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An epidemic of swine flu (猪流感) has recently developed in Mexico and the Unit
An epidemic of swine flu (猪流感) has recently developed in Mexico and the Unit
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2024-05-22
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An epidemic of swine flu (猪流感) has recently developed in Mexico and the United States, says the CDC. Swine flu has killed many people, and the outbreak has features that suggest it could become a global pandemic (瘟疫). A pandemic is an epidemic that spreads around the whole world. Pandemics also often cause more severe disease than epidemics.
Flu is a disease caused by the influenza virus. Humans, pigs, birds and other animals all can be infected by influenza viruses. Typically, influenza viruses can infect only one species, so the influenza viruses of humans are different from those of pigs and birds. However, sometimes a virus can infect more than one species. For examples, pigs sometimes can be infected not only with pig influenza viruses, but also with human and bird influenza viruses. Then these viruses can come up to one another secretly and swap (交换) genes, creating new viruses that have a mix of genes — from human, pig, and bird viruses. That is what has happened with this new swine flu virus.
Sometimes this swapping of genes allows a virus that was originally able to infect only pigs or only birds to also infect humans. When that happens, we refer to the illness as "swine flu" or "bird flu". This current virus could actually be called "swine/bird flu", since it has some genes from pig flu viruses and other genes from bird flu viruses.
Most viruses that cause swine flu or bird flu are very hard to pass from one human to another: they don’t cause epidemics. Sometimes, however, further changes in genes create a virus that can spread rapidly among humans, and can produce a more severe illness. One reason this illness is more severe is that the virus is so new. The regular flu that comes each year is caused by a regular human influenza virus that often has similarities to the viruses that have caused the flu in years past, so people have some degree of immunity to the latest virus. The unusual swine flu or bird flu viruses that develop the ability for person-to-person spread are so different that people have little or no immunity to them.
The worst global pandemic in modern times was the influenza pandemic of 1918 to 1919. It affected about a third of the human race, and killed at least 40 million people in less than a year — more than those who have been killed by AIDS in three decades. The world economy went into a deep recession. The average length of life dropped for 10 years.
Unfortunately, the new swine flu virus can be transmitted between humans. It is not clear yet how easily it is transmitted, nor how it is transmitted. Almost surely it is transmitted by sneezing and coughing, and by skin-to-skin contact with an infected person. [br] What do we know about the swine flu virus from the last paragraph?
选项
A、It is not quite sure if it can spread among persons.
B、It is not quite sure how it is transmitted.
C、Surely it is transmitted by sneezing or coughing.
D、Surely it is transmitted by skin contact.
答案
B
解析
根据题干中的from the last paragraph,将本题出处直接定位在最后一段。原文说,这种新的猪流感病毒可以人际传播,排除[A]。但传播速度和途径还不清楚(It is not clear yet how easily it is transmitted,nor how it istransmitted.),[B]项正确,其中的not quite sure对应原文中的not clear。[C]和[D]的内容在原文中可以找到,但是原文说这些东西是“几乎可以肯定的Almostsurely)”,与[C]和[D]项中的“Surely”说法不同。
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