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The Spanish Flu Epidemic

If you’re worried aboutthe possibility of a coming bird flu epidemic, you can take comfort in the factthat humanity has survived a similar influenza epidemic in the past. Startingits rounds at the end of World War I, the 1918 flu killed an estimated 50million people.

Popularly known as the Spanish Flu, this typeof influenza was far worse than your common cold. Normally, influenza onlykills those who are more vulnerable to disease, such as newborns, the old orthe sick. However, the Spanish Flu was prone to killing the young and healthy.Often it would disable its victims in hours; within a day, they would be dead,typically from extreme cases of pneumonia(肺炎).

The Spanish Flu was quite nasty-fast-spreadingand deadly. It managed to spread across the globe, devastating the world. Thensuddenly, after two years ravaging(蹂躏)the Earth, itdisappeared as quickly as it had arisen.

Despite its nickname, the Spanish Flu did notoriginate in Spain. Its true origins are unknown. Some believe it started in USforts and then spread to Europe as America joined the war; others think that itpopulated the trenches of the English and the French and eventually broke out in1918. Regardless of where it started, eventually a fifth of the worldpopulation suffered the disease, with a global mortality rate(死亡率)estimated at 2.5% of the population.

Modernity was partly to blame for the quickspread of the disease. It passed throughout the world on trade routes andshipping lines. It hit Northern America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the SouthPacific. The war did not help at all-the movement of supplies and troops aidedthe spread of the Spanish Flu, as well as the trench warfare. Imagine the speedat which a virus can spread in a crowded ditch. The fast emergence of the virusin the trenches caused some soldiers to believe that the Spanish Flu was a newform of biological warfare.

Luckily, the Spanish Flu simply vanished by1920. It is believed the flu simply ran out of fuel to spread.

1. The Spanish Flu started during World War I.

A. Right

B.Wrong

C. Not mentioned

2.The Spanish Flu posed a greater threat to theold and the sick.

A. Right

B.Wrong

C. Not mentioned

3.As the Spanish Flu was spreading, people inAustralia were worried.

A. Right

B.Wrong

C. Not mentioned

4.The Spanish Flu disappeared two years afterit broke out.

A. Right

B.Wrong

C. Not mentioned

5.The Spanish Flu was named after the placewhere it started.

A. Right

B.Wrong

C. Not mentioned

6.About half of the people in the worldsuffered from the Spanish Flu.

A. Right

B.Wrong

C. Not mentioned

7.Biological warfare originated in the 20thcentury.

A. Right

B.Wrong

C. Not mentioned

网考网参考答案：A、B、C、A、B、B、C
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13%的考友选择了B选项
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