2008年中考阅读理解精讲精练（十六）

     BANGKOK: Asia's bird flu epidemic, which has killed millions of chickens and at least 22 people, is under control although the terrible virus might stay for months, the head of the world animal health body said on Friday.
"Things now are improving in all infected countries," said Bernard Vallat, head of the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). "The epidemic is very much under control."
Outbreaks of bird flu in Europe and the United States took six months to bring under control, so Vallat warned Asian countries that the highly dangerous H5N1 birdflu kind probably would be around for months.
"To be sure that the virus is all gone could take at least one year," he said. "It is very difficult to be sure that the pathogen is certainly out of the country."
Thailand is the world's fourth largest poultry producer and one of the worst hit countries. On Tuesday it hoped to be "bird flu free" by next week, but on Friday it reported it had fresh outbreaks earlier this month.
"Once we knew, we ordered a kill to stop the virus from going round. That place is now under 21-day watch," said senior Agriculture Ministry official Yukol Limlamthong.
Bird flu went across much of Asia over the last few months, killing at least 15 people in Viet Nam and seven in Thailand, and making more than 100 million birds be killed to stop the epidemic.
Though the disease seems to be disappearing, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization has asked the countries in which bird flu was found not to open up poultry farms too quickly to prevent the disease from breaking out again.
However, Viet Nam said on Tuesday it was about to keep more poultry groups.
直通考场                                                                      
Read the passage and complete the sentences:                                         
1. Bird flu came to an _____ in Asia after it is very much under _____ in all infected countries.
2. Vallat warned Asian countries that the terrible virus-H5N1 birdflu kind could _____for months and it would take them at least one year to _____ bird flu under control.
3. _____ is the world's fourth largest poultry producer and one of the countries that has been worst _____ by bird flu.
4. Yukol Limlamthong said Thailand ordered a kill to the poultry as _____ as it knew the infected place so that the virus could be _____ from moving round. 
5. The passage _____ us that the best and most important _____ for bird flu is quarantine（隔离）and control.
答案：   1. _____    2. ______     3. ______     4. ______     5. ______                                   

单词表                                                                   

Bangkok  [bæŋ′k  k] n. 曼谷
epidemic [epi′demik] n. 传染病
control  [kn′ trul] n. 控制
virus  [′vairs] n. 病毒
body  [′b  di] n. 社团；团体
infect [in′fekt] vt. 感染；传染
outbreak [′autbreik] n. 爆发；发作
pathogen  [′pæθdзin] n. 病原体
senior [′si:nj] adj. 高级的；地位高的
official [′fil] n. 官员
agriculture [′ægrik^lt] n. 农业
ministry [′ministri] n. (中央政府)部
Viet Nam [vjet′næm] n. 越南

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