首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Fears of "mad cow" disease spread (1)_____ the globe last week (2)_____ South Africa, New Zealand and Singapore joining most of
Fears of "mad cow" disease spread (1)_____ the globe last week (2)_____ South Africa, New Zealand and Singapore joining most of
admin
2014-06-13
40
问题
Fears of "mad cow" disease spread (1)_____ the globe last week (2)_____ South Africa, New Zealand and Singapore joining most of Britain’s European Union partners in (3)_____ imports of British beef. In London, steak restaurants were empty following the March 20 announcement by scientists that they had found a (4)_____ link between mad cow disease from British beef and its human (5)_____, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease(CJD).
Efforts to reassure consumers and governments proved (6)_____. France, Germany, Italy, Finland and Greece were among countries which announced bans (7)_____ British beef shipments.
A committee of EU veterinary experts, meeting in Brussels, (8)_____ new protective measures but said transmission of the disease from cattle to humans was unproven and did not (9)_____ a general ban on British beef exports. Britain’s own main consumer group advised people to (10)_____ beef if they wanted to be absolutely sure of not (11)_____ CJD which destroys the brain and is always (12)_____.
"Could it be worse than AIDS?"
The stark headline in Friday’s Daily mail newspaper encapsulated the fear and uncertainty (13)_____ Britain. CJD (14)_____ humans in the same way that BSE makes cows mad—by eating away nerve cells in the brain (15)_____ it looks like a spongy Swiss cheese.
The disease is incurable. Victims show (16)_____ of dementia and memory loss and usually die (17)_____ six months.
Little is known (18)_____ sure about the group of diseases known collectively as spongiform encephalopathies, which explains (19)_____ some eminent scientists are not prepared to (20)_____ a human epidemic of AIDS-like proportions.
选项
A、fruit
B、fruitful
C、failure
D、fruitless
答案
D
解析
fruitless是fruitful的反义词,意为"没有成果的;无效的",放在此处比较切合文意,其句意为:各种想使消费者和各国政府放心的努力都是无效的。
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.kaotiyun.com/show/e9K4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Lowlevelsofliteracyandnumeracyhaveadamagingimpactonalmosteveryaspectofadults,accordingtoasurveypublishedyes
Lowlevelsofliteracyandnumeracyhaveadamagingimpactonalmosteveryaspectofadults,accordingtoasurveypublishedyes
Scientistsaroundtheworldareracingtolearnhowtorapidlydiagnose,treatandstopthespreadofanew,deadlydisease.SAR
Scientistsaroundtheworldareracingtolearnhowtorapidlydiagnose,treatandstopthespreadofanew,deadlydisease.SAR
Scientistsaroundtheworldareracingtolearnhowtorapidlydiagnose,treatandstopthespreadofanew,deadlydisease.SAR
Studythefollowingphotocarefullyandwriteanessayinwhichyoushould1)describethephoto,2)interpretthemeaningofth
Studythefollowingdrawingcarefullyandwriteanessayinwhichyoushould1)describethedrawing,2)analyzetheaimofthe
Theuniquefunctionofup-to-datetechnologicaldevicesliesinitsItisimpliedinthesecondparagraphthat
Credibilityaboutmessagesishigh,becausetheyarereportedinindependentmedia.Anewspaperreviewofamoviehasmorebeli
Thenumberofthecompaniesthatwereestablishedin2002isaboutAccordingtotheauthor,abusinessplanshouldinclude
随机试题
开证行仅凭受益人开具的汇票或简单收据而无须附带货运单据付款的信用证被称为()
下列融资工具按风险由大到小排列,正确的顺序是( )。
关于维护保险标的安全义务,下列说法中正确的有()。
全面从严治党,全面加强党的领导和党的建设,主要开展哪些教育活动?()
苏老师在上《现实主义美术》鉴赏课时,时而讲社会背景,时而讲创作理念和表现形式,时而讲解画家的逸闻趣事,还列举了二十余幅现实主义的美术作品,学生们听得津津有味。在讨论环节,老师展示米勒的作品《晚钟》,然后问大家:哪位同学能尝试鉴赏一下这幅作品?学生们感觉可说
违法发放林木采伐许可证罪
IE7.0浏览器将Web站点分成4种安全区域。其中,“Internet”区域的默认安全级别设置为(8)。
在μC/OS—II操作系统中,某任务的代码正在执行,则该任务应处于_________【75】态。若该任务需要等待键盘中断服务程序向其发送信息,则该任务转变为_________【76】态。
对一个由n关键码组成的序列,借助排序过程选出其中最大的关键码,要求关键码比较次数和移动次数最少,应当使用下列哪种排序方法?
请在“答题”菜单中选择相应的命令,并按照题目要求完成下面的操作。注意:以下的文件必须保存在考生文件夹下。校摄影社团在今年的摄影比赛结束后,希望可以借助PowerPoint将优秀作品在社团活动中进行展示。这些优秀的摄影作品保存在考试文件夹
最新回复
(
0
)