An experimental treatment that causes AIDS patients to develop a dangerously high fever has shown promise as a way of prolonging and improving the patients’ life.Called the Biologic-HT System, the new treatment lets doctors extract the blood of a patient and heat it before circulating it back into the body. The heated blood causes the patient’s body temperature to rise above 42 degrees Celsius. In people with AIDS, that increase in temperature kills some heat-sensitive HIV, the virus, most doctors say, causes AIDS.
Heating the blood of AIDS patients has been tried before, say doctors. But during previous attempts, the treatment induced deadly chemical changes in the blood. The Biologic-HT System prevents those changes from happening, allowing the heat to kill viruses with few ill side effects.
The new heat treatment cannot be considered a cure for Aids, says president of the company that makes the system. He says the treatment doesn’t kill all traces of the virus. However, it kills enough virus particles to give a patient’s immune system a reprieve in its deadly duel with HIV.
Tests of the Biologic-HT treatment began on 36 patients earlier this year. The treatment takes about four hours, and the patient normally feels well enough to leave the hospital or clinic the following morning.
So far, the patients who have had the treatment say they feel better and have developed no new opportunistic infections—disease that strike people with damaged immune systems. The patients also have experienced about a 50 percent increase in the number of T cells in their bodies. T cells are key disease-fighting cells of the immune system and the main target of HIV

  1. 1.

    This passage is mainly concerned with ____________

    1. A.
      a way for treating AIDS
    2. B.
      a heat-sensitive virus
    3. C.
      the immune system of the human body
    4. D.
      the function of high temperature
  2. 2.

    The blood of the patient___________

    1. A.
      is heated with a single injection
    2. B.
      is heated by being circulated at a higher rate
    3. C.
      is taken out from the body and then circulated through a heating system
    4. D.
      is taken out from the body, heated outside and then put back into the body
  3. 3.

    The previous attempts to use high temperature for treating AIDS failed because they_________

    1. A.
      caused chemical changes
    2. B.
      could not kill HIV effectively
    3. C.
      resulted in deaths
    4. D.
      killed both HIV and healthy cells
  4. 4.

    According to the passage, the new treatment___________

    1. A.
      can kill all the HIV viruses
    2. B.
      cannot eliminate the viruses completely
    3. C.
      can double the number of disease-fighting cells
    4. D.
      can reconstruct the patient’s immune system
  5. 5.

    The result of the experiment seems to be ___________

    1. A.
      disappointing
    2. B.
      incomplete
    3. C.
      successful
    4. D.
      surprising
ADABC
試題分析：本文講述了一種新型的治療艾滋病的方法，把病人的血液抽出來，加熱以后再輸回病人的體內(nèi)，通過這種方式來治療艾滋病。
1.A 主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章主題段第一段第一行An experimental treatment that causes AIDS patients to develop a dangerously high fever has shown promise as a way of prolonging and improving the patients’ life.說明本文是關(guān)于治療艾滋病的一種新的治療方法，故A正確。
2.D 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第一段3,4行the new treatment lets doctors extract the blood of a patient and heat it before circulating it back into the body.說明是把病人的血液先抽出來，然后進行加熱，最后在輸回病人體內(nèi)，故D正確。
3.A 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第二段1,2行Heating the blood of AIDS patients has been tried before, say doctors. But during previous attempts, the treatment induced deadly chemical changes in the blood.說明在先前的實驗中，病人的血液在加熱的過程中出現(xiàn)了問題，故A正確。
4.B 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第3段2,3,4行He says the treatment doesn’t kill all traces of the virus. However, it kills enough virus particles to give a patient’s immune system a reprieve in its deadly duel with HIV說明這種方法并不能完全第殺死艾滋病的病菌，故B正確。
5.C 推理題。根據(jù)文章最后一段So far, the patients who have had the treatment say they feel better and have developed no new opportunistic infections—disease that strike people with damaged immune systems. The patients also have experienced about a 50 percent increase in the number of T cells in their bodies. T cells are key disease-fighting cells of the immune system and the main target of HIV.說明到目前為止這個治療的方法是成功的，故C正確。
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點評：本文講述了一種新型的治療艾滋病的方法，本文屬于科普類的短文，此類文章的最大的障礙是詞匯以及考生對閱讀內(nèi)容的不熟悉，需要考生在閱讀的時候有足夠的耐心。要養(yǎng)成在上下文串聯(lián)中猜測詞義的能力，根據(jù)上下文中出現(xiàn)的同義詞，近義詞，反義詞，以及詞義的解釋來理解生詞。同時要抓住文章的中心，不要受其他信息的影響。要根據(jù)題目及選項以及文章的上下文串聯(lián)合理的判斷推理。
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But Lucien, the stars are still there, and one day, when you are older and your tears have gone, you will see them again. And, in a strange way, I expect that you will find your father is there too, in your mind and in your heart. I find that my parents, long dead now, still figure in many of my dreams and that I think of them perhaps more than I ever did when they were alive. I still live to please them and I' m still surprised by their reactions. I remember that when I became a professor, I was so proud, or rather so pleased with myself, that I couldn't wait to cable my parents. The reply was a long time in coming, but when it did, all Mother said was “I hope this means that now you will have more time for the children!” I haven' t forgotten. The values of my parents still live on.
It makes me pause and think about how I will live on in the hearts and minds of my children and of those for whom I care. Would I have been as ready as Philip Lawrence have been to face the aggressors (挑釁者)，and to lay down my life for those in my care? How many people would want me back for Christmas? It's a serious thought, one to give me pause.
I pray silently, sometimes, in the dead of night, that ancient cry of a poet “Deliver my soul from the sword (劍), and my darling from the power of the dog.” Yet I know the death comes to us all, and sometimes comes suddenly. We must therefore plan to live forever, but live as if we will die tomorrow. We live on, I'm sure, in the lives of those we loved, and therefore we ought to have a care for what they will remember and what they will treasure. If more parents knew this in their hearts to be true, there might be fewer knives on our streets today

  1. 1.

    According to the whole text we can see that the first paragraph ________

    1. A.
      explains the importance of a telescope
    2. B.
      shows the writer's pity on the kid
    3. C.
      acts as an introduction to the discussion
    4. D.
      makes a clear statement of the writer's views
  2. 2.

    In the second paragraph the author mainly wants to explain to us ________

    1. A.
      how much he misses his parents now
    2. B.
      why his parents often appear in his dream
    3. C.
      when Lucien will get over all his sadness
    4. D.
      how proud he was when he succeeded in life
  3. 3.

    In the writer's opinion, the value of a person’s life is ________

    1. A.
      to leave behind a precious memory to the people related
    2. B.
      to have a high sense of duty to the whole society
    3. C.
      to care what others will remember and treasure
    4. D.
      to share happiness and sadness with his family
  4. 4.

    What feeling did the author’s mother express in her reply?

    1. A.
      Proud
    2. B.
      Happy
    3. C.
      Disappointed
    4. D.
      Worried

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