【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:根据录音中的“Some 100,000 stock animals succumbed and about 90,000 people were infected,hundreds fatally in five countries.”可知,本题答案为B。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:从录音中“The difference was that the second time around there was warning.…part of America’s space agency, NASA,told the authorities in Kenya that they had a problem.They told them again in October.And again in November.”可知,第二次的区别在于有来自NASA及时而准确的警告。故本题答案为D。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:从录音中“…the Kenyan health ministry had dispatched teams to the area to distribute mosquito nets and urge village leaders and religious authorities to stop people slaughtering and eating animals.”可知,只有D选项不是制止瘟疫肆虐的举措。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:从录音中“These higher temperatures brought heavy and sustained rains,cloud cover and warmer air to much of the Horn of Africa”可知,D是正确答案,B选项应该改成long-lived mosquitoes。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:该录音主要内容是从NASA给予肯尼亚及时迅捷的警示,使其在2007年瘟疫爆发的时候避免了10年前的厄运。因此D选项是正确答案(卫星和全球健康——远程诊断)。