2023年最新版考研英语二真题和答案
Read the following passage . For each numbered blank there are four choices marked A , B , C and D . Choose thebest one and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET l . ( 10 points ) The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11 , 2023 . It is thefirst worldwide epidemic _ 1 _ by the World Health Organization in 41 years . The heightened alert _ 2 _ an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that convened after a sharp rise incases in Australia , and rising _ 3 _ in Britain , Japan , Chile and elsewhere . But the epidemic is " _ 4 _ " in severity , according to Margaret Chan , the organization ' s director general , _ 5 _ the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery , often in the _ 6 _ of any medical treatment . The outbreak came to global _ 7 _ in late April 2023 , when Mexican authorities noticed an unusually largenumber of hospitalizations and deaths _ 8 _ healthy adults . As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of apanic , cases began to _ 9 _ in New York City , the southwestern United States and around the world . In the United States , new cases seemed to fade _ 10 _ warmer weather arrived . But in late September 2023 , officials reported there was _ 11 _ flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the _ 12 _ testedare the new swine flu , also known as ( A ) H1 N1 , not seasonal flu . In the U . S . , it has _ 13 _ more than one millionpeople , and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6 , 000 hospitalizations . Federal health officials _ 14 _ Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began _ 15 _ ordersfrom the states for the new swine flu vaccine . The new vaccine , which is different from the annual flu vaccine , is _ 16 _ ahead of expectations . More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2023 , though most of those _ 17 _ doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type , which is not _ 18 _ for pregnantwomen , people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties , heart disease or several other _ 19 _ . But it was stillpossible to vaccinate people in other high - risk group : health care workers , people _ 20 _ infants and healthyyoung people . 1 [ A ] criticized [ B ] appointed [ C ] commented [ D ] designated 2 [ A ] proceeded [ B ] activated [ C ]