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北大05年同等学力申硕学位外语水平统考模拟试题(5)
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| 文章出处： 发布时间：2006-03-29 |
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (45 minutes, 25 points, 1 for each )
Directions: There are five passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
Passage One
For the five passengers aboard an American Airline flight from Tokyo earlier this month, it was a dilemma worthy of reality television: Go with Santa Clara County health authorities and risk being held in quarantine(隔离) for hours for no good reason. Or go home, make the next connection or get to that business meeting, and risk spreading a potentially deadly new disease to family, fellow passengers and business associates. Emergency vehicles had the aircraft surrounded, and across the nation, Americans watching on live TV got a new look at an old weapon in the fight to protect the public’s health: the quarantine.
In an age of mysterious diseases like SARS, and of bioterrorism threats like smallpox, the quarantine is staging a comeback. By April 4, President Bush signed an unusual executive order that would add SARS to a list of diseases for which federal health officials may quarantine U.S. citizens against their will. It was the first such action since the time, when the dreaded Eborla virus was added to a series of epidemics.
Quarantine was first used in Venice during the 14th century. In America, its history is long and periodic. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, outbreaks of tuberculosis(肺结核)，smallpox, scarelet fever, cholera and other plagues prompted periodic quarantines throughout the nation. When these quarantines were challenged, courts invariably defended the state’s authority to act: Quarantine, the Supreme Court ruled in 1909, does not invade constitutional rights, since individuals have no right to harm others.
But though quarantines were frequently effective in protecting the public from the spread of illness, they can be a blunt (钝的) instrument, and have often been abused or misapplied. In 1900, the death of a Chinese laborer suspected of having bubonic plague(腺鼠疫) in San Francisco prompted authorities to quarantine that city’s entire Chinatown district. Trapped behind crude barriers and barbed wire, and experiencing food shortages, San Francisco’s Asian population successfully challenged the measure as an act aroused by racial prejudice rather than concern for public health.
Today, federal officials have broad rights, through the Centers for Disease Control, to examine and quarantine foreign citizens coming into the United States if they may be carriers of contagious diseases. And state and local officials across the country have broad powers to detain Americans if they are clearly ill with a contagious disease and they resist treatment.
31. What does the first paragraph introduce to us?
A. A scene from a soap opera.
B. A piece of news about a shocking scene.
C. A scene from a medical advertisement.
D. A piece of news item telecast live.
32. The five passengers were surrounded by emergency vehicles when landing because they were ________ .
A. seriously ill
B. involved in some illegal dealings
C. seriously injured in an accident
D. suspected to have some contagious disease
33. Why is the old weapon back again?
A. Because we are facing with the severe attack of some mysterious disease like SARS.
B. Because we are facing with global bioterrorism attack.
C. Because the environmental crisis has made its coming back necessary.
D. Because we are in an age when we turn pale at the mere mention of something terrible.
34. From the passage we can see that _________ .
A. quarantine has a very, very long history in America
B. quarantine has been used several times in America to protect people from the soread of epidemics
C. when quarantine is carried out, human rights are infringed upon
D. American citizens have the right to protect their rights at any time and under any cirumstances
35. From this passage, we can infer that_________ .
A. faced with the threat of deadly unknown diseases quarantine is an outdated weapon
B. quarantine is not very effective as compared with some other stronger measures
C. just like other laws, quarantine can be abused for evil purposes
D. quarantine is a weapon to hatm others so as to benefit oneself
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