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Unit 5 (Para. 1) It was a year ago that the term H1N1 entered the American consciousness. In April 2009, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered that two children in California had been infected with a new strain of influenza virus — originally dubbed “swine flu” but eventually and more accurately known as H1N1— 　even as Mexican health officials grappled with major outbreaks of a new flulike illness. By the end of the month, with new cases popping up in New York City, Canada and Europe, officials had come to realize they had a global emergency on their hands. 正是一年前，美国人才意识甲流这个词的。2009年4月，美国疾病控制与预防中心的研究人员发现，两名加利福尼亚儿童感染了一种新型流感病毒，起初人们称它为“猪流感”，正当墨西哥卫生官员称其为一场新型流感病毒的大爆发时，研究人员最终将其确认为甲流病毒。截止到当月底，伴随着新增感染病例在纽约、加拿大和欧洲各国的不断涌现，政府才意识到他们所面临情况的刻不容缓。 (Para. 2) Within weeks, the H1N1 virus was spreading around the world, and by June the World Health Organization (WHO) had raised the alert level again, officially declaring an influenza pandemic. 数周内，甲流病毒的阴影波及全球，到六月底，世界卫生组织已经再次提高其警戒指数，正式宣布为流行性感冒。 Since most people had no immune protection against the H1N1 virus, which had been simmering in swine populations for years before jumping into human beings in Mexico, it spread rapidly. 鉴于大部分人群并没有针对甲流病毒的免疫防护，而当病毒在墨西哥地区大规模传播之前，已经在大量猪群中疯狂扩散。(Para. 3)U.S. cases piled up in late spring, and both the sick and the “worried well” flooded hospitals, taxing health care resources. 美国地区的感染病例在春末迅速激增，患者和担心自己被感染者把医院围的水泄不通，给卫生保健资源带来了巨大财政压力。 Schools shut down, sometimes for weeks, to stem the spread of the disease, leaving millions of schoolchildren — and their parents —stranded at home. In other countries, the response was more severe: in Mexico, the government banned public gatherings; in China, travelers from affected regions who showed signs of flu were quarantined. 学校被迫关闭长达数周，为了阻止疾病的传播，数百万学生和他们的家长在家中束手无策。其他国家的状况更加危急：在墨西哥，政府已经禁止了各种公众聚会；在中国，凡是来自感染地区的旅游者，只有出现流感症状，立刻实施隔离。 (Para. 4)From the start, the vast majority of H1N1 cases seemed relatively mild, but offi