At the beginning SARS was ________ a very serious problem.

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At the beginning SARS was ________ a very serious problem.

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A. regarding as

B. considered for

C. taking for

D. treated as

The world hash’t seen a pandemic（流行疾病）in 4 1 years，when the”Hong Kong”flu crossed the globe and killed about one million people worldwide．If H1N1 flu（甲型流感）reaches pandemic levels，what would happen next?

       The outbreak of SARS in 2003 rang alarm bells as potential pandemics．Although it jumped the”animal-to·human”barrier，neither disease changed enough to enable human-to．Human infection．Strictly speaking，SARS did not become pandemics because it was too good at killing their hosts．For a pandemic，it needs to be able to maintain human-to．human contact without killing its host off．

       ”H1N1 flu is already a man-to-man disease，which makes it much more difficult to manage．

       And H1N1 flu appears much more infectious than SARS．

       But the WHO warns，it cannot say whether or not it will indeed cause a pandemic．According to experts，here’s what the world might see if there is another pandemic，based on past experience．

       The disease would skip from city to city over an 18-to-24 month period，infecting more than a third of the population．World health Organization officials believe as many as 1．5 billion people around the globe would seek medical care and nearly 30 million would seek hospitalization．Based on the last pandemic and current world population，as many as 7 million people could die．Hospitals will become overcrowded；schools will close；businesses will close；airports will be empty．Business will become very bad，as people avoid as much social contact as possible．

       Health facilities will become overrun with patients and there would be less-than-adequate staffing，as medical health professionals fall ill themselves and that would result in higher deaths．

       The very young and very old will likely be the most susceptible（易受感染的）to the illness．Experts warn，much is still unknown about the current H1N1 flu virus and its severity and it is too early to say whether it will lead to a pandemic．Right now，the focus is on finding answers and controlling the spread．

1.How many kinds of disease is mentioned in the passage?

       A．Two      B．Three           C．Four        D．Five

2.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

       A．SARS didn’t change enough to enable sustained（持续的）human-to—human infection．

       B．SARS was very good at killing its carriers．

       C．A man with H1N1 flu can not infect another man easily．

       D．Comparing SARS and H 1N 1 flu，SARS is not as infectious．

3.What can we know about the “Hong Kong” flu from the passage?

       A．It spread all around the globe and killed lots of people．

       B．It killed about millions of people．

       C．It killed about one million people in Hong Kong．

       D．Not the old but the young were susceptible to it and got killed．

4.What can be inferred from the passage?

       A．The H1N1 flu will skip from city to city over an 18一to一24 month period．

       B．Doctors and nurses will fall ill themselves，which will result in many more deaths．

       C．Every country is taking measures to stop the H1N1 flu from leading to a pandemic．

       D．The WHO and experts have known much about the current H1N1 flu virus．

1. We all were t_____________ beyond words by the moving story.

2. Smiling is the most universal f______________ expression.

3. SARS broke out and spread t________________ (across) China in 2003, attacking many people.

4. As is known, Fang Bing Bing is one of the most famous Chinese a_________________. 

5.The tanker sank and the oil p_______________ the sea.

6. The little Tramp that Charlie Chaplin played was a social f___________ who is poor ,homeless but positive.

7.Since Japan was d______________, China recovered all the places that had been occupied.

8.The date of the meeting was a________________ from Friday to Monday.

9.The amusement park offers its visitors a v______________ of rides, such as a Ferris wheel, merry- go-round or a roller coaster.

I suppose that having been brought up in the countryside and close  to animals，it wasn’t remarkable(不平常的)when I decided  to become a vet(兽医)．Luckily I was also good at all the necessary science subjects. So after the college entrance examination I found myself at a veterinary college，training to look after animals in all kinds of situations. I hoped that I would be able to work in the research field so that I could find cures for animal diseases.
Much to my surprise，I found public health care was a very important aspect of my course. This is an area of animal medicine where a vet’s work has many things in common with the work of a doctor of human diseases. I particularly liked it because I recognized that the study of animal diseases can help human medicine. As we know，many infectious diseases come from animals—including SARS and bird flu.
Some of the infections have only been understood after carefully analytical work in labs by animal doctors. They helped identify the animal source for diseases such as SARS. They were also the first to identify various kinds of viruses. Sometimes vets are also able to suggest a cure for human illnesses. When I found this out I was determined to make public health medicine my chosen career.
After graduation，I applied for a job in public health. Soon I found myself concerned with the problem of bird flu. This is  an illness that attacks birds，but humans can catch the disease  if they are in close contact with infected birds. Though the job  is dangerous，it makes me proud that vets and other animal  disease researchers are in the front line helping to fight these  unknown human diseases

【小题1】The writer wanted to become a vet mainly because______.