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More people die of tuberculosis (結核病) than of any |
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other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably |
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been the case in quite a while. During the early stages of |
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the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh |
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deaths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the |
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disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the |
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global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. With |
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occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and |
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infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily |
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through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, the |
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introduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened the |
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trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed |
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to be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers |
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declared victory and withdrew.
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They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of |
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infections and deaths started to pick up again around the |
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world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in |
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many places where it had never been away, it grew better.
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The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7 |
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billion people (a third of the earth’s population) suffer |
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from tuberculosis. Even the infection rate was |
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falling, population growth kept the number of clinical |
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cases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around |
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3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor |
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countries. 2001年6月大學英語六級短文改錯參考答案
71. in： for
72. seventh：seven
73. were：was
74. now： then
75. the： /
76. imported：exported
77. are：were
78. vanished：had ~
79. better：worse
80. constantly：constant |
