册指定位置上填写考生编号和考生姓名;在答题卡 指定位置上填写报考单位、考生姓名和考生编号,并涂写考生编号信息点。 2. 考生须把试题册上的“试卷条形码”粘贴条取下,粘贴在答题卡的“试卷 条形码粘贴位置”框中。不按规定粘贴条形码而影响评卷结果的,责任由 考生自负。 3. 选择题的答案必须涂写在答题卡相应题号的选项上,非选择题的答案必须 书写在答题卡指定位置的边框区域内。超出答题区域书写的答案无效;在 草稿纸、试题册上答题无效。 4. 填(书)写部分必须使用黑色字迹签字笔书写,字迹工整、笔迹清楚;涂 写部分必须使用 2B 铅笔填涂。 5. 考试结束,将答题卡和试题册按规定交回。 (以下信息考生必须认真填写) 考生编号 考生姓名 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or Don ANSWERSHEET 1. (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 assembled after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising 3 in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere. But the epidemic is "_4_ " m 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 outbreakcame to global _7_ in late April 2009, 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 southwestem 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) HlNl, not seasona