本期雅思听力提分训练素材：两周后，流感得到缓解（For The Second Week, The Flu Epidemic Has Eased）。本听力素材来自NPR，NPR新闻是美国的国家公共广播，纯公益，所以内容更加去纯粹，直击心灵。可作为雅思听力泛听训练的日常素材，坚持长期听，除了锻炼英语听力，还能积累雅思听力词汇。
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雅思听力素材原文及部分翻译：
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
This year's nasty flu season has finally peaked. That's according to the latest report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Even so, NPR's Richard Harris says the disease is still widespread and will be around for weeks to come.
今年令人讨厌的流感季节终于到达峰值。根据疾病控制和预防中心的最新报告。即便如此，NPR的理查德哈里斯说这种疾病仍然很普遍，并且将在未来数周内持续。
RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE: For the second week in a row, reports of flu-related illness have declined nationwide.
ALICIA FRY: Flu season has peaked, and activity has started to decrease.
HARRIS: But Dr. Alicia Fry at the CDC's influenza division cautions that flu remains present throughout the nation and is widespread in 45 states. And people continue to die from the disease. The CDC tracks pediatric deaths carefully, and that tally has jumped another 17 to 114 in total for the season. Flu reports from hospitals are on the decline, but flu and flu-like illnesses are still responsible for about 5 percent of all hospital visits. The benchmark for that figure in the absence of a flu outbreak is 2.2 percent.
但是疾病预防控制中心流感科的Alicia Fry博士提醒说流感仍然存在于全国各地，并在45个州广泛存在。人们继续死于这种疾病。疾病预防控制中心对儿童死亡进行了仔细的追踪，这一数字在整个赛季中又上升了17到114。来自医院的流感报告正在下降，但是流感和流感样疾病仍然占了所有医院就诊的5%。在没有流感爆发的情况下，这个数字的基准是2.2%。
FRY: This season was one of our more severe flu seasons. And the activity got so high that even though now we're decreasing, we're still higher than we were some earlier seasons.
HARRIS: One reason this year was especially harsh is that people are more susceptible to serious illness from the main strain of the flu that circulated this year.
To make matters worse, the vaccine to protect people from that strain wasn't very effective. So the flu was still making people sick and still spreading even among people who were vaccinated. The good news is that, in recent weeks, a different strain of the flu has started to dominate, and the vaccine is much more effective in preventing that from causing disease.
FRY: We do recommend that people continue to get vaccinated if they haven't as long as there is flu circulating.
HARRIS: And Fry says flu could be circulating for some time to come.
FRY: We could have six more weeks of flu. Now it could be shorter. We don't know.
It's really hard to predict flu, but it could be, you know, a month and a half. We just don't know for sure.
HARRIS: And just because this flu season has peaked doesn't mean it's over. Richard Harris, NPR News.
雅思听力高频词汇
widespread 普遍的
vaccinate 接种疫苗
throughout 自始至终
predict 预测
peak 峰
outbreak 爆发
on the decline 在下降
nationwide 全国
in a row 在一行
division 分开
die from 死于
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