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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Swine flu has killed nearly 10,000 Americans, including 1,100 children and 7,500 younger adults, and infected one in six people in the United States since arriving last April, health officials said on Thursday. Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said more than 200,000 Americans had been hospitalized - about the same number who are affected by seasonal flu in an entire year. "About 15 percent of the entire country has been infected with H1N1 influenza, or about one in six people," Frieden told a media briefing. "That still leaves most people not having been infected and still remaining susceptible to H1N1 influenza, " he said. He said supplies of H1N1 vaccine (疫苗) had continued to improve, and some 85 million doses of the vaccine had been made available for distribution so far, with 12 million more doses added this week. That is up from 73 million doses a week ago - but still far fewer than had been hoped for by this week. Even so, Frieden said vaccine supplies had opened up enough that states were beginning to distribute the vaccine to the general population. He urged people not to be complacent about (沾沾自喜) getting the vaccine because of reports that the current wave of H1N1 influenza is decreasing. "This is still a good window of opportunity to be vaccinated," he said. "Vaccination remains the most important thing you can do to protect yourself and your family from H1N1 influenza." He said the seasonal flu season was beginning and it was not clear what would happen with H1N1 or whether there would be a third wave of the virus in the spring. "We know that the more people who get vaccinated, the lower the likelihood will be of additional cases or a third wave," Frieden said. In a typical year, seasonal influenza kills 36,000 Americans and puts 200,000 into the hospital. |
1. Which of the following is FALSE according to the passage? |
A. Nearly 10,000 Americans, including 1,100 children and 7,500 younger adults died. B. One sixth people in the United States were infected by Swine flu. C. More than 200,000 Americans had been in hospital. D. The American government had distribute most of the vaccine to the general population. |
2. In the sentence "This is still a good window of opportunity to be vaccinated," the " window of opportunity" means ______. |
A. favourable time B. bad luck C. unfortunate occasion D. favourable window |
3. Seasonal influenza ______. |
A. usually cause more deaths and a lot of people in hospital B. will be a third wave in the next spring C. will continue to spread D. will make more people affected |
4. According to the passage, people in America should ______. |
A. forget H1N1 influenza because it is decreasing gradually B. continue to protect themselves and their family from H1N1 influenza though it is decreasing C. be complacent about getting the vaccine because of reports D. often go outdoors |
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1-4: DAAB |
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1. The debate has been raging for years over the safety of, and necessity for, childhood vaccinations, which has been so much so that it is termed "The Vaccine War". The debate has only a few moments that might be inspiring to those who have been following this now familiar issue.______ 2. There are certainly benefits of using a star in a film. It makes the film easier to market. Stars also help sell more tickets and drive DVD sales, which are a big part of studio revenue. However, a star does not guarantee success. The simple fact is that if you pay a star a great deal of money for a film that people don"t want to see, then it won"t work.______ 3. They are barely in their twenties and are already multimillionaires. At the age when many people are looking for their first job, the youngsters of The Sunday Times Rich List are buying country estates or jetting off to their overseas homes. Daniel Radcliffe, for example, who plays Harry Potter, has a fortune of ?42 million, at 20.______ 4. Millions of jobless Americans, who might be suffering in anxiety and lacking a sense of security, are showing up at emergency rooms of state-owned hospitals, contributing to a longer waiting t ime and a higher risk of cursory treatment by overworked doctors and nurses.______ 5. Alice Miller, a psychology expert, who died at 87 at home in Provence, France, on April 14 ,repositioned the family as a central place of abnormal psychological function with her theory that parental power and punishment lay at the root of nearly all human problems.______ |
