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I was 8 years old when I found out my father was ill. It was 1993, but I can remember my mother's words as if it were yesterday. “Jessica, I don't want you to take food from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very careful when you are around him.”
AIDS wasn't something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family secret. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could take care of himself. But when I was 11, his condition worsened. My father's other children lived far away, so it fell to me to look after him.
We couldn't afford all the necessary medication for him, and because Dad was unable to work. I had no money for school supplies and often couldn't even buy food for dinner. I would sit in class feeling completely lost, the teacher's words muffled as I was thinking how I was going to manage.
I didn't share my burden (負(fù)擔(dān)) with anyone. I had seen how people reacted to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be cruel. When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside even though he was too weak to feed himself.
I had known that he was going to die. But after so many years of keeping his condition a secret, I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days. Sad and hopeless, I called a woman at the nonprofit (非營(yíng)利的) National AIDS Support. That day, she kept me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who cared. She saved my life.
I was 14 when my father died. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didn't want to call attention to AIDS. I do.
（1）What does Jessica tell us about her father?
A.He had stayed in the hospital since he fell ill.
B.He depended on the nurses in his final days.
C.He worked hard to pay for his medication.
D.He told no one about his disease.
（2）What can we learn from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3?
A.Jessica was too tired to hear her teacher's words.
B.Jessica had special difficulty in hearing.
C.Jessica was too troubled to focus on the lesson.
D.Jessica couldn't understand her teacher.
（3）Why did Jessica keep her father's disease a secret?
A.She was afraid of being looked down upon.
B.She thought it was a shame to have AIDS.
C.She found no one willing to listen to her.
D.She wanted to obey her mother.
（4）What's the meaning of the word “cruel” in Paragraph 4?
A.慘淡的
B.無情的
C.粗魯?shù)?/span>
D.痛苦的
（5）Why did Jessica write the passage?
A.To tell people about the sufferings of her father.
B.To show how little people knew about AIDS.
C.To draw people's attention to AIDS.
D.To help her remember her father.

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）D
（2）C
（3）A
（4）B
（5）C
【解析】本文是一篇記敘文，作者的父親是一個(gè)艾滋病患者，在當(dāng)時(shí)受到了周圍人的歧視。 作者感到悲傷難過，但是后來獲得他人的幫助，生活重獲希望，他想喚起人們對(duì)艾滋病的關(guān)注和理解。
（1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)最后一段中的“He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone”可知D正確。
（2）考查句義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)文中第三段前面講到家庭狀況很差，不能負(fù)擔(dān)父親的醫(yī)療費(fèi)、我上學(xué)需要的錢甚至是吃飯的錢，因此很受困擾。這種困擾帶到課堂上，影響了上課，因此選C。
（3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第四段中的“ I had seen how people reacted to AIDS.”我看到過人們對(duì)待艾滋病的態(tài)度，并且舉例說明。因此作者不告訴別人的原因是怕別人看不起。故選A。
（4）考查詞義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)第四段中的“Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease.”孩子們嘲笑那些父母患有這種疾病的同學(xué)，可推知And even adults could be cruel意為：甚至成年人可能也是無情的。故選B。
（5）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“He didn't want to call attention to AIDS. I do.”可知寫這篇文章的目的是為了引起人們對(duì)艾滋病的重視，選C。