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        Youth football team members rescued more than two weeks after sudden flooding trapped them in a cave in Thailand are now being well looked after at a hospital in the northern city of Chiang Rai. In addition to treating the boys for potential body fluid loss, inadequate nutrition and lack of oxygen, their doctors also plan to closely monitor them for symptoms of diseases that may have been infected by animals living in the cave.

        "The next step is to make sure those kids and their families are safe, because living in a cave provides a different environment, which might contain animals that could transmit…disease," said the local hospital. The boys and their family members have been told to watch for symptoms such as headache, nausea(反胃), muscle pain or difficulty breathing, the reports added.

        Yet based on the location where the boys were trapped—more than four kilometers from the cave complex's main entrance, past some fully submerged passages—and the fact they have been swimming out wearing full scuba face masks, it seems unlikely that they were living with bats in the cave or breathed in bat-associated bacteria during their rescue, several infectious disease experts said. "It's hard to imagine bats got that deep into the cave because of all those narrow passageways, but it is possible," says Ian Lipkin, an animal expert and professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. "It's unlikely that there would be many animals in there," notes Jonathan Epstein, a doctor at EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that studies diseases and how to prevent them. Bats typically like to rest in areas they can easily enter and exit, not in places that fully flood, he adds.

        Bats in Thailand have been linked with a wide range of viruses that are similar to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)—Lipkin says. But it seems more likely the boys would have been exposed to infection-causing bacteria when they swam through the dirty water with cuts and scrapes. "If you are trying to prioritize issues with respect to health care for these kids, number one would be psychological damage and second will be bacterial infections from the cuts and scrapes they may have encountered." Lipkin says.

    1. (1) According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the potential symptom of the rescued team members?
      A . Lacking body water B . Unbalanced nutrition C . Adequate oxygen D . Pain in the head and muscles
    2. (2) The underlined word "submerged" in paragraph 3 means ________.
      A . bat-associated B . wild and dangerous C . with animals D . under the water
    3. (3) Which is true about the caves and the trapped people?
      A . Lipkin said the victims might be infected when their body were exposed to bacterial water during the rescue. B . Lipkin argued bats were not able to get deep into the narrow cave where the kids were trapped. C . Jonathan Epstein thought it possible for the team members to be attacked by bats in the fully-flooded cave. D . Lipkin believed the most important issue for the cave-trapped teenagers was infectious bacteria examination.
    4. (4) What is the text type of the passage?
      A . An academic essay about bats. B . A medical magazine. C . A newspaper article. D . A Thai website about sports.

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