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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上讲该项涂黑。
A Race Against Death
It was a cold January in 1925 in North Alaska. The town was cut off from the rest of the world due to heavy snow.
On the 20th of that month, Dr.Welch   36   a Sick boy, Billy, and knew he had diphtheria, a deadly infectious(传染的)disease mainly affecting children. The children of Nome would be  37  if it struck the town. Dr.Welch needed medicine as soon as possible to stop other kids from getting sick.   38  , the closest supply was over 1,000 miles away, in Anchorage.
How could the medicine get to Nome? The town`s  39  was already full of ice, so it couldn`t come by ship. Cars and horses couldn`t travel on the   40  roads. Jet airplanes and big trucks didn`t exist yet.
41  January 26, Billy and three other children had died. Twemty more were   42  . Nome`s town officials came up wi
A. find
B. fix
C. pass
D. change

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上讲该项涂黑。
A Race Against Death
It was a cold January in 1925 in North Alaska. The town was cut off from the rest of the world due to heavy snow.
On the 20th of that month, Dr.Welch   36   a Sick boy, Billy, and knew he had diphtheria, a deadly infectious(传染的)disease mainly affecting children. The children of Nome would be  37  if it struck the town. Dr.Welch needed medicine as soon as possible to stop other kids from getting sick.   38  , the closest supply was over 1,000 miles away, in Anchorage.
How could the medicine get to Nome? The town`s  39  was already full of ice, so it couldn`t come by ship. Cars and horses couldn`t travel on the   40  roads. Jet airplanes and big trucks didn`t exist yet.
41  January 26, Billy and three other children had died. Twemty more were   42  . Nome`s town officials came up wi
A. examined
B. warned
C. interviewed
D. cured