[不定项选择题]共用题干 The Spanish Flu Epidemic
If you're worried about the possibility of a coming bird flu epidemic,you can take
comfort in the fact that humanity has survived a similar influenza epidemic in the past.
Starting its rounds at the end of World War!,the 1918 flu killed an estimated 50 million
people.
Popularly known as the Spanish Flu,this type of influenza was far worse than your
common cold.Normally,influenza only kills those who are more vulnerable to disease,
such as newborns,the old or the sick.However,the Spanish Flu was prone to kill the
young and healthy.Often it would disable its victims in hours;within a day,they would be
dead,typically from extreme cases of pneumonia（肺炎）.
The Spanish Flu was quite nasty-fast-spreading and deadly. It managed to spread
across the globe,devastating the world.Then suddenly,after two years ravaging（蹂躏）
the Earth,it disappeared as quickly as it had arisen.
Despite its nickname,the Spanish Flu did not originate in Spain.Its true origins are
unknown.Some believe it started in US forts and then spread to Europe as America joined
the war;others think that it populated the trenches of the English and the French and
eventually broke out in 1918.Regardless of where it started,eventually a fifth of the world
population suffered the disease,with a global mortality rate（死亡率）estimated at 2. 5% of
the population.
Modernity was partly to blame for the quick spread of the disease.It passed throughout
the world on trade routes and shipping lines.It hit Northern America,Europe,Asia,Africa
and the South Pacific.The war did not help at all一the movement of supplies and troops
aided the spread of the Spanish Flu,as well as the trench warfare:!magine the speed at
which a virus can spread in a crowded ditch.The fast emergence of the virus in the
trenches caused some soldiers to believe that the Spanish Flu was a new form of biological
warfare.
Luckily,the Spanish Flu simply vanished by 1920.It is believed the flu simply ran out
of fuel to spread. Biological warfare originated in the 20th century.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned

[不定项选择题]共用题干 The Spanish Flu Epidemic
If you're worried about the possibility of a coming bird flu epidemic,you can take
comfort in the fact that humanity has survived a similar influenza epidemic in the past.
Starting its rounds at the end of World War!,the 1918 flu killed an estimated 50 million
people.
Popularly known as the Spanish Flu,this type of influenza was far worse than your
common cold.Normally,influenza only kills those who are more vulnerable to disease,
such as newborns,the old or the sick.However,the Spanish Flu was prone to kill the
young and healthy.Often it would disable its victims in hours;within a day,they would be
dead,typically from extreme cases of pneumonia（肺炎）.
The Spanish Flu was quite nasty-fast-spreading and deadly. It managed to spread
across the globe,devastating the world.Then suddenly,after two years ravaging（蹂躏）
the Earth,it disappeared as quickly as it had arisen.
Despite its nickname,the Spanish Flu did not originate in Spain.Its true origins are
unknown.Some believe it started in US forts and then spread to Europe as America joined
the war;others think that it populated the trenches of the English and the French and
eventually broke out in 1918.Regardless of where it started,eventually a fifth of the world
population suffered the disease,with a global mortality rate（死亡率）estimated at 2. 5% of
the population.
Modernity was partly to blame for the quick spread of the disease.It passed throughout
the world on trade routes and shipping lines.It hit Northern America,Europe,Asia,Africa
and the South Pacific.The war did not help at all一the movement of supplies and troops
aided the spread of the Spanish Flu,as well as the trench warfare:!magine the speed at
which a virus can spread in a crowded ditch.The fast emergence of the virus in the
trenches caused some soldiers to believe that the Spanish Flu was a new form of biological
warfare.
Luckily,the Spanish Flu simply vanished by 1920.It is believed the flu simply ran out
of fuel to spread. About half of the people in the world suffered from the Spanish Flu.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned

[不定项选择题]共用题干 Swine Flu in New York

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CD C)has confirmed cases of swine（猪）_______(51)
in eight students at a New York preparatory（预科的）school, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday. The
students have had only_________(52) symptoms and none have been hospitalized,he said.Some of the
students have already recovered.
More than 100 students were absent from_______(53)due to flu-like symptoms last week.New York
health officials tested samples for eight students on Saturday and determined the students were
probably________(54)from swine flu,and the CDC confirmed the________(55)on Sunday,Bloomberg
said.
The announcement brings the ______(56) of confirmed swine flu eases in the United States to 20.
Bloomberg said there is no ________(57)of a citywide outbreak( ~K) of the flu,and no sign of a potential
outhreak of swine fiu at ___________( 58) schools.
Some students at the school_________(59) spring break in Mexico,Bloomberg gaid,bur authorities have
not determined _______( 60) any of the students with a confirmed ease of swine flu was in Mexico. Someone
who traveled to Mexico may not have had any flu symptoms but________(61) on the flu to someone else,he
noted.
Bloomberg called on students who are homesick to________(62) home for 48 hours after their
symptoms go away.
If symptoms are normal for a regular kind of
flu ， there is________(63) need to go to a hospital,said
Bloomberg. If symptoms become severe, as__________(64) any illness,people should go to the hospital,he
said.
St. Francis,which has 2,700 students,announced it will remam closed for two days.________(65)
whether the students' illnesses have been minor because they're young and healthy or because it is a minor
strain（菌株）of the virus,Bloomberg responded,"We don't know." _________(65)
A.Told
B.Tested
C.Greeted
D.Asked