2010年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语（二）
Section I Use of English
Direction:
Read the following text.Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)
①The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11,2009.②It was 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_"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.
①The outbreak came to global_7_in late April 2009,when Mexican authorities noticed an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths_8_healthy adults.②As 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.
①In the United States,new cases seemed to fade_10_warmer weather arrived.②But 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.③In the U.S.,it has_13_more than one million people,and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations.
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