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  3. Instinctively, the first thing we want to know about a disease is whether it

Instinctively, the first thing we want to know about a disease is whether it

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问题     Instinctively, the first thing we want to know about a disease is whether it is going to kill us. Twenty-five years ago, this was the only question about AIDS we could answer with any certainty; now, it is the only question we really cannot answer well at all.
    By now, those of us in the AIDS business long term have cared for thousands of patients. No one with that kind of personal experience can doubt for a moment the deadly potential of H. I. V. or the life-saving capabilities of the drugs developed against it. But there are also now hundreds of footnotes and exceptions and modifications to those two facts that make the big picture ever murkier(扑朔迷离).
    We have patients scattered at every possible point: men and women who cruise on their medications with no problems at all, and those who never become stable on them and die of AIDS; those who refuse them until it is too late, and those who never need them at all; those who leave AIDS far behind only to die from lung cancer or breast cancer or liver failure, and those few who are killed by the medications themselves.
    So, when we welcome a new patient into our world, one whose fated place in this world is still unclear, and that patient asks us, as most do, whether this illness is going to kill him or not, it often takes a bit of mental stammering(口吃)before we hazard an answer.
    Now, a complete rundown of all the news from the front would take hours. The statistics change almost hourly as new treatments appear. It is all too cold, too mathematical, too scary to dump on the head of a sick, frightened person. So we simplify. " We have good treatments now," we say. " You should do fine. "
    Once, not so long ago, we were working in another universe. Now we have simply rejoined the carnival(嘉年华)of modern medicine, noisy and encouraging, confusing and contradictory, fueled by the eternal balancing of benefits and risks.
    You can win big, and why shouldn’t you, with the usual fail-safe combination of luck and money. You have our very best hopes, so step right up: we sell big miracles but, offer no guarantees. [br] A complete count of all the statistics about AIDS______.
选项 A、will promote new treatments to appear
B、will simplify doctors’ answers about AIDS
C、will be too cold and mathematical for doctors
D、will be influenced by new treatments
答案 D
解析 推理判断题。本题考查有关艾滋病数据统计方面的问题。由定位句可知，如果要完全概述这一战线的所有消息，那得花数小时的时间。随着新的治疗方法的出现，这些数据几乎每个小时都在变化。由此可推断，对艾滋病方面的数据统计会受到新出现的治疗方法的影响，故答案为D)。A)“会促进新治疗方法的出现”和B)“会简化医生对艾滋病相关问题的回答”原文均未提及，故排除；C)“对医生来说太过冰冷和精确”是对原文的曲解，原文是说这些冰冷、精确的数据会吓坏艾滋病人，故排除。
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