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MONTREAL (Reuters) -Crossing the US-Canada border (边界) to go to church on a Sunday cost a US citizen $10,000 for breaking Washington"s strict new security (安全) rules. The expensive trip to church was a surprise for Richard Albert, who lives right on the Canadian border. Like the other half-dozen people of Township 15, crossing the border is a daily occurrence for Albert. The nearby Quebec village of St. Pamphile is where they shop, eat and go to church. There are many such situations in these areas along the largely unguarded 5, 530-mile border between Canada and the US, which in some cases actually runs down the middle of streets or through buildings. As a result, Albert says he did not expect any problems three weeks ago when he returned home to the US after attending church in Canada, as usual. The US customs(海关) station in this area is closed on Sundays, so he just drove around the locked gate, as he had done every weekend since the gate appeared last May, following a tightening of border security. Two days later, Albert was told to go to the customs office, where an officer told him he had been caught on camera crossing the border illegally. Ottawa has given out special passes to some 300 US citizens in that area so they can enter the country when Canadian customs stations are closed, but the US stopped a similar program last May. That forces the people to a 200-mile detour along hilly roads to get home through another border checkpoint. Albert has requested that the customs office change their decisions on the fine, but he has not attended a Sunday church since. "I feel like I"m living in a prison," he said. |
1. We learn from the text that Richard Albert is . |
A. an American living in Township 15 B. a Canadian living in a Quebec village C. a Canadian working in a customs station D. an American working in a Canadian church |
2. Albert was fined because he . |
A. failed to obey traffic rules B. broke the American security rules C. worked in St. Pamphile without a pass D. damaged the gate of the customs office |
3. The underlined word "detour" in Paragraph 5 means . |
A. a drive through the town B. a race across the fields C. a roundabout way of traveling D. a journey in the mountain area |
4. What would be the best title for the text? |
A. A Cross-country Trip B. A Special Border Pass C. An Unguarded Border D. An Expensive Church Visit |
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A report, published in last week"s Journal of the American Medical Association, offers a picture of how risky it is to get a lift from a teenage driver. Indeed, a l6-year-old driver with three or more passengers is three times as likely to have a fatal (致命) accident as a teenager driving alone. By contrast, the risk of death for drivers between 30 and 59 decreases with each additional passenger. The author also found that the death rates for teenage drivers increased dramatically after 10 p. m., and especially after midnight. With passengers in the car, the driver was even more likely to die in a late-night accident. Robert Foss, a scientist at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, says the higher death rates for teenage drivers have less to do with "really stupid behavior" than with just a lack of driving experience. "The basic thing," he says, "is that adults who are responsible for issuing (发 放) licenses fail to recognize how skilled a task driving is." Both he and the author of the study believe that the way to reduce the harm is to have so-called graduated licensing systems,in which getting a license is a slower process. A graduated license requires that a teenager first prove himself capable of driving in the presence of an adult, followed by a period of driving at night with a limited number of passengers before graduating to get a full driving license. Graduated licensing systems have reduced teenage driver crashes,according to recent studies. About half of the states now have some sort of graduated licensing system in place, but only 10 of those states have number limitation on passengers. California is the strictest, with a new driver prohibited from carrying any passenger under 20 for the first six months. |
1.Which of the following situations is most dangerous according to the passage? |
A. Adults giving a lift to teenagers on the highway after l0 p.m. B. A teenager driving after midnight with passengers in the car. C. Adults driving with three or more teenage passengers late at night. D. A teenager getting a lift from a stranger on the highway at midnight. |
2. According to Robert Foss,the high death rate of teenage drivers is mainly due to ________. |
A. their frequent driving at night B. their lack of driving experience C. their improper way of driving D. their driving with passengers |
3.Which of the following statements is true according to Paragraph 3? |
A. Teenagers should spend more time learning to drive. B. Driving is a skill too difficult for teenagers to learn. C. Teenagers should be limited in taking driving lessons. D. People issuing license are partly responsible for the accidents. |
4. A suggested measure to be taken to reduce teenagers" driving accidents is that ________. |
A. driving in the presence of an adult should be made a rule B. they should be forbidden to take on passengers C. they should not be allowed to drive after l0 p. m. D. the licensing systems should be improved |
