The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11 , 2009. It is the first wo

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问题     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【B1】______by the World Health Organization in 41 years.
    The heightened alert【B2】______an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that assembled after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising【B3】______in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere.
    But the epidemic is"【B4】______"in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organization’s director general ,【B5】______the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in the【B6】______of any medical treatment.
    The outbreak came to global【B7】______in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noted an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths【B8】______healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to【B9】______in New York City, the southwestern United States and around the world.
    In the United States, new cases seemed to fade【B10】______warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2009, officials reported there was【B11】______flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the【B12】______tested are the new swine flu, also known as (A) H1N1 , not seasonal flu. In the U. S. , it has【B13】______more than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6, 000 hospitalizations.
    Federal health officials【B14】______Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began【B15】______orders from the slates for the new swine flu vaccine. The new vaccine, which is different from the annual flu vaccine, is【B16】______ahead of expectations. More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those【B17】______doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is not【B18】______for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, heart disease or several other【B19】______. But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high-risk groups; health care workers, people【B20】______infants and healthy young people.
【B9】

选项 A、stay up
B、crop up
C、fill up
D、cover up

答案B

解析 本题考查考生对固定词组搭配和短语含义的掌握。英语短语的牢固掌握、准确理解及灵活运用一直是英语考查的一个重.最,它们短小、形象、鲜活,所以在英语交流中被广泛使用,在阅读理解、翻译和写作中也有重要作用。所以动词词组的掌握是英语学习的重要组成部分,本题中选项[A] stay up“熬夜,不睡觉”,选项[B]crop up“突然出现,涌现”,选项[C]fill up“充满,填满”和选项[D] cover up“覆盖住,掩盖”都是不同动词和介词up的固定搭配。而根据上下文含义,当墨西哥城由于极度恐慌而几近瘫痪后,在纽约市、美国西南部和世界其他国家应该是出现了更多病例,所以选项[B]crop up“突然出现,涌现”为正确答案。
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