2010考研英语二真题及答案解析.pdf

2010年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试(英语二)试题 SectionIUseofEnglish Directions:Readthefollowingpassage.Foreachnumberedblankthere arefourchoicesmarkedA,B, C and D.Choosethebest one andmarkyouranswersonANSWER SHEETl.(10points) The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11,2009.It isthe firstworldwideepidemic__1__bytheWorldHealth Organization in 41years. Theheightened alert ___2__an emergency meetingwith flu experts in Geneva that convened after a sharp rise in casesinAustralia,andrising___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 only mild symptoms and a full recovery, 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 of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic,casesbegan to__9___inNewYork City,the southwesternUnited 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 one million people, andcausedmorethan 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.Morethan threemillion dosesweretobemade available in early October 2009,though most of those __17__doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type,