单选题
The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11, 2009. It was the first worldwide epidemic【1】by the World Health Organization in 41 years. The heightened alert【2】an emergency meeting with flue 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 flue vaccine. The new vaccine, which is different from the annual flu vaccine, is【16】ahead of expectation. More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those【17】doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is not【18】for pregnant women, people of 50 or those with breathing difficulties, heart disease or several other【19】. But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high-risk groups: health-care workers, people【20】infants and healthy young people.
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【1】
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】解析:词汇题(近义词辨析)。该空格需要一个非谓语动词做名词epidemic的定语,其逻辑主语是the World Health Organization“世界卫生组织”,逻辑宾语是epidemic“流行病”,由此可以推断出本空格需要“命名,确定,认定”等类似含义。A项criticize意为“批评,批判”,不符合题意;B项appoint意为“约定:任命”,不符合题意;C项comment意为“评论,谈论”,不符合题意;D项designate意为“指定,命名;指派”之意,其中“命名”意符合句意,为本题答案。
【答案解析】解析:搭配题(独立主格结构)。本空格中需要介词with与the majority of patients experiencing…这个分词短语一并构成独立主格结构,所以A项为本题答案。
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【6】
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析:搭配题(介词短语)。该空格之前说明大多数病人症状轻微,并且完全康复,空格之后提到any medical treatment“任何治疗”,由此推断大多病人由于症状轻微,没有经过治疗便完全康复。A项的progress可以与介词in构成介词短语in progress,意为“在进行中”,不符合题意:B项的absence与介词in构成in the absence of,意为“没有……:当……不在时”,符合题意,为本题答案;C项的presence与in构成in the presence of,意为“有某人在场:当在……的当面时”,不符合题意:D项的favor与in构成in favor of,意为“赞同,支持”,不符合题意。
单选题
【7】
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】解析:搭配题(动词短语)。动词短语come to one"s notice意为“受到……的注意”,符合题意,所以本题答案为D。该空格所在句子中的note“注意”对本题解答有提示作用。
单选题
【8】
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】解析:搭配题(介词与名词)。该空格之后是名词healthy adults“健康的成年人”,空格之前是hospitalization and deaths“住院和死亡”,由此确定该空格中需要介词among,与healthy adults构成among the healthy adults,意为“在健康的成年人之中”,符合题意,为本题答案。
单选题
【9】
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析:搭配题(动词短语)。该空格中动词的逻辑主语是cases“病例”,地点状语是in New York City and around the world,由此推断空格中需要“出现,发生”等类似含义。A项stay up意为“熬夜”,不符合题意;B项crop up意为“意外地出现”,符合题意,为本题答案;C项fill up意为“充满,装满”,不符合题意:D项cover up意为“掩盖;裹住”,不符合题意。
【答案解析】解析:词汇题(词义选择)。该空格中需要名词做test“化验,试验”的逻辑宾语,同时其表语为the new swine flu“新型猪流感”,由此可以推断空格中需要“样品,样本”等类似含义。A项category意为“种类,类别”,与test不能构成动宾关系;B项example意为“例子;榜样”,与test不能构成动宾关系;C项pattern意为“模式,方式”,与test不能构成动宾关系;D项sample意为“取样,样品”,与test构成动宾关系表达“化验取样”,符合题意,为本题答案。
单选题
【13】
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】解析:词汇题(近形词辨析)。该空格中需要谓语动词,其主语是it,指代上句中的the new swine flu,宾语是one million people,由此可以推断空格中需要“感染,使染病,威胁”等类似含义。A项impart意为“给予;告知”,不符合上下文语意;B项immerse意为“使沉浸于,使深陷于”,不符合上下文语意;C项inject意为“打针,注射”,不符合上下文语意:D项infect意为“感染”,符合上下文语意,为本题答案。
单选题
【14】
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析:词汇题.(近形词辨析)。该空格中需要谓语动词,其主语是officials“联邦卫生官员”,宾语是Tamiflu for children(根据上下文可以推断Tamiflu是一种疫苗),由此可以推断该空格中需要“推出,使能够得到”等类似含义。A项release意为“发布,发行”之意,符合上下文语意,为本题答案;B项relay意为“中转,中继”,不符合上下文语意;C项relieve意为“缓解,减轻”,不符合上下文语意;D项remain意为“仍然是,保持”,不符合上下文语意。
单选题
【15】
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析:搭配题(动词与名词)。A项的place与空格之后的order构成搭配place order for,意为“下订单,订购”,因此为本题答案。
单选题
【16】
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析:词汇题(词义选择)。该空格中需要形容词做表语,其主语是The new vaccine,空格之后的ahead of expectation意为“比预料提前”,由此推断空格中需要“可以使用,可以得到”等类似含义。A项feasible意为“可行的,行得通的”,不符合上下文语意;B项available意为“可得到的,可用的”,符合上下文语意,为本题答案;C项reliable意为“可靠的,可依赖的”,不符合上下文语意;D项applicable意为“适当的,合适的”,不符合题意。