考研英语二历年真题电子版
Section I Use of English Directions : Read the following passage . For each numbered blank there are four choices marked A , B , C and D . Choose the best one and mark your answers on ANSWERSHEETI . ( 10 points ) The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global pandemic on June 11 , 2009 , in the first designation by the World Health Organization of a worldwide pandemic in 41 years . The heightened alert came after an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that convened after a sharp rise in cases in Australia , and rising numbers in Britain , Japan , Chile and elsewhere . But the pandemic is " moderate " in severity , according to Margaret Chan , the organization ' s director general , with the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery , often in the absence of any medical treatment . The outbreak came to global notice in late April 2009 , when Mexican authorities noticed an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths among healthy adults . As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic , cases began to crop up in New York City , the southwestern United States and around the world . In the United States , new cases seemed to fade as warmer weather arrived . But in late September 2009 , officials reported there was significant flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the samples tested are the new swine flu , also known as ( A ) H1 N1 , not seasonal flu . @ Zov & 0 1 In the U . S . , it has infected more than one million people , and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6 , 000 hospitalizations . Federal health officials released Tamillu for children from the national stockpile and began taking orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine . The new vaccine , which is different from the annual flu vaccine , is available ahead of expectations . More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009 , though most of those initial doses were of the Flu Mist nasal spray type , which is not recommended for pregnant women , people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties , heart disease or several other problems . But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high - risk group : health care workers ,