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Africa’s unhappy distinction of being the world’s epicentre of HIV, the infection causing AIDS, is being challenged by Asia, fro

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问题     Africa’s unhappy distinction of being the world’s epicentre of HIV, the infection causing AIDS, is being challenged by Asia, from where 40% of the disease’s growth is forecast to come over the next few years. Already in China, contaminated blood transfusions in some villages have claimed the lives of most young adults, leaving only children and their grandparents alive. In Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea(PNG), about 60% of hospital beds are now occupied by AIDS patients. Faced with predictions that AIDS could cost Asian and Pacific countries tens of billions of dollars a year by 2010, two initiatives involving co-operation between government, businesses and aid workers have been launched in Australia to try to stop its spread.
    The first is a partnership between the Australian government and the(Bill)Clinton Foundation, a global body set up four years ago by the former American president to fight AIDS. Australia will provide A $ 25m($ 18m)to work with the foundation in China, Vietnam and PNG, mainly to supply tests and anti-retroviral drugs. These are not necessarily the region’s three most afflicted countries: India, where 5m people live with HIV, has the most cases outside South Africa. But they do pose a risk of HIV spreading beyond their borders, especially from PNG, Australia’s closest neighbour and its former colony.
    Over the past decade, HIV has grown alarmingly in PNG to reach 50,000 estimated cases, about 2% of the adult population. Alexander Downer, Australia’s foreign minister, worries about HIV’s potential to become a "national catastrophe" there, possibly rising to 500, 000 cases by 2025. Unprotected sex has driven most of the spread in PNG. In China(500,000 estimated cases)and Vietnam(260,000 cases), contaminated blood transfusions, prostitution and intravenous drug use are the main avenues.
    The government-Clinton coalition will work with a second co-operative effort involving Australian companies that have operations in Asia. This has been formed through the Lowy Institute, a Sydney think-tank, which argues that AIDS, left unchecked, could prove another potential source of regional instability along with terrorism.
    Margaret Jackson, chairman of Qantas, Australia’ s biggest airline, who heads the business coalition, says having 8. 3m people infected with HIV in Asia and the Pacific threatens the economic life of Asia, especially that of China, Australia’s second-biggest export market. The outlook is grim: the number of sufferers is forecast to more than double to 20m by 2010—unless rich countries, like Australia, start exporting their own successful experience in curbing AIDS.
In China, ______ contributes most to HIV spreading.
选项 A、prostitution
B、unprotected sex
C、intravenous drug use
D、contaminated blood transfusions
答案D
解析 第一段第二句“Already in China，contaminated blood transfusions…their grandparents alive”和第三段最后一句“In China…contaminated blood transfusions…are the main avenues”都提到“contaminated blood transfusions”，并在导致“HIV spreading”的原因中放在了首位。所以，D应为答案。
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