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一、听力练习
1.
A. 5.
B. 53
C. 48.
D. 200.
2.
A. Fears caused last year when two babies died after receiving vaccinations.
B. Unexpected side effects of vaccination against measles.
C. Unaffordable vaccination cost.
D. Religious reasons for not vaccinating.
二、听力文本
The government of Samoa announced on Monday that five more children had died within the past day from measles. That raises the number of measles deaths on the Pacific island nation to 53 since late October. Forty-eight of the victims were children. The government has closed schools and is restricting travel before the Christmas holiday season. The French news agency AFP reports that the government said almost 200 new measles cases had been recorded since Sunday. There was no sign of the rate of infection slowing on Samoa, even with a mass vaccination program in effect. This is the latest outbreak of a worldwide epidemic of measles. The highly infectious virus found an at-risk population in Samoa. The World Health Organization, WHO, says only about 31% of the population was vaccinated when the outbreak started. Now there are more than 3,700 cases of measles recorded among the 200,000 people on the islands. Samoa has been racing to give vaccines to children since declaring a state of emergency on November 20. It has vaccinated over 58,000 people to date, the government said on Monday. Local media reports that Samoan officials blamed low coverage rates in Samoa on fears caused last year when two babies died after receiving vaccinations. The country's immunization program was temporarily suspended. The deaths were later found to have been caused by medications that were wrongly mixed.
Question 1: According to the news report, how many victims of measles in Samoa since late October were children?
Question 2: According to the news report, what should be blamed for the low coverage rates of vaccination against measles in Samoa?
三、重点词汇
1. measles: an infectious disease that produces small, red spots all over the body 麻疹；风疹
2. vaccination: the process or an act of giving someone a vaccine (= a substance put into a person's body to prevent them getting a disease) 接种疫苗
3. epidemic: the appearance of a particular disease in a large number of people at the same time （疾病的）流行，传染
4. immunization: the process of protecting a person or animal from an infectious disease by putting a substance into the body that makes it produce antibodies (= proteins in the blood that fight disease) 免疫接种

四、背景知识
近日，据外媒报道，太平洋岛国萨摩亚的麻疹爆发丝毫没有缓解的迹象，截至目前已经有数以千计的感染者，死亡人数超过60人，而且其中大多数是4岁以下的儿童，目前萨摩亚已经全力投入到大规模疫苗接种的运动中。而导致萨摩亚麻疹流行的原因也非常简单，其国内在2018年有两名婴儿在接受麻疹疫苗接种后不久就死亡。暂停疫苗接种调查后得出结论，是另一种药物使用不当所致，不过恢复疫苗接种后，许多萨摩亚父母都拒绝为自己的孩子接种疫苗，这一愚蠢决定的代价就是数十名儿童的死亡。法新社当地时间12月5日报道称，萨摩亚已下令所有企业和非必要的服务部门关闭，停运岛屿间渡轮、告诫人们不要开车上路，以全力开展疫苗接种等防疫工作，遏制疫情。世卫组织新发布的报告显示，2018年全球超过14万人死于麻疹。今年的情况更糟，1至11月全球麻疹病例数与去年同期相比增加了三倍。非洲国家刚果(金)已有超过5000人死于麻疹。疫情如此严峻，疫苗接种率连续十年停滞不前，世卫组织批评说这是“集体的失败”。
五、参考答案
Question 1: C
Question 2: A