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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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2023-07-09
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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] What do we know about the AIDS patients the author has cared for?
选项
A、All of them need the help of medications.
B、Some of them die of refusing medications.
C、All of them die of AIDS eventually.
D、Some of them are killed by the fear of AIDS.
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。本题考查有关作者曾经照料过的病人的细节。该题可以使用排除法。A)“他们都需要药物的帮助”与原文意思不符,定位段提到,有些人根本不需要药物治疗,故排除;B)“他们中的有些人死于不愿接受药物治疗”符合原文意思,原文提到,到了不可救药的地步才肯服药的人,故为答案;C)“他们最终都会死于艾滋病”与原文意思不符,原文提到,有些人早已摆脱艾滋病,但到头来却死于肺癌等,故排除;D)“他们中的有些人死于对艾滋病的恐惧”原文未提及,故排除。
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