第四部分:阅读理解(15小题,小题2分,满分30分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项
Do you often play with your pet dog or cat? Do you like touching wild animals such as squirrels? They are cute. But be careful. If they bite you, you may get a terrible disease——rabies.
Believe it or not, in the last five months, rabies killed more people in China than any other disease.
2,254 people got rabies in the first nine months of this year. In September, 318 people died of rabies. That is 37 per cent more than last September.
Animals like dogs, cats, squirrels and bats can have rabies. If they bite or scratch someone, rabies could infect (感染) the person’s nervous system. The person could even die. It’s important to get the right treatment as soon as possible.
Every year, more than 50,000 people around the world die of rabies. Most of them are from developing countries. India has the most deaths. China is second.
51. Rabies is the name of _____.
A. a book B. a man C. a dog D. a disease
52. Paragraphs two and three _____.
A. teach people how to deal with rabies B. explain the situation in China
C. order people not to keep pets D. show what rabies is really like
53. Which of the following animals might NOT have rabies?
A. Squirrels. B. Ducks. C. Cats. D. Bats.
54. The Chinese for the underlined word “treatment” probably is _____.
A. 医生 B. 请客 C. 治疗 D. 待遇
55. What the best title for the passage?
A. Don’t keep pets B. How to keep pets
C. Watch out for rabies D. Pets with rabies