单选题 AIDS is mainly caused by ignorance (无知), and the only cure we have for AIDS at present is prevention. Your best protection is to learn how to say "No, thank you". If someone offers you something "great" from Hong Kong or the Golden Triangle (金三角), just say "No, thank you". If you are approached in a bar, or on the streets by a prostitute (妓女), just say, "No, thank you". If your boyfriend offers you a night of pleasure in his off-campus love nest, just say, "Thank you for your invitation, but I"d rather not. "
Smoking, drinking alcohol (酒), spread first among the "susceptibles", that is, those people who either are not informed about the dangers of these modern drugs or who, because of some other weakness (poverty, loneliness, desperation, etc. ) find it difficult to say "No, thank you".
But we must begin. And, in the case of the diseases of the modern world—lung cancer from smoking too much, coronary disease (冠心病) from Working too hard, mental diseases caused by stress and disappointment, and social and sexual diseases caused by "copying" the behavior of others, we must all learn to say (and to think) "AIDS stops here. I am not going to be a part of the problem".
China is on the march toward the future. But that future holds many, many new and sometimes terrifying dangers for all of us. If we are not prepared to face these new aspects of the modern world, we will be upset by them and our progress will be slowed down considerably. We must learn how to negotiate (谈判) with Western businessmen who have been negotiating for many more years than we have. We have to learn how to select those things which are good from other cultures and how to reject those things which are evil or harmful to us, as individuals and as a nation. We must learn how to blend the progressive and innovative (创新的) ideas from other countries into our great and noble culture.
单选题 The word "susceptibles" in Paragraph 2 refers to those who ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 语义题。见第2段。本段大意:吸毒、酗酒等不良习性都可能会第一时间感染那些缺乏抵抗力的人,而那恰是那些对现代毒品缺乏认知,以及那些因贫困、孤独、绝望而对诱惑无力说“谢谢你,但我不需要”的人。根据句子大意可以推测出susceptibles的词义:are easily influenced(易受感染的人)。
单选题 In Paragraph 4, "these new aspects of the modern world" means ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 语义题。参照第4段第1、2句可以得知:these new aspects of the modem world的意思是“the unknown dangers lying ahead(横亘在前方未知的危险)”。
单选题 The writer"s view about AIDS is that ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。参照第1段第1句,从而可以得知:导致罹患艾滋病的因素主要源于无知,当前防治艾滋病的主要措施是预防(prevention)。
单选题 According to the passage, sexual diseases are mainly the result of ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。从第3段第2句“...sexual diseases caused by "copying" the behavior of others...”可以得知:……性病的传播主要是因为人们“复制”他人的行为而引起的。
单选题 Which of the following statements do you agree with most?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 主旨题。通过对文章的理解可以得知,选项C是正确答案。文章的主旨就是告诉读者:艾滋病目前还无法治愈,因而治愈艾滋病的唯一途径就是预防。