Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
【1】 winning multiple awards and being the most searchedpared with AIDS, Tuberculosis can be cured effectively
【3】Which of the following is best defines the word “upshot” (Para 5)?
A.Outcome. B.Uphold.
C.Achievement. D.Project.
【4】Which of the following proverbs is closest in meaning to the message the passage tries to convey?
A.Forgive and forget.
B.Forgotten, but not gone.
C.When the wound is healed, the pain is forgotten.
D.Every dog is brave at his own door.
【答案】
【1】D
上海哪个区编制最好考【2】D
【3】A
【4】B
【解析】
【1】词句猜测题。根据第一段中的“World Tuberculosis (infections disease in which growths appear on the lungs) Day is on Saturday March 24th.”可知，3月24日星期六是世界结核病日，这说明人们对这种病足够重视才专门把一天定为结核病日，由此可知这句话的意思是：近年来，结核病越来越受到人们的重视，故D项正确。
【2】推理判断题。根据第二段中的“Tuberculosis was once terribly fashionable…however, been neglected of late. Researchers in the field never tire of pointing out that TB kills a lot of people. According to figures released earlier this week by the World Health Organization, 1.6 million people died of the disease in 2005, compared with about 3m for AIDS and 1m for malaria. But it receives only a fraction of the research budget devoted to AIDS.”可知，原来很流行，但现在被人忽视，死亡人数比艾滋病少，研究经费也远远少于艾滋病，这说明结核病比艾滋病更容易有效地治愈，由此可知第二段中提到艾滋病是为了说明与艾滋病相比，是可以有效治愈的，故D项正确。
【3】词义猜测题。根据画线词前的“Conversely, in about 20% of cases where a patient has both diseases, anti-HIV drugs make the tuberculosis worse.”可知，相反，在大约20%的患
者同时患有两种疾病的情况下，抗艾滋病毒药物会使结核病恶化，因此此处是说结果是，在人类出结核病的病因125年后，它仍然是一个严重的威胁，由此可知画线词词义为“结果”，故A项正确。
【4】主旨大意题。根据文章内容，特别是第二段中的“Tuberculosis was once terribly fashionable. …has, however, been neglected of late.”及最后一段中的“The other reason TB is back is its relationship to AIDS.”可知，本文主要介绍的是结核病卷土重来的两个原因——被人们忽视以及它和艾滋病间的关系（抗艾滋病药物会使结核病恶化），因此本文主要是想告诉我们结核病只是被人们忽视了，它还是人类健康的一大威胁，故B项正确。
本篇第4题难度较大，抓住文章主题是关键，根据文章内容，特别是第二段中的“Tuberculosis was once terribly fashionable. …has, however, been neglected of late.”及最后一段中的“The other reason TB is back is its relationship to AIDS.”可知，本文主要介绍的是结核病卷土重来的两个原因——被人们忽视以及它和艾滋病间的关系（抗艾滋病药物会使结核病恶化），因此本文主要是想告诉我们结核病只是被人们忽视了，它还是人类健康的一大威胁，故B项（只是被遗忘，并未离去）符合文章主旨。
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences given below. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
The war on smoking, now five decades old and counting, is one of the nation’s greatest public health success stories — but not for everyone
As a whole, the country has made amazing progress. In 1964, four in ten teens in the US smoked; today fewer than two in ten do. 【1】.
Their failure is the greatest disappointment in an effort to save lives that was started on Jan. 11, 1964, by the first Surgeon General s Report on Smoking and Health. Its finding that smoking is a cause of lung cancer and other diseases was major news then. The hazards of smoking were just starting to emerge.
The report led to cigarette warning labels, a ban on TV ads and eventually an anti-smoking movement that shifted the nation’s attitude on smoking. Then, smokers were cool.
Today, many are outcasts, rejected by restaurants, bars, public buildings and even their ow
n workplaces. Millions of lives have been saved.
The formula for success is no longer guesswork: Adopt tough warning labels, air public service ads, fund smoking cessation programs and impose smoke-free laws. 【2】. If you can stop them from smoking, you’ve won the war. Few people start smoking after turning eighteen. 【3】.The 10 states with the lowest adult smoking rates slap an average tax of$2. 42 on every pack -three times the average tax in the states with the highest smoking rates.
New York has the highest cigarette tax in the country, at $4.35 per pack, and just 12 percent of teens smoke, far below the national average of 18 percent. Compare that with Kentucky, where taxes are low(60 cents), smoking restrictions are weak and the teen smoking rate is double New York's, Other low-tax states have similarly dismal records
Enemies of high tobacco taxes cling to the tired argument that they fall disproportionately on the poor.【4】. The effect of the taxes is amplified further when the revenue is used to fund initiatives that help smokers quit or persuade teens not to start.
Anti-smoking forces have plenty to celebrate this week, having helped avoid 8 million premature deaths in the past 50 years. But as long as 3, 000 adolescents and teens take their first puff each day, the war is not won
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