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On Jan. 13th, 2009, the Peanut Corporation of America issued a recall (召回) for products it had made over the past six months, after five people had died and more than 400 had fallen ill with salmonella(沙门氏菌)poisoning as a result of contamination. Two weeks later, the recall was extended to more than 400 consumer products made since Jan. 1, 2007, including Jenny Craig nutritional bars and Keebler Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers, while the toll from the contamination had reached eight dead and more than 500 sickened in 43 states, half of them children.
   The company's factory in Blakely, Ga., which was the source of the contamination, supplied some of the largest food makers in the nation. The outbreak showed the complexities of the industrial food chain, and left consumers to figure out if some food in their cabinets had a danger. The recall of peanut products is the latest in a series of increasingly severe food contamination scares involving tomatoes, spinach, cantaloupes and other foods.
   The Georgia plant, which is closed, packed peanut butter in bulk ranging from 5 to 1,700 pounds, much of which was shipped to institutions. Many school districts have pulled peanut butter from menus, with some substituting more commonly recognized supermarket brands. New York City school officials said they had not bought any peanut butter or products with ingredients that originated at the Georgia plant.
   An F.D.A. inspection team that visited the plant on Jan. 9 discovered that on 12 occasions in 2007 and 2008 tests conducted by the company found salmonella contamination in its products but that it shipped the contaminated products to customers after a retest found no contamination and did nothing to clean the plant.


57. We can learn from the passage that__________.

A. 13 persons have died because of the poisoning

B. people may now worry about the food at their homes.

C. people can return the food to the supermarkets

D. half of the school children have fallen ill

58. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Much of the peanut butter produced in the plant was supplied to schools.

B. It is the first time that the virus has been found in the products in this company.

C. Some consumer products made since nearly two years ago were also recalled.

D. There have been some other food concerns besides peanut products recently.

59. What can be inferred from the fact that the recall was extended?

A. The outbreak showed the complication of the food chain.

B. The poisoning has been found in the products made much earlier.

C. The poisoning has been found in more products.

D. More persons would die or get ill after having the products.

60. The passage is mainly about___________.

A. the importance of food inspection in the US

B. the problems in the US food industry

C. food poisoning in some schools

D. a recall for peanut products of a company

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H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu (流感), has killed at least 15 people across Asia and was proved in China on January 27. No human cases have been found in the main??land, but 13 of the country’s 31 provinces have reported the disease in poultry.

The Chinese government has taken measures to prevent and control the disease. Poultry within 3 km of infected (受感染的) farms is to be killed and those within 5 km vaccinated (接种疫苗). At the same time, there will be continuous monitoring and daily reports on the disease across the country, and in??creased production of bird flu vaccines.

Among the 11 Asian countries and regions having bird flu in animals, only Vietnam and Thailand have reported human cases. The people infected were reported to have caught the disease from poultry.

While the World Health Organization ( WHO) says there is “no proof (证据) of human-to-human infection (传染)” of bird flu, the big fear is that the disease could combine with a human flu virus (病毒) to produce a deadly new disease that will kill millions of people across the world. Many Asian farmers live closely with their animals and sell live chickens in the market. This greatly increases the chance of humans being infected with bird flu.

A spokesman of the WHO said that Asian countries having bird flu should introduce a more healthy way of raising and selling chickens. The people there have to completely change their way of life and manners towards animals. Here are some safety measures for people to stay healthy;

*   Keep fit through usual exercise;

*   Avoid infected poultry and infected people;

*   Avoid eating uncooked or under-done poultry and eggs;

*   Make sure there is always fresh air in your home;

*   Cover your mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing;

*   Wash your hands as often as possible.

What does the underlined word “poultry” mean?

A. Wild birds.

B. Wild animals.

C. Home-raised birds.

D. Home-raised animals.

From the passage, we learn that __________.

A. infected poultry within 3 km was killed in China

B. the first bird flu case was proved in China on Jan. 27

C. human infected cases were found in 11 Asian countries

D. over two thirds of China have been affected by the bird flu

What do people fear most?

