职称英语考试《卫生类》章节练习题精选及答案0524-53

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职称英语考试《卫生类》章节练习题精选及答案0524-53

1、When a disease of epidemic proportions rips into the

populace, scientists immediately get to work, trying to locate

the source of the affliction and find ways to combat it.

Oftentimes, success is achieved, as medical science is able to

isolate the parasite, germ or cell that causes the problem and

finds ways to effectively kill or contain it. In the most serious of

cases, in which the entire population of a region or country may

be at grave risk, it is deemed necessary to protect the entire

population through vaccination, so as to safeguard lives and

ensure that the disease will not spread.

The process of vaccination allows the patient's body to develop

immunity to the virus or disease so that, if it is encountered,

one can ward it off naturally. To accomplish this, a small weak

or dead strain of the disease is actually injected into the patient

in a controlled environment, so that his body's immune system

can learn to fight the invader properly. Information on how to

penetrate the disease's defenses is transmitted to all elements

of the patient's immune system in a process that occurs 2

naturally, in which genetic information is passed from cell to cell.

This makes sure that, should the patient later come into contact

with the real problem, his body is well equipped and trained to

deal with it, having already done so before.

There are dangers inherent in the process, however. On

occasion, even the weakened version of the disease contained

in the vaccine proves too much for the body to handle, resulting

in the immune system succumbing, and, therefore, the patient's

death. Such is the case of the smallpox vaccine, designed to

eradicate the smallpox epidemic that nearly wiped out the

entire Native American population and killed massive numbers

of settlers. Approximately l in 10,000 people who receives the

vaccine contract the smallpox disease from the vaccine itself

and dies from it. Thus, if the entire population of the United

States were to receive the Smallpox Vaccine today, 3,000

Americans would be left dead.

Fortunately, the smallpox virus was considered eradicated in

the early 1970's, ending the mandatory vaccination of all babies

in America. In the event of a re-introduction of the disease,

however, mandatory vaccinations may resume, resulting in

more unexpected deaths from vaccination. The process, which

is truly a mixed blessing, may indeed hide some hidden curses.

The phrase "ward it off naturally" (Paragraph 2) most probably 3

means____.【单选题】

A.dispose of it naturally

B.fight it off with ease

C.see to it reluctantly

D.split it up properly

正确答案:B

答案解析:猜词题。本文第二段讲述了在接种疫苗后,身体自然可以跟这种疾病的致病菌进行对抗。因此,选项B“很轻松地与之对抗”与此相符合,故为正确答案。选项A“自然地将其排除”、选项C“很不情愿地去管理它”和选项D“恰当地分解它”都不符合题意。