【填空题】
Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example:
More people of tuberculosis (结核病)than of any
other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably been
the case in quite a white. During the early stages of the ______
industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh deaths in ______
Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the disease. From ______
now on, though, western eyes, missing the global picture, ______
saw the trouble going into decline. With occasional breaks for
war, the rates of death and infection in the Europe and ______
America dropped steadily through the 19th and 20th centuries.
In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics(抗菌素)
strengthened the trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics
were allowed to be imported to poor countries. Medical ______
researchers declared victory and withdrew.
They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of ______
infections and deaths started to pick up again around the
world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in many ______
places where it had never been away, it grew better. The ______
World Heath Organization estimates that 1. 7 billion people
(a third of the earth’s population) suffer from tuberculosis. Even
the infection rate was falling, population growth kept the
number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 million a______
year. Around 3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor countries.