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Lacking a cure for AIDS, society must offer education, not only by public pronouncement but in classrooms. Those with AIDS or th
Lacking a cure for AIDS, society must offer education, not only by public pronouncement but in classrooms. Those with AIDS or th
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2010-09-10
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Lacking a cure for AIDS, society must offer education, not only by public pronouncement but in classrooms. Those with AIDS or those at high risk of AIDS suffer prejudice, they are feared by some people who find living itself unsafe, while others conduct themselves with a "bravado (冒险心理)" that could be fatal. AIDS has afflicted a society already short on humanism, open-handedness and optimism. Attempts to strike it out with the offending microbe are not abetted (教唆) by pre-existing social ills. Such concerns impelled me to offer the first university-level undergraduate AIDS course, with its two important aims:
To address the fact that AIDS is caused by a virus, not by moral failure or societal collapse. The proper response to AIDS is compassion coupled with an understanding of the disease itself. We wanted to foster(help the growth of) the idea of a humane society.
To describe how AIDS tests the institutions upon which our society rests. The economy, the political system, science, the legal Establishment, the media and our moral ethical-philosophical attitudes must respond to the disease. Those responses, whispered, or shrieked, easily accepted or highly controversial, must be put in order if the nation is to manage AIDS. Scholars have suggested that how a society deals with the threat of AIDS describes the extent to which that society has the right to call itself civilized. AIDS, then, is woven into the tapestry (挂毯) of modem society; in the course of explaining that tapestry, a teacher realizes that AIDS may bring about changes of historic proportions. Democracy obliges its educational system to prepare students to become informed citizens, to join their voices to the public debate inspired by AIDS. Who shall direct just what resources of manpower and money to the problem of AIDS? Even more basic, who shall formulate a national policy on AIDS? The educational challenge, then, is to enlighten(启发) the individual and the societal, or public, responses to AIDS.
Why did the author offer the AIDS course?
选项
A、He wanted to teach people about a cure for AIDS.
B、People need to be taught how to avoid those with AIDS.
C、He wanted to teach the students that AIDS resulted from moral failure.
D、People take improper attitudes towards AIDS and those with or at high risk of AIDS.
答案
D
解析
作者在文中第一小段说了他开设AIDS course的原因。此小段最后一句是:Such concerns impelled me to offer the first university-level undergraduate AIDS course.那么such concerns指什么呢?在该句之前有三句,讲了三点,其中第一点就是人们对AIDS 病人或有 AIDS病的风险的人有偏见,有些人又太随便(with a bravado);这一点导致第二点:AIDS has afflicted a society。第三点是:并非早已存在的社会丑恶现象/病态教唆人们试图用有害的微生物去消灭艾滋病。暗示意思是说:人们这样做是有其深层的思想原因的。基于以上分析,结合文中第二、三小段,可以知道这一题答案是选项D,而不足选项A、B或C。
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