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【題目】 In the winter of 1910, Dr. Wu Lien-Teh stepped off a train in the northern Chinese city of Harbin. He was there to solve a medical mystery, at great personal risk. Over the past few months, an unknown disease had swept along the railways of northeast China, killing 99.9% of its victims. The Qing Imperial court had sent the Cambridge-educated Dr. Wu north to stop the epidemic.

When Dr Wu arrived in Harbin on Christmas Eve, 1910, he carried little in the way of medical instruments and had only one assistant. One of Wu' s first acts upon arrival was to set up special quarantine(隔離) units and to order lockdowns to stop infected persons from traveling and spreading the disease. He had teams check households for possible cases, and even managed to convince authorities to completely close the railways in the early weeks of 1911. Of particular concern was the upcoming Chinese New Year holiday, which had become a great annual migration of people traveling across the country to see their families.

Thanks to Dr. Wu's efforts, the number of plague victims began to die down, and by March 1, 1911, the epidemic was fully contained. The pneumonic (肺炎的) plague outbreak of 1910-1911 lasted nearly four months, affected five provinces and six major cities, and accounted for over 60,000 deaths. It is clear that without the brave and decisive actions taken by Dr. Wu, it could have been much worse. Had the epidemic gone unchecked, allowing holiday rail passengers to spread the disease to the rest of China could have meant a catastrophic loss of life and possibly a global health crisis.

In April 1911, Dr. Wu chaired an International Plague Conference in Shenyang, attended by scientists from 11 counties including the United States, Great Britain, Russia, Japan and France. They praised Dr. Wu for his handling of the 1910-1911 outbreak. For a time, Dr. Wu was the world's most famous plague fighter, a title be defended in a malaria epidemic in China in 1919, and a return of plague in 1921.

【1】What was Dr Wu's mission in 1910?

A.To take personal risk.

B.To end an epidemic.

C.To provide medical education.

D.To investigate the number of victims.

【2】Which of Dr Wu's acts stopped the disease from spreading nationwide?

A.Setting up special quarantine units around the country.

B.Treating infected persons with his medical instruments.

C.Checking households himself for possible cases.

D.Convincing authorities to close the railways.

【3】What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?

A.The disease worsened after Mach 1, 1911.

B.60,000 would have died without Dr Wu's efforts.

C.A global health crisis followed the 1910-1911 outbreak.

D.The plague broke out again about 10 years later.

【4】What can be the best title of the text?

A.A Plague Fighter

B.A Global Health Crisis

C.The Beginning of the Chinese Public Health System

D.A Plague Outbreak

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】D

【4】A

【解析】

這是一篇記敘文。文章介紹了“抗疫斗士”伍連德博士的相關(guān)事跡。1910年，伍連德博士帶著抗擊疫情的醫(yī)學(xué)任務(wù)來(lái)到哈爾濱。在伍博士的努力下，瘟疫的受害者人數(shù)下降并完全得到控制。如果疫情沒(méi)有得到控制，疾病傳播到中國(guó)其他地區(qū)，可能意味著災(zāi)難性的生命損失。因此伍博士為抗擊疫情做出了巨大貢獻(xiàn)。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段的最后一句話The Qing Imperial court had sent the Cambridge-educated Dr. Wu north to stop the epidemic.(清朝廷派劍橋大學(xué)畢業(yè)的伍博士北上，以阻止疫情的蔓延。)可知1910年伍博士的使命是去結(jié)束這場(chǎng)流行病。故選B項(xiàng)。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段中的He had teams check households for possible cases, and even managed to convince authorities to completely close the railways in the early weeks of 1911. Of particular concern was the upcoming Chinese New Year holiday, which had become a great annual migration of people traveling across the country to see their families.(他讓一些小組檢查家庭是否有可能發(fā)生這種情況，甚至說(shuō)服當(dāng)局在1911年的前幾周徹底關(guān)閉鐵路。特別值得關(guān)注的是即將到來(lái)的春節(jié)假期，這已經(jīng)成為全國(guó)各地旅游探親者每年的一次大遷徙。)可知伍博士的說(shuō)服當(dāng)局關(guān)閉鐵路的行為阻止了這種疾病在全國(guó)的傳播。故選D項(xiàng)。

【3】推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段中的For a time, Dr. Wu was the world’s most famous plague fighter, a title be defended in a malaria epidemic in China in 1919, and a return of plague in 1921. (有一段時(shí)間，伍博士是世界上最著名的抗疫斗士，1919年在中國(guó)的一場(chǎng)瘧疾疫情中，伍博士的“抗疫斗士”頭銜被捍衛(wèi)，1921年疫情又卷土重來(lái)。)可知在1911年疫情結(jié)束大約10年后,瘟疫再次爆發(fā)。故選D項(xiàng)。

【4】主旨大意題。根據(jù)第三段中的Thanks to Dr. Wu’s efforts, the number of plague victims began to die down, and by March 1, 1911, the epidemic was fully contained. (在伍博士的努力下，瘟疫的受害者人數(shù)開(kāi)始下降，到1911年3月1日，瘟疫完全得到控制。)及最后一段中的For a time, Dr. Wu was the world’s most famous plague fighter, (有一段時(shí)間，伍博士是世界上最著名的抗疫斗士)及總覽全文可知文章主要描述了“抗疫斗士”伍連德博士的偉大抗疫事跡。因此A項(xiàng)(抗疫戰(zhàn)士)為最佳標(biāo)題。故選A項(xiàng)。