Plague - Feb 26

I ________(发了一份电报) yesterday.

And obviously contagion is never absolute; otherwise you’d have a constant mathemetical progression and the death rate would ________(迅速增长) catastrophically.

The foci of infection are steadily extending. Judging by the rapidity with which the disease is spreading, it may well, unless we can stop it, kill off half the town ________(两个月不到).

Next day, ________(凭借/通过) a persistence that many thought ill-advised, Rieux persuaded the authorities to convene a health committee at the Prefect’s office.

The Prefect greeted them amiably enough, but one could see ________(他非常焦虑).

“But I ________(有义务做某事) add that there are specific modifications that don’t quite ________([完全]吻合) the classical description of the plague bacillus”

It’s not a question of ________(把情况想得太糟糕).

It would be necessary to apply the rigorous prophylactic measures ________(规定) in the Code.

Rieux ________(让Castel搭便车) to the Prefect’s office.

The Prefect seemed ruffled and remarked that, in any case, ________(这一论点) seemed to him unsound.

Rieux ________(坚持己见). “The point isn’t whether the measures provided for in the Code are rigorous, but whether they are needful to prevent the death of half the population.”

“All the rest is a matter of administrative action, and I needn’t remind you that our constitution has ________(规定 / 为...作准备) such emergencies by empowering prefects to issue the necessary orders.”