《MBA2016年1月双证班考试真题》.docVIP

PAGE  PAGE 10 Section1 Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, 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, 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__”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 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 southwestern 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)H1N1, not seasonal flu. In the U. S, 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 2009, though most of those___17____dose were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is not ____18_____for preg