第三部分 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Beijing has reported its first death case of A/H1N1 flu, also the fourth on the Chinese mainland, health authorities said Wednesday. The patient, a freshman at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, had tested positive for A/H1N1 flu and died Tuesday, a spokesman with the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau said.

The young student and some other schoolmates developed fever and other flu symptoms during a military training--a compulsory training for freshmen at Chinese universities -- in the past week in Daxing District in suburban Beijing. The student was sent to a district hospital Monday as the physical condition deteriorated , but died Tuesday.

More than 3,000 freshmen from the university attended the military training starting October 22, and 28 out of 71 who had temperatures above 38 degrees Celsius had tested positive for A/H1N1 flu, the health bureau spokesman said. "The health and education authorities have ordered the university to improve prevention measures and quarantine the patients. Currently, they are all in stable condition and no severe case has been reported," he said.

The A/H1N1 flu has earlier caused three deaths on the Chinese mainland -- an 18-year-old woman in Tibet who died on October 4, a 43-year-old woman who died on October 16 in Tibet's neighboring province of Qinghai, and an unspecified patient who died on October 25 in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The Chinese mainland had reported 35,664 confirmed cases of the A/H1N1 flu by 3 p.m Monday, the Ministry of Health said.

56.              have been reported on the Chinese mainland

A. Four deaths    B. Three deaths   C. Two deaths    D. Five deaths

57. The underlined word “deteriorated” in Paragraph 2 most probably means       .

A. become better  B. become worse   C. become crazy   D. become silent

58. According to the news, we can see               

A. the government has done nothing about the flu           

B. the government hasn’t taken the flu seriously

C. the government has done something about the flu    

D. the government hasn’t known what to do                              

59. Which of the following is true?

A. The student died from the military training.

B. Only the student had a fever.

C. Those who have caught the flu will die

D. New students at Chinese universities must receive a military training