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　　二、选词填空(共1题，合计5分)

　　Questions (下列各题)are based on the following passage.

　　Basic health interventions may significantly reduce deaths among young children with sickle cellanemia ( 镰状细胞血症) The illness causes the body to produce sickle or disc shaped red blood cellsmaking it difficult for them to (36)_________oxygen from the lungs. The number of newborns with theinherited blood disease is increasing, (37)_________in sub-Saharan Africa.

　　A new study in PLOS Medicine says by 2050 over 400-thousand babies will be born every year withsickle cell anemia Sherry Webb is given an (38)_________ for pain relief by a nurse at the SickleCell Center in Truman Medical Center, Wednesday, March 7, 2007 in Kansas City. Pain management isvital in the care of patients (39)_________ from Sickle Cell disease. That's an increase of about100-thousand per year. Most of those births will occur in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo andIndia The three countries (40)_________for 75 percent of sickle cell newborns in 2010. Dr.Frederic Piel led the research by the University of Oxford in Kenya .

　　"It's a genetic disorder and if you (41)_________one copy of the gene from one of your parents, youdon't have any symptoms and you're called a (42)_________or a heterozygote individual. If youinherit two copies from your parents, then you have sickle cell anemia, which is quite.(43)_________and lethal in countries where there is no treatment (44)_________," he said .

　　It was initially limited to malaria endemic areas, but because of population (45)_________it's nowcommon in many other parts of the world So this is clearly a global burden and it's going toincrease.

　　A.accounted　 B.inherit　 C.several D.available

　　E.enlargement F.transport G.experiment H.carder

　　I.suffering J.send K.injection 　L.possible

　　M.movement N.especially O.severe