高中英语真题-Unit3Protectingourselves课外阅读练习

高中英语真题:Unit3Protectingourselves课外
阅读练习
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Recently the World Health Organization announced that the di sease of smallpox（天花）
had almost been wiped out in most parts of the world, thanks t o widespread vaccination（种牛
痘）．Most people are vaccinated at least once in their lives and if they wish to travel from one country to another they mu st be able to prove that they have had a recent vaccination．I n this way the disease has been preven
ted from spreading and today one seldom hears of it at all．This is mainly because of the great discovery made by a villag e doctor, Edward Jenner, in about 1798 when he published hi s report of his new experiment called vaccination
（from the word “vacca” meaning a cow）．Jenner discovere d that people who worked with cattle often suffered from a har mless d
isease which they caught from the cattle, but these people ne ver seemed to get smallpox．So he experimented by putting t
he disease into a small opening on the arms of healthy people , and though their arms became painful for a day or two, they soon recovered and none of these people ever got smallpox ．
So the news of the wonderful discovery spread to other countr ies and people rushed to th
eir doctors to be vaccinated．In many countries the simple w ay to deal with the ar
m was done on thousands of people, and the terrible smallpo x began to disappear．
1．Which of the following is an ineffectual way of preventing t he spread of smallpox？
A．People going abroad should promise not to
spread the disease．
B．Most people were vaccinated against the dis
ease at least once．
C．People travelling from one country to another must prove they are vaccinated．
D．People must be vaccinated shortly before going to foreign countries．
2．The docto
r's new discovery was called “vaccination”for the reason that _ ___．
A．he discovered smallpox near a farm
B．he was working with cattle in the countryside
C．he experimented with a disease from the cattle D．people got the disease of smallpox from the cattle 3．The news of the discovery ____．
A．spread far and near in the western countries
B．made people rush to Dr Jenner for vaccination C．helped to get rid of the terrible disease of smallpox D．caught people's attention from all corners of the world
答案：A C D
Unit3Protectingourselves课外阅读练习
阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Recently the World Health Organization announced that the disease of smallpo x（天花）
had almost been wiped out in most parts of the world, thanks to widespread vac cination（种牛
痘）．Most people are vaccinated at least once in their lives and if they wish to travel from one country to another they must be able to prove that they have ha d a recent vaccination．In this way the disease has been preven
ted from spreading and today one seldom hears of it at all．
This is mainly because of the great discovery made by a village doctor, Edward Jenner, in about 1798 when he published his report of his new experiment calle d vaccination
（from the word “vacca” meaning a cow）．Jenner discovered that people who worked with cattle often suffered from a harmless d
isease which they caught from the cattle, but these people never seemed to get smallpox．So he experimented by putting the disease into a small opening on the arms of healthy people, and though their arms became painful for a day or t wo, they soon recovered and none of these people ever got smallpox．
So the news of the wonderful discovery spread to other countries and people ru shed to th
eir doctors to be vaccinated．In many countries the simple way to deal with the ar
m was done on thousands of people, and the terrible smallpox began to disapp ear．
1．Which of the following is an ineffectual way of preventing the spread of smal lpox？
A．People going abroad should promise not to spread the disease．
B．Most people were vaccinated against the disease at least once．C．People travelling from one country to another must
prove they are vaccinated．
D．People must be vaccinated shortly before going to foreign countries．2．The docto
r's new discovery was called “vaccination”for the reason that ____．A．he discovered smallpox near a farm
B．he was working with cattle in the countryside
C．he experimented with a disease from the cattle
D．people got the disease of smallpox from the cattle
3．The news of the discovery ____．
A．spread far and near in the western countries
B．made people rush to Dr Jenner for vaccination
C．helped to get rid of the terrible disease of smallpox
D．caught people's attention from all corners of the world
答案：A C D。