plague高考英语外刊 美国疫情：确诊人数超过8.3万,位居世界第一

US overtakes China, Italy in total confirmed coronavirus cases

The United States now has more confirmed coronavirus cases than Italy and China,

making it the country with the largest outbreak in the world.

The

total

number

of

cases

in

the

U.S.

reached

82,404

Thursday

evening,

eclipsing

China’s 81,782 cases and Italy’s 80,589, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins

University.

“The

pandemic

is

accelerating,”

WHO

Director

-General

Tedros

Adhanom

Ghebreyesus

said

Monday

at

a

press

briefing

from

the

or

ganization’s

Geneva

headquarters. “It took 67 days from the first reported case to reach 100,000 cases, 11

days for second 100,000 cases, and just four days for the third 100,000 cases.”

Confirmed

U.S.

cases passed

5,000

last

week. At

the

beginning

of

the

month,

there

were roughly 100 confirmed cases in the U.S.

The number of

confirmed cases likely underestimates

the true number of infections

across the country, officials have acknowledged. Testing in the U.S. has been hampered

by delays and a restrictive diagnostic criteria that limits who can get tested.

With 37,258 confirmed cases as of Thursday morning, New York state accounts for

nearly half of all cases in the U.S., according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. He warned that

the rapid growth of confirmed cases is

partly due to a “backlog” of infections that had

never been confirmed due to lack of testing.

Major outbreaks in hot spots such as New York threaten to overwhelm the local hospital

systems,

which

have

a

limited

number

of

beds,

staff

and

equipment,

particularly

ventilators, a potentially life-saving device. Cities and states across the country have

rolled out strict measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

About

20

states

have

issued

stay-at-home

orders

or

advisories

and

have

closed

nonessential

businesses.

Seven

states

and

Washington,

D.C.,

have

shuttered

nonessential businesses. Several cities or counties in Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania

have issued individual stay-at-home orders in the absence of statewide mandates.

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US overtakes China, Italy in total confirmed coronavirus cases

A. delays B. infections C. accounts D. accelerating E. spots

F. measures G. absence H. lack I. potentially J. issued K. critically

The United States now has more confirmed coronavirus cases than Italy and China,

making it the country with the largest outbreak in the world.

The total number of cases in the U.S. reached 82,404 Thursday evening, eclipsing

China’s 81,782 cases and Italy’s 80,589, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins

University.

“The

pandemic

is

(31)

_______,”

WHO

Director

-General

Tedros

Adhanom

Ghebreyesus

said

Monday

at

a

press

briefing

from

the

organization’s

Geneva

headquarters. “It took 67 days from the first reported case to reach 100,000 cases, 11

days for seco

nd 100,000 cases, and just four days for the third 100,000 cases.”

Confirmed U.S. cases passed 5,000 last week. At the beginning of the month, there

were roughly 100 confirmed cases in the U.S.

The

number

of

confirmed

cases

likely

underestimates

the

true

number

of

(32)

______ across the country, officials have acknowledged. Testing in the U.S. has been

hampered by (33) ______ and a restrictive diagnostic criteria that limits who can get

tested.

With 37,258

confirmed

cases

as

of

Thursday

morning,

New

York

state

(34)

_______ for nearly half of all cases in the U.S., according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. He

warned

that

the

rapid

growth

of

confirmed

cases

is

partly

due

to

a

“backlog”

of

infections that had never been confirmed due to (35) ________ of testing.

Major outbreaks in hot (36) _______ such as New York threaten to overwhelm

the local hospital systems, which have a limited number of beds, staff and equipment,

particularly ventilators, a (37) _______ life-saving device. Cities and states across the

country have rolled out strict (38) ________ to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

About 20 states have (39) _______ stay-at-home orders or advisories and have

closed

nonessential

businesses.

Seven

states

and

Washington,

D.C.,

have

shuttered

nonessential businesses. Several cities or counties in Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania

have issued individual stay-at-home orders in the (40) _______ of statewide mandates.

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三、核心词汇

accelerate

accelerated

accelerates

accelerating

acceleration

accelerations

accelerator

accelerators

account

accounted

accounting

accounts

unaccounted

critic

critical

critically

critics

uncritical

uncritically

curb

curbed

curbing

curbs

delay

delayed

delaying

delays

hamper