Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42.
Smallpox was the first widespread disease to be eliminated by human intervention. Known as a highly contagious viral disease, it broke out in Europe, causing the deaths of millions of people until the vaccination was invented by Edward Jenner around 1800. In many nations, it was a terror, a fatal disease until very recently. Its victims suffer high fever, vomiting and painful, itchy, pustules that left scars. In villages and cities all over the world, people were worried about suffering smallpox.
In May, 1966, the World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations was authorized to initiate a global campaign to eradicate smallpox. The goal was to eliminate the disease in one decade. At the time, the disease posed a serious threat to people in more than thirty nations. Because similar projects for malaria and yellow fever had failed, few believed that smallpox could actually be eradicated but eleven years after the initial organization of the campaign, no cases were reported in the field.
The strategy was not only to provide mass vaccinations but also to isolate patients with active smallpox in order to contain the spread of the disease and to break the chain of human transmission. Rewards for reporting smallpox assisted in motivating the public to aid health workers. One by one, each small-pox victim was sought out, removed from contact with others and treated. At the same time, the entire village where the victim had lived was vaccinated.
By April of 1978 WHO officials announced that they had isolated the last known case of the disease but health workers continued to search for new cases for additional years to be completely sure. In May, 1980, a formal statement was made to the global community. Today smallpox is no longer a threat to humanity. Routine vaccinations have been stopped worldwide.
It can be inferred from the passage that ___________.
A. yellow fever have been reported this year
B. no new cases of smallpox have been reported this year
C. smallpox victims no longer die when they contact the disease
D. smallpox is not transmitted from one person to another
Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu
Giải thích:
Có thể suy ra từ bài đọc rằng .
A. căn bệnh sốt vàng da đã được báo cáo xảy ra trong năm nay
B. không có trường nào mắc bệnh đậu mùa được báo cáo trong năm nay
C. những bệnh nhân mắc bệnh đậu mùa không chết khi tiếp xúc với căn bệnh này nữa
D. bệnh đậu mùa không lây từ người này sang người khác
Thông tin: By April of 1978 WHO officials announced that they had isolated the last known case of the disease but health workers continued to search for new cases for additional years to be completely sure. In May, 1980, a formal statement was made to the global community. Today smallpox is no longer a threat to humanity. Routine vaccinations have been stopped worldwide.
Tạm dịch: Đến tháng 4 năm 1978, các quan chức của WHO tuyên bố rằng họ đã cách ly trường hợp bệnh đã biết cuối cùng nhưng các nhân viên y tế tiếp tục tìm kiếm các trường hợp mới trong nhiều năm nữa để hoàn toàn chắc chắn. Vào tháng 5 năm 1980, một tuyên bố chính thức đã được đưa ra cho cộng đồng toàn cầu. Ngày nay bệnh đậu mùa không còn là mối đe dọa đối với nhân loại. Tiêm chủng định kỳ đã được dừng lại trên toàn thế giới.
Chọn C