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Making them sweeter JAPANESE scientists have developed a special kind of tomato. It can change an eater"s sense of taste,says a report in Science News. For about an hour after a person eats one of the tomatoes,sour foods taste sweet. Say you eat one of the tomatoes before lunch. Then you take a bite of a lemon (柠檬). You will find that the lemon tastes like super-sweet lemonade. How magical is that ! The key ingredient in the taste-changing tomatoes is " miraculin (非洲奇果蛋白 ) ". Miraculin is found in berries that grow in West Africa. These fruits are sometimes sold as " Miracle(奇迹) Fruit" berries. People have long known about the ability of miracle berries to change taste. In some countries,the berries are used as a way to help people lose weight: For example,a dieter can eat a berry and then eat low-calorie sour foods that will taste wonderfully sweet. Scientists found miraculin in the miracle berry in 1968. Since then,people have wondered how to manufacture it. One way could be to harvest the berries. The problem was that if demand got too large, the berry plants could be driven to extinction. That"s where the Japanese scientists came in. Professor Kazuhisa Kato and his team at the University of Tsukuba studied the DNA of the miracle berry. They found a gene(基因) that contained the instructions for how to make miraculin. Kato and other researchers put the gene for miraculin into the DNA of a tomato. As a result,the tomatoes started to make miraculin. Those tomatoes had just as much miraculin as miracle berries do. These "miracle" tomatoes could be grown in large numbers. If scientists can grow other foods with miraculin inside,then there won"t be any need to harvest all the miracle berries. The researchers don"t know yet how the tomato-based miraculin can be used. Perhaps it could be sold as a dieting food,to be taken before meals. |
1. The tomato is special in that___. |
A. it tums all tastes sweet B. it can only be eaten before lunch C. it changes a sour taste to a sweet one D. it has a magical ingredient |
2. According to the article,the Japanese scientists____. |
A. found a gene that contained instructions for making miraculin B. discovered the secrets of miracle fruit berries in 1968 C. have planted miracle tomatoes in large numbers D. invented the miraculin gene and put it into the tomato= |
3. According to the article,which of the following statements is TRUE? |
A. It was a latest discovery that miracle berries could change taste. B. The tomato is a low-calorie fruit that tastes wonderfully sweet. C. Scientists have already found many uses for mariculin. D. The tomato-based miraculin might help people lose weight,so it might be used as a dieting food. |
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MONTREAL (Reuters)-Crossing the US-Canada border (边界) to go to church on a Sunday cost a US citizen $10,000 for breaking Washington"s strict new security(安全) rules.The expensive trip to church was a surprise for Richard Al-bert, who lives right on the Canadian border. Like the other half-dozen people of Township 15, crossing the border is a daily occurrence for Albert. The nearby Quebec village of St. Pamphile is where they shop, eat and go to church. There are many such situations in these areas along the largely unguarded 5,530 mile border between Canada and the US which in some cases actually runs down the middle of streets or throughbuildings. As a result, Albert said he did not expect any problems three weeks ago when he returned home to the US after attending church in Canada, as usual. The US customs (海关) station in this area is closed on Sundays, so he just drove around the locked gate, as he had done every weekend since the gate appeared last May, following a tightening of border security. Two days later, Albert was told to go to the customs office, where an officer told him he had been caught on camera crossing the border illegally(非法). Ottawa has given out special passes to some 300 US citizens in that area so they can enter the country when Canadian customs stations are closed, but the US stopped a similar program last May.That forces the people to a 200 mile detour along hilly roads to get home through another border check point. Albert has requested that the customs office change its decisions on the fine, but he has not attended a Sunday church since. "I feel like I"m living in a prison," he said. |
1. We learn from the text that Richard Albert is_______. |
A. an American living in Township 15 B. a Canadian living in a Quebec village C. a Canadian working in a customs station D. an American working in a Canadian church |
2. Albert was fined because he_______. |
A. failed to obey traffic rules B. broke the American security rules C. worked in St. Pamphile without a pass D. damaged the gate of the customs office |
3. The underlined word " detour" in Paragraph 5 means______. |
A. a drive through the town B. a race across the fields C. a roundabout way of travelling D. a journey in the mountain area |
4. What would be the best title for the text? |
A. A Cross-country Trip. B. A Special Border Pass. C. An Unguarded Border. D. An Expensive Church Visit. |
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