More people die of tuberculosis than of any other disease caused by a
& c% s6 g; @: \+ C' G single agent. This has probably been the case in quite a while. During the __1__$ Y; }: ]/ Y( C/ O6 y8 ]' }
early stages of the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh __2__- p7 ]- g$ F. j: z. t5 ^3 A
deaths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the disease. From __3__
; x# I9 v# U4 {* l0 a now on, though, western eyes, missing the global picture, saw the trouble __4__1 d" `+ l# B& M& u( }6 Q
going into decline. With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and
) E# ` e* y. P. z; B) u* w+ L infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily through the 19th and __5__
% X9 l; [9 t+ L- i 20th centuries. In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics strengthened the
/ R: W# j9 ?6 _" R% }! M trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed to be imported to __6__( Z' I- Y& o2 T4 t- D
poor countries. Medical researchers declared victory and withdrew.
* Y: ^& c; u( K/ {9 J( @7 K. ~ They are wrong. In the mid1980s the frequency of infections and deaths __7__
8 X% F7 U2 P. u$ d7 r8 r( I2 Z* J started to pick up again around the world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came __8__
+ c, J% J3 c* A7 I% G! \ back; in many places where it had never been away, it grew better. The World __9__+ g6 [2 L- `: n
Health Organization estimates that 1.7 billion people (a third of the earth’s
0 r$ F! N7 _' R/ v population)suffer from tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate was falling,1 m& m. I1 v+ h. T- J* p
population growth kept the number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 __10__6 Z* w( q0 u1 n( c7 g/ ]+ g
million a year. Around 3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor
) B* l5 f& Y1 C countries.# P; _- S3 _( m/ Y1 I' f9 |& p
参考答案:
$ K5 a, O& j5 Y) F7 s# T tuberculosis n.肺结核$ s( R* v6 [2 o- r" |
antibiotics n.抗生素, 抗生学
6 N: g5 q, T. n. Y 1 将in改为for
+ \; X4 k3 W( \ for quite a while 作 “相当长时间”讲.
2 W6 Y* U' [; r 2 将seventh改为seven
/ R$ {! s' ? r1 ^! O+ G 3 将were改为was
9 Y! [5 G6 T4 ]* P" z/ B% N- i 这个谓语动词的主语是单数短语 one in every seven deaths, 因此要使用单数.
' s5 O$ [! y) X- A( H 4将now 改为then9 h! M: N" A/ P5 t: m. G8 o1 [: n
5将Europe前的the 去掉: z- U' f6 ^8 k4 r# \
6 将imported改为exported
% o% @8 o$ T+ L( B: M# M3 Y 根据上下文,应该是向穷国出口抗生素,而不是从这些国家进口抗生素.0 U9 Z" o' j0 D/ D% b7 o
7 将are 改为were
4 `' b) ?) P' @7 R" w0 d 8 在vanished 前加had
$ j t8 O2 [! Q 这里要表达的是 “结核病原来消失的地方,又爆发了结核病”,所以要使用过去完成时.3 U z0 g$ l' V: |
9 将better改为worse
+ p$ n4 |; o, j, C G1 r( K 在结合病没有消失的地方,这种病更加严重了,因此要用worse.2 x5 J' s: K! j9 a( x
10 将constantly改为constant( [' x8 b( C4 O
在 “keep sb/ sth adj”结构中的形容词作补语. |
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