22.12.6【地道美语259】有生之年还会遇到下一场疫情吗?Another epidemic

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今日主题：Real Life English【地道美语259】有生之年还会遇到下一场疫情吗?Another epidemic?

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Another epidemic?

dialogue 1

Jingjing:　Mark, do you think we'll face___________________?

Mark:　What now?　COVID isn't even over yet, and you're ______________something new?　I'm______.

Jingjing:　It's not like I'm___________ it.　I just wanted to_________.

Mark:　Well, the other pandemics that come to mind are the ________, ________, and the __________.　Those ________ over four centuries.

Jingjing:　Right.　Most people _________________________________.

Mark:　It's a pity for people who lived______________, though.　Weren't there ___________?

Jingjing:　There were_____, if you ________________ that started in the 1960s and still has cases __________ in Haiti.

Mark:　So, that's___________.　What about the black plague?

Jingjing:　I remember the year _____________.　That___________300 years.

Mark:　I remember we talked about a city—____________—that held out until the plague was almost gone from Europe and then ____________.

Jingjing:　Right.　Luckily, the plague and cholera are each pretty easy to___________.　With the black plague, humankind _______________ that most cases affected the digestive system.

Mark:　Bubonic plague, yes.　The other two ways to get sick were _________________, right?

Jingjing:　That's right.　And those other two types of infection together___________ less than _____________.

Mark:　That could______________.

Jingjing:　Anyway, the plague and cholera__________________keeping things clean.

Mark:　What about __________?

Jingjing:　That all ______________ two to three years, and _________ tens of millions of people.

Mark:　Jeez, that's a lot of ways _________ since_______________.

dialogue 2

Jingjing:　Mark, how would you describe _____________?

Mark:　A____________?

Jingjing:　_____________.

Mark:　Just checking.　Well, there's ___________or virus that typically lives in animals.　Somehow, people ______, and it spreads.

Jingjing:　When that happens, it's _______________.　Now, how about when________________________?

Mark:　That's easy: the disease ____________________where it began, and_______________.

Jingjing:　Did you know that there are ______________ that_____________ and birds?

Mark:　A million different types?

Jingjing:　That's right.　Scientists _______________—just as a number of viruses that those animals have which still _____________.

Mark:　Well, then, it's ___________________.

Jingjing:　Scientists and officials have had to work tirelessly to prevent avian flu from_____________.　Of those 1.7 million different viruses I mentioned, _____________could infect humans pretty easily.

Mark:　What would be really scary is_______________.

Jingjing:　You mean ___________________ at the same time?

Mark:　It seems like _________.

Jingjing:　It could, although it'd be about ______________.　Anyway, scientists_______________ with virtual pandemics, and found _________________being a pandemic year somewhere between 0.5% and 3.3%.

Mark:　Well, then, each teenager today______________________ in their lifetime.

Jingjing:　Virtual pandemics are interesting, because you can look at _______________________________.

Mark:　You mean ___________________?

Jingjing:　Of course not, silly!　I mean, with _______________and without it, with _________and without them.

Mark:　Those technologies will hopefully _________________.

Jingjing:　I hope so.　At most,______________ without a pandemic__________________10,000 or more people.

Mark:　Meanwhile,___________________ between Spanish flu and COVID.　Let's _____________.

new words and phrases

black plague

cholera

Spanish flu

basic care

luck out

pandemic

epidemic

bacterium

spillover event

double whammy