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Clinton hails China's AIDS progress, offers help

  Former U.S.President Bill Clinton said Wednesday China has made progress in fighting AIDS since he last visited in 2003 and his foundation would give drugs and help train doctors battling the disease.

  Experts have criticized China for being slow to recognize a growing AIDS problem, and the United Nations has said the country could have as many as 10 million cases by 2010 if precautions were not taken.

  “China has made impressive progress in building a comprehensive system of care for all Chinese patients in need, ”Clinton said at a reception in Beijing.

  The government has estimated China has 840,000 people with HIV or AIDS.

  Earlier, Clinton signed an agreement with the Chinese Health Ministry for the Clinton Foundation to provide about $ 70,000 worth of drugs to treat about 200 infected Chinese children.

  Clinton also announced the setting up of a fellowship to take urban doctors trained in treating AIDS to rural areas to treat people and train doctors.Several hundred physicians will be trained over the next two years, he said.

  Since leaving office, Clinton has campaigned to get AIDS drugs to people who do not have them.

  During his last visit to China in November 2003, Clinton said the disease could dampen(抑制)its booming growth.He also hugged a man infected with HIV at a public forum.

  Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao later made similar gestures, visiting AIDS patients publicly and voicing their determination to fight the disease.

  This month, Wen spent the Chinese Lunar New Year Eve with AIDS patients in rural Henan province, where many people in some villages were infected in blood-selling schemes in the mid-1990s.

  The whole of society needed to be mobilized to combat HIV/AIDS, Clinton cited Wen as saying.

  “I am confident that China will fulfil Premier Wen's promise to fight HIV/AIDS with the international community, to protect this nation and all humankind and I want to do our part, ”Clinton said.

(1)

All of the following statements are TRUE except ________.

[  ]

A.

Clinton set up a foundation to help Chinese children with AIDS.

B.

There are about 200 AIDS infected children in China.

C.

Hundreds of physicians will be trained in treating AIDS in the coming two years.

D.

Clinton once hugged a man infected with HIV.

(2)

The underlined word“combat”in the next-to-last paragraph can be replaced with“________”.

[  ]

A.

combine

B.

measure

C.

treat

D.

fight

(3)

We can infer from the passage that the Chinese government ________.

[  ]

A.

did a good job in solving the AIDS problem in the past few years

B.

hasn't realized the seriousness of the AIDS problem

C.

relies on Clinton to help with treating the children infected with AIDS

D.

will do its best to face the problem of AIDS

(4)

According to the information provided in this report, if the Chinese government dosen't take care of the AIDS problem, how fast will the number of infected AIDS people grow every year?

[  ]

A.

About 1.5 million to 1.8 million.

B.

About 2.2 million.

C.

About 3.1 million to 4.3 million.

D.

About 9.16 million.

答案:1.B;2.D;3.D;4.A;
解析:

(1)

B的錯誤之處在于200個感染的兒童是克林頓基金救治的對象,而不是全部感染的兒童數(shù)目.

(2)

如果不知道combat的詞義,根據(jù)上下文內(nèi)容特別是倒數(shù)第四段fight the disease可以推斷fight與combat是同義詞,可替換.

(3)

從文章最后提到,胡錦濤、溫家寶與艾滋病病人會面的報道看,中國政府已經(jīng)下定決心與艾滋病的蔓延作斗爭.所以D是正確的.從第二段知道,有些專家批評中國政府遲遲未意識到艾滋病的嚴(yán)重性,所以A并不恰當(dāng).B與D正好相反,C顯然是錯誤的說法.

(4)

這是一道細(xì)節(jié)題,只需要簡單的計算就可以得出正確的答案.根據(jù)文章提供的信息,現(xiàn)在中國有840,000人患有艾滋病,如果不采取措施,到2010年這個數(shù)目將達(dá)到10,000,000,其間經(jīng)過5、6年的時間,簡單的除法告訴我們A是正確的.


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