Read the following text?Choose the best words for each
numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1?10
points
The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was
declared a global epidemic on June 11，2009?It is the first
worldwide epidemic 1 by the World Health Organization in 41
years?
The heightened alert 2 an emergency meeting with flu expects in
Geneva that assembled after a sharp rise in cases in Australia and
rising 3 in Britain，Japan，Chile and elsewhere?
But the epidemic is“4”in severity according to Margaret Chan，the
organization?s director general， 5 the overwhelming majority of
patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery，often
in the 6 of any medical treatment?
The outbreak came to global 7 in late April 2009，when Mexican
authorities noted an unusually large number of hospitalizations and
deaths 8 healthy adults?As much of Mexico City shut down at the
height of a panic，cases began to 9 in New York City，the
southwestern United States and around the world?
In the United States，new cases seemed to fade 10 warmer weather
arrived?But in late September 2009，officials reported there was 11
flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the 12
tested are the new swine flu，also known asAH1N1，not seasonal
flu?In the U?S?it has 13 more than one million people，and caused
more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations?
Federal health officials 14 Tamiflu for children from the
national stockpile and began 15 orders from the states for the new
swine flu vaccine?The new vaccine，which is different from the
annual flu vaccine，is 16 ahead of expectations?More than three
million doses were to be made available in early October
2009，though most of those 17 doses were of the FluMist nasal spray
type,which is not 18 for pregnant women,people over 50 or those
with breathing difficulties,heart disease or several other 19?But
it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high?risk
groups：health care workers，people 20 infants and healthy young
people?
Read the following four texts?Answer the questions below each
text by choosing A, B, C or D?Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET
1?40 points
Text 1
The longest bull run in a century of art?market history ended on
a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst，“Beautiful
Inside My Head Forever”, at Sotheby?s in London on September 15th
2008?All but two pieces sold, fetching more than 70m, a record for
a sale by a single artist?It was a last victory?As the auctioneer
called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall
Street，Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy?
The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while
after rising bewilderingly since 2003?At its peak in 2007 it was
worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts
Economics, a research firm—double the figure five years
earlier?Since then it may have come down to$50 billion?But the
market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings
together great wealth, enormous egos, greed，passion and controversy
in a way matched by few other industries?
In the weeks and months that followed Mr?Hirst?s sale, spending
of any sort became deeply unfashionable?In the art world that meant
collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms?Sales of
contemporary art fell by two?thirds, and in the most overheated
sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November
2008?Within weeks the world?s two biggest auction houses, Sotheby?s
and Christie?s, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to
clients who had placed works for sale with them?
The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the
Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989?This time
experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on
average, though some have been far more fluctuant?But Edward
Dolman, Christie?s chief executive, says: “I?m pretty confident
we?re at the bottom?”
What makes this slump different from the last，he says，is that
there are still buyers in the market?Almost everyone who was
interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem
at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to
sell?The three Ds—death, debt and divorce—still deliver works of
art to the market?But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping
away, waiting for confidence to return?
21?In the first paragraph，Damien Hirst?s sale was referred to
as“a last victory”because?
［A］the art market had witnessed a succession of victories
［B］the auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest
bids
［C］“Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” won over all
masterpieces
［D］it was successfully made just before the world financial
crisis
22. By saying“spending of any sort became deeply
unfashionable”Lines 1～2，Para?3，the author suggests that.
［A］collectors were no longer actively involved in art?market
auctions
［B］people stopped every kind of spending and stayed away from
galleries
［C］art collection as a fashion had lost its appeal to a great
extent
［D］works of art in general had gone out of fashion so they were
not worth buying
23?Which of the following statements is NOT true?
［A］Sales of contemporary art fell dramatically from 2007 to
2008?
［B］The art market surpassed many other industries in
momentum?
［C］The art market generally went downward in various ways?
［D］Some art dealers were awaiting better chances to come?
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