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　　More people die of tuberculosis (結(jié)核病) than of any

　　other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably

　　been the case in quite a while. During the early stages of ___1____

　　the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh ___2___

　　deaths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the ___3___

　　disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the __4____

　　global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. With

　　occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and

　　infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily __5___

　　through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, the

　　introduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened the

　　trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed

　　to be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers ___6__

　　declared victory and withdrew.

　　They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of __7___

　　infections and deaths started to pick up again around the

　　world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in ___8___

　　many places where it had never been away, it grew better. ___9___

　　The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7

　　billion people (a third of the earth’s population) suffer

　　from tuberculosis. Even the infection rate was

　　falling, population growth kept the number of clinical

　　cases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around ____10___

　　3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor

　　countries。

　　參考答案及解析：

　　1.in -> for

　　動詞為完成式has been，后面的時間狀語應(yīng)該為一段時間。

　　2. seventh -> seven

　　3. were -> was

　　這句話的主語是one in every seven，表示單數(shù)概念，謂語要用單數(shù)。

　　4. now -> then

　　根據(jù)前一句的時間狀語During the early stages of the industrial revolution，此處時間應(yīng)表示“工業(yè)革命之后”，所以應(yīng)該是from then on.

　　5. the - > /

　　Europe是專有名詞，無需加定冠詞。

　　6. imported -> exported

　　import意為“進口，輸入”，export意為“出口，輸出”。根據(jù)本句大意，進出口的對象為發(fā)達國家生產(chǎn)的抗菌素，顯然只能“出口”到貧困國家。此外，根據(jù)介詞也可以判斷，import常與from搭配，export常與to搭配。

　　7. are -> were

　　8. vanished 前加 had

　　這句話的意思是：結(jié)核病在已經(jīng)絕跡的地方又卷土重來。從句謂語動詞發(fā)生在主句謂語動詞came之后，故用過去完成時。

　　9. better->worse

　　10. constantyl -> constant

　　副詞constantly并不能作狀語表示keep的狀態(tài)，而是說明賓語number的特征。Keep sth + adj.表示“使...保持..."，故將副詞改為形容詞，constant作賓語補足語。

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