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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.
Which of the following can best explain "AIDS tests the institutions upon which our society rests" according to the passage?
选项
A、AIDS is a sign of moral failure and social collapse.
B、AIDS indicates that our social systems have been very inefficient.
C、The responses of a society to the threat of AIDS determines whether and to what extent the society can be called civilized.
D、The spreading of the fatal disease suggests that the nation’ s resources have been wrongly used.
答案
C
解析
题干中引号部分出现在原文第三小段的第一句中。读者得先明白此句的意思:为了描述 AIDS如何考验我们的社会赖以存在的基本机构。文中后面的部分则说明这一句。此小段第四句(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 it civilized.)意为:学者们提出,一个社会如何应付艾滋病的威胁表明该社会在何种程度上有权称为文明社会。有常识的读者都知道,一个社会如何应付某一问题取决于社会的基本部分或机构如何应付它。因而应将这一句与第三小段第二、三句联系起来。可以看出这些社会机构对AIDS的反应与how a society deals with the threats of AIDS是一同事。
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