Section C Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.5757-66

　　Instinctively, the first thing we want to know about a disease is whether it is going to kill us. Twenty-five years ago, tiffs was the only question about AIDS we couJd anwer with any certainty; now, it is the only question we really camaot answer well at all.

　　By now, those of us in the AIDS business long term have cared for thousands of patients. No one with that kind of personal experience can doubt for a moment the deadly potential of H. I. V. or the life-saving capabilities of the drugs developed against it. But there are also now htmdreds of footnotes and exceptions and modifications to those two facts that make the big picture ever murkier (扑朔迷离).

　　We have patients scattered at every possible point: men and women who cruise on their medications with no problems at all, and those who never become stable on them and die of AIDS; those who refuse them until it is too late, and those who never need them at all; those who leave AIDS far behind only to die from lung cancer or breast cancer or liver failure, and those few who are killed by the medications themelves.

　　So, when we welcome a new patient into our world, one whose fated place in this world is still unclear, and that patient asks us, as most do, whether this illness is going to kill him or not, it often takes a bit of mental stammering (口吃 ) before we hazard an answer,Now, a complete rundown of all the news from the front would take hours. The statistics change almost; hourly as new treatments appear. It is all too cold, too mathematical, too scary to dump on the head of a sick, frightened person. So we simplify. "We have good treatments now, we say. "You should do fine. "

　　Once, not so long ago, we were working in another universe.Now we have simply rejoined the carnival ( 嘉年华) of modern medicine, noisy and encouraging, confusing and contradictory, fueled by the eternal balancing of benefits and risks.

　　You can.win big, and why shouldn't you, with the usual fall-safe combination of luck and money. You have our very best hopes, so step right up: we sell big miracles but, offer no guarantees.

　　What does the author say about AIDS?A. It is definitely deadly twenty-five years ago.B. The patients want to know everything about it.C. We can answer anything about it with certainty now.D. We could not answer questions about it well before.

　　本题共8.3分，参考答案:A:

　　58What do we know about the AIDS patients the author has cared for?A. All of them need the help of medications.B. Some of them die of refusing medications.C. All of them die of AIDS eventually.D. Some of them are killed by the fear of AIDS.

　　本题共8.3分，参考答案:B:

　　59By "meutal stammering", the author means.A. they cannot give an exact answer to AIDS patientsB. they hesitate to tell the truth to AIDS patients who will dieC. tehy need to think about whether patients will die of AIDSD. they have to make up excuses to comfort AIDS patients

　　本题共8.3分，参考答案:A:

　　60A complete count of all the statistics about AIDS.A. will promote new treatments to appearB. will simplify doctors' answers about AIDSC. will be too cold and mathematical for doctorsD. will be influenced by new treatments

　　本题共8.3分，参考答案:D:

　　61What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?A. The life of AIDS patients was offered no guarantees not so long ago.B. AIDS can be got rid of with the fail-safe combination of luck and money.C. Doctors should offer AIDS patients their best hopes to encourage them.D. Moderu medicine brings about both benefits and risks to AIDS patients.本题共8.3分，参考答案:D:

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