A. Poultry will infect many people.

B. There will be human-to-human infection.

C. The disease can spread quickly among people.

D. A new disease combining bird flu and a human flu will break out.

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China launched its fifth Beidou orbiter into space on Sunday morning, moving it one step closer to its goal of building a navigation(导航) and positioning satellite network.

       The Beidou, or Compass, system is being built to rival the US-developed GPS, the European Union's Galileo and Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System. It can allow travelers, drivers and military officials to know their locations.

       The fifth orbiter was launched on top of a Long March 3A carrier rocket at 5:30 am on Sunday from Xichang of Southwest China's Sichuan province.

       It is the third Compass satellite launched this year, following launches on Jan 17 and June 2.

       The short interval of less than two months since the last launch demonstrated that "the country is stepping into a busy period of launching the Compass satellites", an unnamed official in charge of the project said last month.

       The first two orbiters were launched in 2007 and 2009 respectively.

       Sun Jiadong, the Beidou program's chief designer, said on June 21 in a TV interview that China would launch 13 to 15 Beidou navigation satellites into orbit by 2012 to form a network that provides regional service covering the neighboring areas.

       And in about 10 years, the network would be expanded to include more than 30 satellites covering the globe, he said.

      The system is a crucial part of the country's space infrastructure for providing navigation and positioning services in transportation, meteorology, petroleum prospecting, forest fire monitoring, disaster forecasting, telecommunications and public security.

       In addition, a global positioning system is crucial to any country's national security and defense, said Ran Chengqi, an official in charge of the program, referring to the fact that the US initially built its GPS system for military purposes.

       It is unimaginable for China to go without such a system, he said.

       Earlier reports cited(引用) Song Xiaojun, a Beijing-based military expert, as saying that 90 percent of the world's current weapons systems need a global positioning system.

1.This news report was probably released            .

       A.in January, 2010  B.in June, 2010       C.in July, 2010      D.in August, 2010

2.The Compass System is expected to finally cover      in the future.

       A.China                                                 B.China and its neigh boring areas

       C.Asia, Europe and Oceania                     D.the earth

3.At the very beginning, the GPS system was built to help       .

       A.military officers to judge their locations B.travelers to know their locations

       C.drivers to reach their destinations easily D.hunters to find wild animals smoothly

 

H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu (流感), has killed at least 15 people across Asia and was proved in China on January 27. No human cases have been found in the main­land, but 13 of the country’s 31 provinces have reported the disease in poultry.

The Chinese government has taken measures to prevent and control the disease. Poultry within 3 km of infected (受感染的) farms is to be killed and those within 5 km vaccinated (接种疫苗). At the same time, there will be continuous monitoring and daily reports on the disease across the country, and in­creased production of bird flu vaccines.

Among the 11 Asian countries and regions having bird flu in animals, only Vietnam and Thailand have reported human cases. The people infected were reported to have caught the disease from poultry.

While the World Health Organization ( WHO) says there is “no proof (证据) of human-to-human infection (传染)” of bird flu, the big fear is that the disease could combine with a human flu virus (病毒) to produce a deadly new disease that will kill millions of people across the world. Many Asian farmers live closely with their animals and sell live chickens in the market. This greatly increases the chance of humans being infected with bird flu.

A spokesman of the WHO said that Asian countries having bird flu should introduce a more healthy way of raising and selling chickens. The people there have to completely change their way of life and manners towards animals. Here are some safety measures for people to stay healthy;

*   Keep fit through usual exercise;

*   Avoid infected poultry and infected people;

*   Avoid eating uncooked or under-done poultry and eggs;

*   Make sure there is always fresh air in your home;

*   Cover your mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing;

*   Wash your hands as often as possible.

1.What does the underlined word “poultry” mean?

A. Wild birds.

B. Wild animals.

C. Home-raised birds.

D. Home-raised animals.

2.From the passage, we learn that __________.

A. infected poultry within 3 km was killed in China

B. the first bird flu case was proved in China on Jan. 27

C. human infected cases were found in 11 Asian countries

D. over two thirds of China have been affected by the bird flu

3. What do people fear most?

A. Poultry will infect many people.

B. There will be human-to-human infection.

C. The disease can spread quickly among people.

D. A new disease combining bird flu and a human flu will break out.

4.

 

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