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

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

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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【C1】________by the World Health Organization in 41 years.
    The heightened alert【C2】________an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that convened after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising【C3】________in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere.
    But the epidemic is "【C4】________" in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organization’s director general,【C5】________the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in the【C6】________of any medical treatment.
    The outbreak came to global【C7】________in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noticed an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths【C8】________healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to【C9】________in New York City, the southwestern United States and around the world.
    In the United States, new cases seemed to fade【C10】________warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2009, officials reported there was【C11】________flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the【C12】________ tested are the new swine flu, also known as (A) H1N1, not seasonal flu. In the U.S., it has【C13】________more than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations.
    Federal health officials【C14】________Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began【C15】________ orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine. The new vaccine, which is different from the annual flu vaccine, is【C16】________ahead of expectations. More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those【C17】________doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is not 【C18】________for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, heart disease or several other【C19】________. But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high-risk group: health care workers, people【C20】________infants and healthy young people.
【C3】
选项 A、digits
B、numbers
C、amounts
D、sums
答案B
解析 本填空考查名词辨析(对应成分分析法)。首先本填空处在一个很对称的句子结构中，整个句子由and平分为左右两部分，根据句子的对应成分分析可以定位本填空的成分对应的原文已知信息为a sharp rise in cases，并且本填空的词汇对应的是cases。cases这里指的是病例数，则本填空的名词肯定也是这个意思，最佳答案是B项numbers，因为语法上numbers表达可数名词的“数量”，这里指的是病患的数量，最符合与cases的对称关系。其他选项例如A项digits(数字)表达的意思是阿拉伯数字，不表示具体的数量。C项amounts用于表示不可数名词的“数量”。而D项sums一般表达的是金额的意思，均无法表达病患的数量的意思。
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