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Thousands of persons in Peru are suffering from the disease cholera. Medical experts say it is the first time in their century that cholera has reached the western part of the world. The United States Centers for disease control says the kind of cholera has been spreading throughout the world since 1961. It was discovered that year in Indonesia. Since the first case in Peru, more than sixteen thousand people have been affected and about one hundred have died.

Cholera is caused by polluted food and water. People become infected (传染) when they eat the polluted food or drink the polluted water. If untreated immediately, they may die within hours. Most victims however, can be saved. Treatment includes drugs and replacement of body fluids (液体) directly into the blood.

Medical researchers have developed a vaccine (菌苗) medicines to protect against cholera. But the vaccine is only about 50% effective. And it protects against cholera for only about six months. Medical experts say the best way to fight cholera is to prevent it. They also say people should not eat uncooked food or food that has not been cooked long enough. People who live in areas where cholera has been found should wash their hands before eating and cooking. They should drink only water that has been boiled or made pure with chemicals.

1.The underlined word “Cholera” in the first paragraph means ________.

A. a certain place in Peru

B. a kind of illness which may make people die

C. a certain place in Indonesia

D. a certain medicine to deal with diseases

2.Cholera results from (由于……结果) ________.

A. Peru and Indonesia

B. the different peoples in the world

C. the different areas in the world

D. polluted water and polluted food

3.How to treat the people who have been caught by cholera?

A. By medicines and blood improvement.

B. By eating unpolluted food.

C. By drinking unpolluted water.

D. By taking them to a separated place.

4.The most effective way of avoiding cholera is ________.

A. seeing doctors as soon as possible

B. fighting against it

C. paying attention to the eating and drinking

D. taking vaccine immediately

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Thousands of persons in Peru are suffering from the disease cholera. Medical experts say it is the first time in their century that cholera has reached the western part of the world. The Untied States Centers for disease Control says the kind of cholera has been spreading throughout the world since 1961. It was discovered that year in Indonesia. Since the first case in Peru, more than sixteen thousand people have been affected and about one hundred have died.

Cholera is caused by polluted food and water. People become infected (传染 ) when they eat the polluted food or drink the polluted water. If untreated immediately, they may die within hours. Most victims however , can be saved. treatment includes drugs and replacement of body fluids ( 液体) directly into the blood.

Medical researchers have developed a vaccine ( 菌苗) medicines to protect against cholera. But the vaccine is only about 50% effective. And it protects against cholera for only about six months. Medical experts say the best way to fight cholera is to prevent it. They also say people should not eat uncooked food or food that has not been cooked long enough. People who live in areas where cholera has been found should wash their hands before eating and cooking. They should drink only water that has been boiled or made pure with chemicals.

1.The underlined word Cholera in the first paragraph means____.

A. a certain place in Peru　　 B. a kind of illness which may make people die.

C. a certain place in Indonesia　　 D. A certain medicine to deal with diseases.

2.Cholera results from (由于……结果 ) _____.

A. Peru and Indonesia　　 B. the different peoples in the world

C. the different areas in the world　　 D. polluted water and polluted food

3.How to treat the people who have been caught by cholera? _____.

A. By medicines and blood improvement　　 B. By eating unpolluted food

C. By drinking unpolluted water　　 D. By taking them to a separated place

4.The most effective way of avoiding cholera is ____.

A. seeing doctors as soon as possible

B. fighting against it

C. paying attention to the eating and drinking

D. taking vaccine immediately

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Children exposed to air pollution are more________to suffering from different diseases.

A．possible       B．probable       C．likely         D．certainly

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_______ and no way to reduce her pain and suffering from the terrible disease, the patient sought her doctor’s help to end her life.

A．Having given up hope of cure      B．With no hope for cure

C．There being hope for cure         D．In the hope of cure

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Some people worry about being the target of laughter. These people are frightened. They suffer from an emotional disorder called gelotophobia. That long name comes from the Greek language. The word Gelos means laugh, while phobos means fear.

Victor Rubio is an expert on human behavior at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He says people laugh at others for many different reasons. He says being laughed at causes a fear response in the victim. That fear leads the victim to avoid social situations. Sadly, gelotophobia limits the way they lead their lives.

Victor Rubio was among researchers in a huge international study about laughter. The researchers wanted to understand the difference between normal shyness and true gelotophobia. Another goal was to measure the fear of being laughed at within different cultures.

A team from the University of Zurich led ninety-three researchers from many countries in search of answers.

The researchers surveyed more than twenty-two thousand people. They used questions provided in forty-two languages. Their findings were reported in the scientific publication Humor.

Some of the people questioned said they felt unsure of themselves in social situations. But they hid their feelings. Others said they avoided social situations where they had been laughed at before. People also admitted to differing levels of fear that they themselves were the targets of other people’s laughter. The researchers measured and compared all these reactions.

Fear of being laughed at, being made fun of, is a common emotion. But the researchers learned that these feelings differed from nation to nation.

For example, the study found that people in Turkmenistan and Cambodia are likely to hide insecure (不安) feelings when they are around others’ laughter. But people in Iraq, Egypt and Jordan who feel they have been victims before may avoid such situations.

People in Finland were the least likely to believe that people laughing in their presence were making fun of them. Only eight and a half percent of Finns said they would – compared to eighty percent of those questioned in Thailand.

1.The passage is mainly about______________.

A. a common emotion B. laughter   shyness    D. gelotophobia

2.In which country are people most likely to avoid social situations where they have been laughed at before?

A. Turkmenistan     B. Iraq        Finland       D. Thailand

3.According to the text the following is true EXCEPT that ________.

A. people suffer from gelotophobia because they are shy

B. not all the people questioned hid their feelings in social situations

 perhaps Humor is a magazine

D. people in Finland are the least likely to suffer from gelotophobia

4.A person who suffers from gelotophobia will probably ______.

