2019年12月四级第2套选词填空原文翻译及答案解析

Finally, some good news about airplane travel. If you are on a plane with a sick passenger, you are unlikely to get sick. That is the __26__ of a new study that looked at how respiratory (呼吸道) viruses __27__ on airplanes Researchers found that only people who were seated in the same row as a passenger with the flu, for example—or one row in front of or behind that individual—had a high risk of catching the illness. All other passengers had only a very __28__ chance of getting sick, according to the findings. Media reports have not necessarily presented __29__ information about the risk of getting infected on an airplane in the past. Therefore, these new findings should help airplane passengers to feel less __30__ to catching respiratory infections while traveling by air.

最后，关于航空旅行有一个好消息。如果你乘坐的飞机上有乘客生病，你感染疾病的可能性很低。这是一项研究呼吸道病毒在飞机上传播方式的新研究得出的结论。研究人员发现，例如，只有与流感患者坐在同一排、或位于该乘客前一排或后一排的人，才有较高的患病风险。根据研究结果，其他所有乘客生病的机会微乎其微。过去，媒体报道未必能准确传达在飞机上感染风险的信息。因此，这些新发现应能让航空旅客在飞行时减少对呼吸道感染的担忧。

Prior to the new study, little was known about the risks of getting __31__ infected by common respiratory viruses, such as the flu or common cold, on an airplane, the researchers said. So, to __32__ the risks of infection, the study team flew on 10 different __33__ in the U.S. during the flu season. The researchers found that passengers sitting within two seats on __34__ side of a person infected with the flu, as well as those sitting one row in front of or behind this individual, had about an 80 percent chance of getting sick. But other passengers were __35__ safe from infection. They had a less than 3 percent chance of catching the flu.

研究人员说，在这项新研究之前，人们对在飞机上直接感染常见呼吸道病毒（如流感或普通感冒）的风险知之甚少。因此，为了评估感染风险，研究团队在流感季节乘坐了美国10个不同的航班。研究人员发现，坐在流感感染者两侧两个座位内的乘客，以及坐在该乘客前一排或后一排的乘客，生病的几率约为80%。但其他乘客基本上不受感染影响，他们感染流感的几率不到3%。