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Like every dog, every disease now seems to have its day. World Tuberculosis (infections disease in which growths appear on the l

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问题     Like every dog, every disease now seems to have its day. World Tuberculosis (infections disease in which growths appear on the lungs) Day is on Saturday March 24th.
    Tuberculosis was once terribly fashionable. Dying of "consumption" seems to have been a favorite activity of garret-dwelling 19th-century artists, h has, however, been neglected of late. Researchers in the field never tire of pointing out that TB kills a lot of people. According to figures released earlier this week by the World Health Organization, 1.6 million people died of the disease in 2005, compared with about 3m for AIDS and I’m for malaria. But it receives only a fraction of the research budget devoted to AIDS. America’s National Institutes of Health, for example, spends 20 times as much on AIDS as on TB. Nevertheless, everyone seems to getting in on the TB-day act this year.
    The Global Fund an international organization responsible fur fighting all three diseases but best known for its work on AIDS, has used the occasion to trumpet its tuberculosis projects. The fund claims that its anti-TB activities since it opened for business in 2002 have saved the lives of over 1m people. The World Health Organization has issued a report that contains some good news. Although the number of TB cases is still rising, the rate of illness seems to have stabilized; the caseload, in other words, is growing only because the population itself is going up.
    Even drug companies are involved. In the nm-up to the day itself, Eli Lilly announced a $50m boost to its MDRTB Global Partnership. MDR stands for multi-drug resistance, and it is one of the reasons why TB is back in the limelight. Careless treatment has caused drug-resistant strains to evolve all over the world. The course of drugs needed to clear the disease completely takes six mouths, anti persuading people lo stay that course once their symptoms have gone is hard. Unfortunately, those infected with MDR have to be treated with less effective, more poisonous and more costly drugs. Naturally, these provoke still more. non-compliance and thus still more evolution.
    The other reason TB is back is its relationship to AIDS. The (global Fund’s joint responsibility for the diseases is no coincidence. AIDS does not kill directly. Rather, HIV, the virus that causes it, weakens the body’s immune system and exposes the sufferer to secondary infections. Of these, TB is one of the most serious. It kills 200,000 AIDS patients a year. However, some anti-TB drugs interfere with the effect of some anti-HIV drugs. Conversely, in about 20% of cases where a patient has both diseases, anti-HIV drugs make the tuberculosis worse. The upshot is that 125 years after human beings worked out what caused TB, it is still a serious threat.
选项 A、every dog enjoys good luck or success sooner or later.
B、human beings can deal with problems caused by disease.
C、Tuberculosis becomes a serious infectious disease.
D、people attach importance to Tuberculosis recently.
答案D
解析 第一段：Like every dog，every disease now seems to have its day．World Tuberculosis Day is on Saturday March 24th．第二段：...Nevertheless，everyone seems to getting in on the TB-day act this year．第三段：The Global Fund，...has used the occasion to trumpet its tuberculosis projects．第四段：Even drug companies are involved．本题用英文谚语的形式来考查学生对文章开篇的理解，这与2004年真题第3篇文章(《美国经济发展放缓》)第1题的出题思路一致。本题既考查学生对于英语谚语的理解，同时也考查学生对文章主旨的把握，即：人们最近对肺结核病十分关注。注意：此类型题是文章开篇常考题，这种由英语文化背景等相关知识引出主旨的模式要熟练掌握。A是对成语every dog has its day的英文字面意思解释，不是本段引用该谚语的目的所在；B选项貌似主旨，但与第一句的意思有所偏差。虽然人们开始关注肺结核病的问题了，但并不意味着我们已经解决了此问题。注意：这种选项是对原文意思的延伸，干扰性极强。C认为肺结核病已经成为一种极其严重的传染病了，文章第一段确实提到了"infectious disease in which growths appear on the lungs"，但此内容仅仅是对Tuberculosis一词的解释。虽然众所周知，肺结核病是一种烈性传染病，但这与第一句话无关。谨记：正确的观点不一定是正确的答案，错误的观点也未必是错误的选项。
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