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Part Ⅲ  Reading Comprehension  (45 minutes, 25 points, 1 for each )

Directions: There are five passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.

 

Passage One

　　For the five passengers aboard an American Airline flight from Tokyo earlier this month, it was a dilemma worthy of reality television: Go with Santa Clara County health authorities and risk being held in quarantine(隔离) for hours for no good reason. Or go home, make the next connection or get to that business meeting, and risk spreading a potentially deadly new disease to family, fellow passengers and business associates. Emergency vehicles had the aircraft surrounded, and across the nation, Americans watching on live TV got a new look at an old weapon in the fight to protect the public’s health: the quarantine.

　　In an age of mysterious diseases like SARS, and of bioterrorism threats like smallpox, the quarantine is staging a comeback. By April 4, President Bush signed an unusual executive order that would add SARS to a list of diseases for which federal health officials may quarantine U.S. citizens against their will. It was the first such action since the time, when the dreaded Eborla virus was added to a series of epidemics.

　　Quarantine was first used in Venice during the 14th century. In America, its history is long and periodic. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, outbreaks of tuberculosis(肺结核)，smallpox, scarelet fever, cholera and other plagues prompted periodic quarantines throughout the nation. When these quarantines were challenged, courts invariably defended the state’s authority to act: Quarantine, the Supreme Court ruled in 1909, does not invade constitutional rights, since individuals have no right to harm others.

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