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In 1957 a doctor in Singapore noticed that hospitals were treating an unusual number of influenza-like cases. Influenza is somet
In 1957 a doctor in Singapore noticed that hospitals were treating an unusual number of influenza-like cases. Influenza is somet
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2011-02-25
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问题
In 1957 a doctor in Singapore noticed that hospitals were treating an unusual number of influenza-like cases. Influenza is sometimes called “flu” or a “bad cold”. He took samples from the throats of patients in his hospital and was able to find the virus of this influenza.
There are three main types of the influenza virus. The most important of these are types A and B, each of them having several sub-groups. With the instruments at the hospital the doctor recognized that the outbreak was due to a virus group A, but he did not know the sub-group. He reported the outbreak to the World Health Organization in Geneva. W. H.O. published the important news alongside reports of a similar outbreak in Hong Kong, where about 15%—20% of the population had become ill.
As soon as the London doctors received the package of throat samples, they began the standard tests. They found that by reproducing itself at very high speed, the virus had multiplied more than a million times within two days. Continuing their careful tests, the doctors checked the effect of drugs used against all the known sub-groups of virus type A. None of them gave any protection. This then, was something new: a new influenza virus against which the people of the world had no ready help whatsoever. Having isolated the virus they were working with, the two doctors now dropped it into the noses of some specially selected animals, which contact influenza in the same way as human beings do. In a short time the usual signs of the disease appeared. These experiments revealed that the new virus spread easily, but that it was not a killer. Scientists, like the general public, called it simply “Asian” flu.
The first discovery of the virus, however, was made in China before the disease had appeared in other countries. Various reports showed that the influenza outbreak started in China, probably in February of 1957. By the middle of March it had spread all over China. The virus was found by Chinese doctors early in March. But China was not a member of the World Health Organization and therefore did not report outbreaks of disease to it. Not until two months later, when travelers carried the virus into Hong Kong, from where it spread to Singapore, did the news of the outbreak reach the rest of the world. By this time it was started on its way around the world.
Thereafter, WHO’s Weekly Reports described the steady spread of this virus outbreak, which within four months swept through every continent.
The Singapore doctor found the influenza was caused by
选项
A、an influenza virus type BH
B、a sub-group of virus type A
C、a virus only existing in Asia.
D、a new type of influenza virus.
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。由第二段第三句话...the doctor recognized that the outbreak was due to a virus group A, but he did not know the sub-group可知,新加坡医生发现此流感是由A型病毒的某个亚型引起的,故答案为[B]。题干中的caused by即为due to之意。[D]为强干扰项,但 [D]是两名伦敦医生得出的结论,是对新流感的定义,而非引起流感的原因,故排除。
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