2013年英语六级改错试题及答案之八
More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of any other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably been the case in quite a while. During the early stages of S1. ________ the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh S2. ________ deaths in Europe's crowded cities were caused by the S3. ________ disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the S4. ________ 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 S5. ________ 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 S6. ________ declared victory and withdrew.
They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of S7. ________ infections and deaths started to pick up again around the world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in S8. ________ many places where it had never been away, it grew better. S9. ________
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7 billion people (a third of the earth's population) suffer from tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate was falling, population growth kept the number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around S10. ________ 3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor countries.
参考答案:
S1. in→for S5. the→/
S2. seventh→seven S6. imported→exported
S3. were→was S7. are→were
S4. now→then S8. (tuberculosis)∧(vanished)→had
S9. better→worse S10. constantly→constant
(编辑:鸿雁)