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Directions: 　　Read the following passage. For each numbered blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET l. (10 points) 　The outbreak of swine（猪） flu that was first detected（检测到的） in Mexico was declared（公开宣布） a global epidemic（传染病） on June 11, 2009. It is the first worldwide epidemic____ designated（特指的） ___ by the World Health Organization in 41 years. The heightened（加重） alert（警告） ____ followed ____an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva（日内瓦） that convened（召集） after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising_____ numbers _____in Britain, Japan, Chile（利智） and elsewhere. But the epidemic is _____ moderate（中等的） _____ in severity（严重）, according to Margaret Chan, the organizations director（主管） general, _____ with _____ the overwhelming（压倒） majority of patients experiencing only mild（轻微的） symptoms（症状） and a full recovery, often in the ____ absence（缺乏） ____ of any medical treatment. The outbreak came to global____ notice ____in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities（当局） noticed an unusually large number of hospitalizations（住院治疗人数） and deaths____ among ____healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic（恐慌）, cases began to _____ crop up（突然出现） ____in New York City, the southwestern United States and around the world. 　　In the United States, new cases seemed to fade_____ as _____warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2009, officials reported there was significant（重大的，有意义的）flu activity in almost every state and that virtually（事实上） all the__ samples __tested are the new swine flu, also known as (A) H1N1, not seasonal flu. In the U.S., it has___ infected ___more than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations. Federal（联邦） health officials（官员）____ released（已发布） ____Tamiflu（克流感） for children from the national stockpile（库存） and began____ taking ___orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine（疫苗）. The new vaccine,