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最後一段的意思不是說insect repellent 可以保護的不只是惱人的蚊子嗎 ，甚至還有疾病

74 The Deadly Nuisance

ful bugle.”The creature he was
her一only the females be

we barricade ourselves behind screens, invest in
ec

ns when We inevitably get bitten. But for G
an inconvenience. It is als0 讓

D. H. Lawrence assailed it
speaking of was the mosquito-
merely a summertime nuisance

insect repellen and finally apply lotio

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ecognized as mofe tha

turies the mosquito bas beenr
carrier ofsome ofthe worlds deadliesr disease:

As a disease transmittep the mosquito has              1
the 人ver and chills of malaria. Although the United States an             eloped

nations have now either eradicated qr significantly coptreled this diseasey_imalaria
stilL afflicts_ more than 150 million people in the tropics killing more thana million
children a year in Africa alone.
Yellow fever is anorher disease carried by mosquitoes. has been brought under
control in Niorth America, so we tend to think ofit as an exotic disease. But though
itis now confined to Africa and South America, it retains 1ts deadly poWer
Encephalitis, which can cause brain damage Or death, is one mosquItO-DOID
human disease that still appears in the United States. Gormnmnon birds carry this
ease too, but its the pesky mosquito that transmits it to people. Most ofthe
yowr risk of contracting encephalitis is minimal, butithe chances increase When
id insect repellent ma

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been most frequently associated

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

mosquito population swells. So rermnernber, Screens

   

tection from much more than a mere nuisance。
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1he tnal Sentence of the passage implies that
te Writer thinks

口 a. disease-carrying mosquitoes St pose a
Signlfitcant threat,

 

L] b. screens and insect Tepellent are ineffective
Protection against mosquitoes.
區 c. the threat of disease being transmitted by

mosquitoes no longer exists in the U.S.
口 d. screens and insect repellent are the best
protection agatnst mosquitoes.                    (

Answer 1

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文章中為may而非the best
再用刪去法刪去b d （並非絕對
c仍存在（刪去
剩答案A