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.
【B18】

选项 A、presented
B、restricted
C、recommended
D、introduced

答案C

解析 本题考查考生的词汇掌握能力。本题要求考生填入用于被动语态的动词,其后有介词for,提示考生注意动词和介词的搭配。选项[A]presented“提交;展现”需与介词with或to搭配,选项[B]restricted“限制”和选项[D]introduced“引进,介绍”均需接介词to,只有选项[C]recommended“推荐;建议”可以接介词for,并且适合题意,故为正确答案。全句的意思是“最初发放的鼻喷雾流感疫苗(FluMist)不建议孕期女性、50岁以上人士以及有呼吸困难、心脏疾病或其他疾病的人士使用。”
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