A. be active in social activities           B. be easily laughed at

 like to laugh at others             D. like to stay alone

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. Recently a terrible earthquake happened in Sichuan, ____the people are still suffering.

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Did The Earth Move For You?

Eleven-year-old Angela suffered from a disease involving her nervous system. She was unable to________and her movement was restricted in other ways as well. The doctors did not hold out much _______of her ever recovering from this illness. They ________she‟d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. They said that ______, if any, were able to come back to normal after catching this disease. But the little girl was brave and confident. There, lying in her hospital bed, she would ______to anyone who‟d listen that she was definitely going to be walking again someday.

She was then sent to a specialized rehabilitation hospital in the San Francisco Bay area. Whatever therapies(治疗方法) could be ________to her case were used. Things didn‟t work as the therapists expected. Still they were charmed by her _________spirit. They taught her about ____________—　 about　 seeing　 herself　 walking.　 If　 it　 would　 do　 nothing　 else,　 it　 would ______give her hope and something _______to do in the long waking hours in her bed. Angela would work as hard as possible in physical therapy, in whirlpools and in exercise sessions. And she worked just as hard lying there ______doing her imaging, visualizing herself moving, moving, moving!

One day, as she was twisting with all her _____to imagine her legs moving again, it seemed as though a _____thing happened: The bed moved! It began to move around the room! She _________out, “Look what I‟m doing! Look! Look! I _________it! I moved!”

Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming, too, and running　 for ______. People　 were　 screaming,　 equipment　 was _______and　 glass　 was breaking. You see, it was the recent San Francisco earthquake. But don‟t tell that to Angela. She‟s _________that she did　 it. And now only a　 few years　 later, she‟s back　 in school.

______her own two legs. No crutches(拐杖), no wheelchair. You see, anyone who can shake the earth between San Francisco and Oakland can conquer a little disease. You never know what‟s around the corner until you take a _________step.

1.A. hear B. speak C. walk D. see

2.A. pride B. hope C. regret D. pity

3.A. predicted B. forgot C. denied D. promised

4.A. some B. few C. many D. all

5.A. apologize B. appeal C. refer D. swear

6.A. applied B. appointed C. compared D. explained

7.A. competitive B. independent C. sensitive D. undefeatable

8.A. concentrating B. summarizing C. picturing D. sorting

9.A. in advance B. for some reason C. on the contrary D. at least

10.A. positive B. attractive C. familiar D. boring

11.A. gratefully B. faithfully C. hopelessly D. royally

12.A. might B. interest C. fame D. need

13.A. normal B. magical C. funny D. simple

14.A. found B. screamed C. turned D. counted

15.A. understood B. refused C. mad D. decided

16.A. cover B. comfort C. freedom D. office

17.A. exploding B. working C. self-repairing D. falling

18.A. persuaded B. ashamed C. convinced D. worried

19.A. By B. With C. On D. For

20.A. cautious B. reasonable C. final D. further

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Last moth, part of Southeast Asia was struck by floods, from ___ effects the people are still suffering.

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On May 12,2008, a terrible earthquake happened in Sichuan, _____ the people are suffering.

A. from their effects                 B. of which effects

C. of its effects                     D. from whose effects

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Most of the new diseases we humans have faced in the past several decades have come from animals. The more we come into contact with wild animals, the more we risk a so-called disease “spillover” from animals to humans.

“As people move and wildlife move in response to a changing environment, humans and wildlife and animals will come in contact more regularly,” said Jeanne Fair from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Fair argues that by shifting　 animal habitats, climate change will also make the opportunities for disease spillover more frequent. “Everything is sort of shifting and will shift into the future as the environment changes through climate change,” Fair said.

Scientists, including climatologists and epidemiologists on Fair’s team at Los Alamos, are beginning to model how changes to the climate will impact the spread of infectious diseases. It’s early days for this kind of research, but previous studies suggest that extreme weather has already played a role in at least one outbreak. Scientists say drought and deforestation have combined to force bats out of rainforests and into orchards（果园）in Malaysia to find food. Those bats, a common disease reservoir, then passed the Nipah virus through pigs to humans for the first time in the late 1990s.

“We’re going by the past data to really predict what’s going to happen in the future,” Fair said, “And so, anytime you increase that wildlife-human interface, that’s sort of an emerging disease hot spot. And so, that’s just increasing as we go forward.”

Jeffrey Shaman, head of the climate and health program at Columbia University’s public health school, argues we don’t yet know whether climate change will cause a net increase in infectious disease rates globally. For example, mosquitoes carry disease that affects millions of people across the world every year. As their habitats expand in some parts of the world, they might contract diseases elsewhere. Shaman says what we know for certain about climate change is that it will make it harder to predict where disease outbreaks will pop up.

1.How does climate change affect the spread of disease according to Fair?

A.By breaking animals’ habits.

B.By increasing animals’ varieties.

C.By promoting animals’ breeding.

D.By changing animals’ living environment.

2.What is the example of bats for in paragraph 3?

A.Explaining the influence of Nipah virus.

B.Proving the harm of bats to human beings.

C.Showing the effects of climate change on disease.

D.Presenting scientists’ early study about the cause of disease.

3.What can we infer from Fair’s words in paragraph 4?

A.Humans should give up studying animals.

B.Past data can solve the problems in the future.

C.Disease hot spots will disappear if animals die out.

D.Frequent contact with animals can cause disease outbreaks.

4.What could be the best title for the text?

A.Climate Change and Disease Spillover

B.Animals’ Interaction with Humans

C.Scientists’ Prediction for Disease Outbreaks

D.Early Studies about Extreme Weather

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