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In the winter of 1910, Dr. Wu Lien-Teh stepped off a train in the northern Chinese city of Harbin. He was there to solve a medical mystery, at great personal risk. Over the past few months, an unknown disease had swept along the railways of northeast China, killing 99.9% of its victims. The Qing Imperial court had sent the Cambridge-educated Dr. Wu north to stop the epidemic.

When Dr Wu arrived in Harbin on Christmas Eve, 1910, he carried little in the way of medical instruments and had only one assistant. One of Wu' s first acts upon arrival was to set up special quarantine(隔離) units and to order lockdowns to stop infected persons from traveling and spreading the disease. He had teams check households for possible cases, and even managed to convince authorities to completely close the railways in the early weeks of 1911. Of particular concern was the upcoming Chinese New Year holiday, which had become a great annual migration of people traveling across the country to see their families.

Thanks to Dr. Wu's efforts, the number of plague victims began to die down, and by March 1, 1911, the epidemic was fully contained. The pneumonic (肺炎的) plague outbreak of 1910-1911 lasted nearly four months, affected five provinces and six major cities, and accounted for over 60,000 deaths. It is clear that without the brave and decisive actions taken by Dr. Wu, it could have been much worse. Had the epidemic gone unchecked, allowing holiday rail passengers to spread the disease to the rest of China could have meant a catastrophic loss of life and possibly a global health crisis.

In April 1911, Dr. Wu chaired an International Plague Conference in Shenyang, attended by scientists from 11 counties including the United States, Great Britain, Russia, Japan and France. They praised Dr. Wu for his handling of the 1910-1911 outbreak. For a time, Dr. Wu was the world's most famous plague fighter, a title be defended in a malaria epidemic in China in 1919, and a return of plague in 1921.

was Dr Wu's mission in 1910?

take personal risk.                                    end an epidemic.

provide medical education.                       investigate the number of victims.

h of Dr Wu's acts stopped the disease from spreading nationwide?

ing up special quarantine units around the country.

ting infected persons with his medical instruments.

king households himself for possible cases.

incing authorities to close the railways.

can we infer from the last two paragraphs?

disease worsened after Mach 1, 1911.

B.60,000 would have died without Dr Wu's efforts.

C.A global health crisis followed the 1910-1911 outbreak.

plague broke out again about 10 years later.

can be the best title of the text?

A.A Plague Fighter

B.A Global Health Crisis

Beginning of the Chinese Public Health System

D.A Plague Outbreak

【回答】

1.B; 2.D; 3.D; 4.A 解析：1.細節理解題。根據第一段的最後一句話The Qing Imperial court had sent the Cambridge-educated Dr. Wu north to stop the epidemic.(清朝廷派劍橋大學畢業的伍博士北上,以阻止疫情的蔓延。)可知1910年伍博士的使命是去結束這場流行病。故選B項。 2.細節理解題。根據第二段中的He had teams check households for possible cases, and even managed to convince authorities to completely close the railways in the early weeks of 1911. Of particular concern was the upcoming Chinese New Year holiday, which had become a great annual migration of people traveling across the country to see their families.(他讓一些小組檢查家庭是否有可能發生這種情況,甚至說服當局在1911年的前幾周徹底關閉鐵路。特別值得關注的是即將到來的春節假期,這已經成為全國各地旅遊探親者每年的一次大遷徙。)可知伍博士的說服當局關閉鐵路的行為阻止了這種疾病在全國的傳播。故選D項。 3.推理判斷題。根據最後一段中的For a time, Dr. Wu was the world’s most famous plague fighter, a title be defended in a malaria epidemic in China in 1919, and a return of plague in 1921. (有一段時間,伍博士是世界上最著名的抗疫鬥士,1919年在*的一場瘧疾疫情中,伍博士的“抗疫鬥士”頭銜被捍衛,1921年疫情又捲土重來。)可知在1911年疫情結束大約10年後,瘟疫再次爆發。故選D項。 4.主旨大意題。根據第三段中的Thanks to Dr. Wu’s efforts, the number of plague victims began to die down, and by March 1, 1911, the epidemic was fully contained. (在伍博士的努力下,瘟疫的受害者人數開始下降,到1911年3月1日,瘟疫完全得到控制。)及最後一段中的For a time, Dr. Wu was the world’s most famous plague fighter, (有一段時間,伍博士是世界上最著名的抗疫鬥士)及總覽全文可知文章主要描述了“抗疫鬥士”伍連德博士的偉大抗疫事蹟。因此A項(抗疫戰士)為最佳標題。故選A項。

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