单选题
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
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by the World Health Organization in 41 years.
The heightened alert
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an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that assembled after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising
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in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere.
But the epidemic is "
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" in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organization"s director general,
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the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in the
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of any medical treatment.
The outbreak came to global
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in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noted an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths
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healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to
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in New York City, the southwestern United States and around the world.
In the United States, new cases seemed to fade
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warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2009, officials reported there was
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flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the
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tested are the new swine flu, also known as (A)H1N1, not seasonal flu. In the U. S., it has
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more than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations.
Federal health officials
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Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began
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orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine. The new vaccine, which is different from the annual flu vaccine, is
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ahead of expectations. More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those
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doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is not
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for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, heart disease or several other
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. But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high-risk groups: health care workers, people
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infants and healthy young people.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 此题考查语义衔接。空格处需要的是动词，其逻辑主语是world Health Organization，逻辑宾语是worldwide epidemic。根据上下文，criticize批评；appoint任命，委派(某人任职)；comment评论，均不符合语义。designate指定，确定为正确答案。
【答案解析】[解析] 此题考查语义衔接。空格处需填入一个形容词，用来修饰severity。根据下文的内容the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery，此处只有填moderate温和的才能在意思上前后吻合一致，即在严重程度上不那么厉害，患者的症状才可能mild，才可能完全恢复。normal正常的；unusual不常见的；extreme极端的，都无法使意思前后统一起来。
【答案解析】[解析] 此题考查语义衔接。空格处是同一句话的后半部分：“大多数患者只是出现轻微的症状，往往——任何治疗即可完全恢复”。可推出：moderate in severity，mild symptom，full recovery这一切往往(often)都不需要any medical treatment，所以填入absence合乎逻辑。in the absence of意思是“在缺乏……的情况下”。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 此题考查语义衔接。本段叙述猪流感的严重程度。题句的意思是：“这次在2009年4月下旬流感的爆发引起了全球的______。”考生只要把整个句子读完，答案就出来了：墨西哥城出现大量住院病例和死亡病例，全城封闭，纽约城及美国其他地方也出现类似情况。所以合乎逻辑的理解应该是：流感的爆发come to global notice“引起了全球的关注”。come to reality成为现实，虽然搭配是对的，但用在此处不合逻辑；phenomenon现象，concept概念都不能与come to一起构成短语。come to notice引起注意。
【答案解析】[解析] 此题考查语义衔接。本句是前一题的第二个并列分句：“联邦卫生组织官员动用了国家储备给儿童防疫，并且开始______来自各州新流感疫苗的订货。”理解题句中的order一词是关键。此处order的意思不是“命令”而是“订货”。place an order订货；deliver order送货，交货；take order接受订货，接订单；give order下命令。显然不可能是选项D。考生还要注意到，句子的主语是Federal health officials“联邦卫生组织官员”，句中order from states“来自各州的订货”，而不是to states，所以也不应该是place an order或deliver an order。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 此题考查语义衔接。此句是一个复合句，主要框架是：The new vaccine is ahead of expectations“新流感疫苗会早于人们的预期”。从句意看空格处应填入“到来，得到，研制出来”等意思的词。feasible可行的，能行得通的；available能得到的；reliable可靠的；applicable适用的，经常接介词to，表示“适用于”。根据上下文意思的衔接，应该选available。