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2010考研英语二真题及答案 Section I UseofEnglish Directions: Read the following passage.For each numbered blank there are four choices markedA, B, C and D.Choosethebest oneandmarkyour answersonANSWER SHEETl.(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 41years. 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 andelsewhere. But the epidemic is _____4_____ in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organizations director general, _____5_____ the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing onlymild symptomsand afullrecovery,often in the_____6_____ ofanymedicaltreatment. The outbreak came to global_____7_____in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noticed an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths_____8_____healthy adults.As much ofMexico City shut down at theheight of apanic,casesbegan to_____9_____inNewYork City,thesouthwesternUnited Statesandaroundtheworld. 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 onemillion people, and causedmore than 600deathsandmorethan 6,000hospitalizations. Federal health officials_____14_____Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began_____15_____orders from the states for thenew swine flu vaccine.Thenew vaccine,which is different from the annual flu vaccine, is ____16_____ ahead of expectations. More than three million doses w