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1、2010年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试(英语二)试题Section I USE of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET1.(10 points)The outbreak of swine flu that was first deteccted in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on june 11,2009. It is the f
2、irst wotldwide cpidemic_1_by the World Health Organization in41years.The heightened alert _2_an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that assembled after a sharp pise in cases in Australia.and rising _3_in Britain ,japan,Chile and elsewhere.Bur the epiemic is “_4_”in severity. According to M
3、argaret Chan. The organizations director general,_5_the overwhelming majorty of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and full recovery. Often in the_6_of any medical treatment.The ourbreak came to gobal_7_in lafe April2009.when Mexican authorities noted an unusually latge number of hospitalizati
4、ons and deaths_8_ healthy adults. As much ofMexico City Shut down at the height of a panic,cases began to_9_in New York City.the southwestem United States and atound the world.In the United States, new cases seemed to fade_10_warmer weather arrived.But in late September 2009,officials reported there
5、 was_11_flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the_12_tested are the new swine flu. Also known as(A)H1N1,not seasonal flu.In the U.S.,It has_13_more than one million people,and caused mone than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations.Federal health officials _14_ Tamiflu f
6、or children from the national stockpile and began _15_ orders from the atates 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 2009,though most of those _
7、17_doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type,which is not _18_ for pregnant women,people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties,heart disease or several other_19_.But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high-risk groups;health care workers,people _20_infants and healthy young p
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11、 each passage by choosing A, B, C and D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text1The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever”, at Sothebys in London on September 15th 2008 (se
12、e picture). All but two pieces sold, fetching more than 70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last hurrah. As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy.The world art market had already been losing momentu
13、m for a while after rising vertiginously since 2003. At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm-double the figure five years earlier. Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. But the market generates interest far beyo
14、nd its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirsts sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable, especially in New York, where the bail-out of the banks
15、coincided with the loss of thousands of jobs and the financial demise of many art-buying investors. In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector-for Chinese contemporary art-they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008. Within weeks the worlds two biggest auction houses, Sothebys and Christies, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees t
