Karen, grown up in a very traditional family in the western United States, maintained high moral(道德的)standards throughout her youth. In 1984, at the age of 23, she married Bill. They were blessed with two children, a boy and a girl.

By 1991 their love had deepened, and they were happy. Later that year Bill developed a white spot on his tongue. He visited a doctor.

One day shortly after that, Bill called Karen to sit beside him. He said with tears in his eyes that he loved her and wanted to live forever with her. The doctor suspected that he had been infected with HIV , the virus that leads to AIDS。

The family was tested. Bill and Karen’s results were positive. Bill had become infected before he met Karen; then he passed the virus on to Karen. The children’s results were negative. Within three years, Bill was dead. “I don’t know how to express what it is like to watch a once handsome man you love and intend to live with forever dying slowly. I cried many nights. He died three months short of ten years of our marriage,” says Karen. Though a doctor told Karen that she would soon follow her husband into death, she is still alive. The infection has progressed to the early stages of AIDS.

Karen is but one of about 30 million people now living with HIV/AIDS, a figure larger than the combined populations of Australia, Ireland and Paraguay. According to one UN report, Africa has 21 million of these victims. By the turn of the century that number could reach 40 million and the disease will bring on the greatest disaster in human history. Of the world’s sexually active adults aged 15 to 49, 1 in 100 has already been infected with HIV. Of these, only 1 in 10 realizes that he or she is infected. In some parts of Africa, 25 percent of the adults are infected.

Since the beginning of the spread of AIDS in 1981, about 11.7 million people have died of it. It is roughly calculated that in 1997 alone, about 2.3 million people died of it. Nevertheless, there are fresh reasons for optimism in the battle against AIDS. During the past few years, there has been a drop in new AIDS cases in wealthy nations. In addition, promising drugs hold out hope of better health and longer life.

64. By telling the story of Karen, the author intends to __________________.

A. warn people against high risk behaviours

    B. stress the importance of medical test

    C. express sympathy for AIDS victims

    D. show the consequences of AIDS

65. The underlined part in Paragraph 1 most probably means “__________________”.

A. were lucky in having      B. were asked to adopt

C. regretted having          D. gave birth to

66. Bill was suspected of being infected with HIV after __________.

A. he got married to Karen

    B. the family members were tested

    C. Karen persuaded him to see the doctor

    D. he found something wrong with his tongue

67.It can be concluded from the passage that _________.

    A. promising drugs will soon stop AIDS

    B. the spread of AIDS could be controlled

    C. it is hopeless to win the battle against AIDS

    D. the death rate of AIDS patients has been reduced

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       A.假如你是上海某中学学生何琳,美国一所中学将于今年暑假组织学生来你校开展交流活动。活动期间,Catherine将借住你家。请你代表家人写~封信,对她的到来表示欢迎,并告知有关活动安排。信的内容要点如下:

时间

活动安排

第一天

了解学校课程开设、学生学习情况等

第二天

游世博园

晚上

逛街、品风味小吃或看电视、玩游戏、聊天

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       1.词数:120左右:

       2.可适当添加细节,以使行文连贯:

       3.开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。(如选择此篇写作,请把F面所给出的开头和结尾抄在答卷纸上)

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