包邮雅思全真强化试题精编·1

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《IELTS雅思全真强化试题精1》适合中高级英语水平考生强化训练。配有120分钟录音光盘，录音人员口音多样化，模拟真实考场情境。

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本书针对雅思考试特点，由资深雅思专家精编套题，涵盖雅思考试全部题型，对雅思考试出题思路及测试方向具有较强的针对性和前瞻性，适合中高级英语水平考生强化训练。

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插图：Malaria is the world's second most common disease, causing over 500 million infections and one million deaths every year. Worryingly, it is one of those diseases which is beginning to increase as it develops resistance to treatments. Even in the UK, where malaria has been effectively eradicated, more than 2,000 people are infected as they return from trips abroad, and the numbers are rising.It seems as though malaria has been in existence for millions of years and a similar disease may have infected dinosaurs.Malaria-type fevers are recorded among the ancient Greeks by writers such as Herodotus, who also records the first prophylactic measures: fishermen sleeping under their own nets. Treatments up until the nineteenth century were as varied as they were ineffective. Live spiders in butter,purging and bleeding, and sleeping with a copy of the Iliad under the patient's head are all recorded. The use of the first genuinely effective remedy, an infusion from the bark of the cinchona tree, was recorded in 1636 but it was only in 1820 that quinine, the active ingredient from the cinchona bark, was extracted and modern prevention became possible. For a long time the treatment was regarded with suspicion since it was associated with the Jesuits. Oliver Cromwell, the Protestant English leader who executed King Charles I, died of malaria as a result of his doctors refusing to administer a Catholic remedy！ Despite the presence of quinine, malaria was still a major cause of illness and death throughout the nineteenth century. Hundreds of thousands were dying in southern Europe, even at the beginning of the last century. Malaria was eradicated from Rome only in the 1930s, when Mussolini drained the Pontine marshes.Despite the fact that malaria has been around for so long,surprisingly little is known about how to cure or prevent it.Mosquitoes, who are the carriers of the disease, are attracted to heat, mois