教甄◆英文科題庫下載題庫

The H1N1 flu seems a far cry from the mass killer it was feared to be when it first emerged in Mexico in April. _11__ it 

has since infected more than 12,000 people in 43 countries, including more than 6,500 in the U.S., it has so far killed just 86 

victims. Health officials are still on high __12__.The disease continues to spread, with a batch of new cases in Japan in 

mid-May that could be enough to prompt the World Health Organization (WHO) to __13__ an official pandemic. 

Meanwhile, in New York City, which saw one of the earliest and fastest escalating __14__ of the disease in the U.S., the 

H1N1-related death of an assistant principal of a public school on May 17 prompted more school closures and raised concerns 

from some parents. __15__ the city's jailhouses have become a political battlefield over H1N1. After at least four inmates 

__16__ the disease at Rikers Island, potentially putting guards at risk of infection, the head of the correctional officer's union 

said he would file a lawsuit to force the city to close down part of the prison. 

New Yorkers can rest easy — Mayor Michael Bloomberghas said that “turning prisoners __17__ in the streets of the city 

is not something we plan to do.” But a month after the H1N1 virus first grabbed the world's attention,we're still pondering the 

essential question: how __18__ of swine flu should we be? The answer is that we may not know for weeksor months — the 

world has been hit with pandemics before, but what is happening now is unprecedented. “For the first time in humanity, we are 

seeing, or we may be seeing, pandemic influenza_19_ in front of our eyes,” said Margaret Chan, the director-general of the 

WHO. 

That may help explain why the global response feelsa bit disjointed. Different countries have different ways of __20__ an 

evolving epidemic: while the Hong Kong government has been quarantining for 10 days everyone who has been __21__ a 

confirmed flu patient, local governments in the U.S. are still debating whether schools with infections should close. __22__, 

drug companies say they could produce nearly 5 billion doses of H1N1 vaccine in a year, if pressed. But there's still no decision 

yet on whether to go forward, or exactly how the vaccine might be distributed.