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A／Hl Nl Flu Continues to Spread Worldwide

BEUING，May l0（Xinhua）一The A/H1 N1 continues to spread（傳播）around the world as the disease has been confirmed（證實） in more than 4．150 people in 45 countries．

    Canada and Costa Rica confirmed their first death case on Saturday，so there are altogether 4 countries which have reported confirmed human death cases．

    In Costa Rica, a 53-year-old man became the first death case of the A／Hl N1 flu．In the Canadian province of Alberta．local health government said the A／Hl N1 caused the death of a woman in her 30s who died late April．

    But health officials said that both patients and the two deaths in the U．S．were having other health problems when they infected（感染）the disease．

    In Tokyo，a high school teacher and two teenage students tested positive for the disease at the airport after returning from a school trip to Canada．

    Australia’s local health government said Saturday that an Australian woman arriving in Sydney from Los Angeles tested “weak positive”．becoming the country’s first case．

    Also on Saturday New Zealand．the first country in the Asia—Pacific area to confirm A／Hl N1 flu cases．reported two more on Saturday．

    Mexico on Saturday raised the confirmed death to 48．（75）Schools in the capital Mexico City will start classes again on Monday, while two states in which new deaths have just appeared will continue the closing of schools for another week．

    Are there ways to reduce（減少）the spread of the disease?  “Cover your noses and mouths  when you cough or sneeze．wash your hands often．Avoid（避免）getting in touch with infected people，”New York health officials said．

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1．How many capital cities are mentioned（提到）in this passage? And what are they?

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2．In which four countries are death cases found?

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3．Why did a teacher and two students in Tokyo get infected?

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4．What else should we do to reduce the spread of the disease besides avoiding getting in touch with infected people?

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Answer 1

1．There are three/3．They are Beijing，Tokyo and Mexico City．

2．Canada，Costa Rica，'the US and Mexico．

3．Because they had／made a trip to Canada（答案不唯一，意思符合即可）

4．We should cover our noses and mouths when we cough or sneeze and（we should）wash our hands often．

5．首都墨西哥城的學校將于周一復(fù)課，而新出現(xiàn)死亡病例的兩個州將繼續(xù)停課一周。（答案不唯一，意思符合即可）