1、     All the recent news on AIDS is bad. The death of Rock Hudson ___36____ public concern about the ___37____ almost to the point of panic（緊張）. Now general concern is ___38____ not so much on personal risk but on the growing realization ____39_____ this disease is having a strong effect ___40_____ our society in a number of ways.

     For one thing, it is ____41_____ money and other resources. AIDS patients require long-term care in hospital. The Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta calculates that hospital expenditures for the first 10,000 AIDS patients were about $1. 4 billion. The ____42____ economic cost to the nation of AIDS cases is estimated to ____43____ to $6 billion in health care, disability, and ___44____ productivity.

     Private insurers（保險人） were unprepared for the crisis（危機） ____45____ the deadly disease hits mainly young people. It is becoming increasingly ___46_____ for those in high-risk groups to get health and life insurance(保險), and in the ___47______ of private coverage, public funds（資金） must be used. In ___48____, many AIDS victims are ____49_____ by disapproving or frightened friends and family, without employment and ___50_____ need of emotional and psychological ?????____51_____.

     There is also bad news on the medical ___52____. In spite of a stepped-up research program there is no ____53____ of a forthcoming breakthrough(突破) to a cure.

      Yet the physicians and others continue to work and to hope. Others not directly ____54____ can help by giving support to public funding for research, hospital and support services. A public resolve(決心) to provide care now and an eventual cure for those who suffer is the best ____55____.   

26、The new machine, as is put in the report, will work twice as fast, _______ greatly reducing costs.

A. so                B. even              C. yet                D. thus

25、 In a time of social reform, people’s state of mind tends to keep _______ with the rapid changes of society.

A. terms              B. pace              C. progress            D. touch

24、When you come to China you can’t help noticing a “can-do” attitude and a general sense that this is a society _______ is looking ahead.

A. where              B. as                C. who               D. that 

23、 I lay in the sofa, enjoying the beautiful music John had _______ out of his DVD.

      A. come            B. it come          C. it coming            D. coming

22、Hearing that most of the members voted against her, she _______ a smile.

     A. wore                B. managed          C. performed          D. controlled

21、After the children put up Christmas decorations, the whole room ________ a holiday appearance.

      A. took on             B. appeared            C. turned up            D. took out

20、―Are you going for an autumn outing?

 ―_____________________.

      A. It all depends                                  B. It is all depending

      C. It’s all depended                           D. It all depends on

19、Remember everybody you meet online is a stranger. So when you can’t see a person, they could be ________.

      A. everybody            B. somebody     C. anybody              D. nobody

18、―Tom, you look puzzled. Do you understand it?

―Yes. I __________ another problem just now.

      A. have thought of                               B. had thought of

      C. was thinking of                               D. am thinking of