Do you often play with your pet dog or cat? Do you like touching wild animals such as squirrels? They are cute. But be careful. If they bite you, you may get a terrible disease——rabies.
Believe it or not, in the last five months, rabies killed more people in China than any other disease. 2,254 people got rabies in the first nine months of this year. In September, 318 people died of rabies. That is 37 per cent more than last September.
Animals like dogs, cats, squirrels and bats can have rabies. If they bite or scratch（抓）someone, rabies could infect（感染）the person’s nervous system（神经系统）. The person could even die. It’s important to get the right
treatment as soon as possible.
Every year, more than 50,000 people around the world die of rabies. Most of them are from developing countries. India has the most deaths. China is second.
小题1:Rabies is the name of _____.
| A．a book | B．a man | C．a dog | D．a disease |
小题2:Paragraphs two and three _____.
| A．teach people how to deal with rabies. |
| B．explain the situation in China. |
| C．order people not to keep pets. |
| D．show what rabies is really like. |
小题3:Which of the following animals might NOT have rabies?
| A．Squirrels. | B．Ducks. | C．Cats. | D．Bats. |
小题4:The Chinese for the underlined word “treatment” probably is _____.
小题5:What the best title for the passage?
| A．Don’t keep pets | B．How to keep pets |
| C．Watch out for rabies | D．Pets with rabies |
