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Anniversaries are times for reflection, and this one should be no exception,
Anniversaries are times for reflection, and this one should be no exception,
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2024-10-10
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Anniversaries are times for reflection, and this one should be no exception, for the 30-year history of AIDS is a minor in which humanity can examine itself. From questionable scientists to philanthropic billionaires, people’s actions against AIDS, and reactions to it, have shown up the best and worst that humans have to offer.
Such dualism was there from the beginning, in the question of who discovered the AIDS-causing virus. There were two claimants. One, Robert Gallo, is American. The other, Luc Montagnier, is French. Dr. Gallo called his discovery HTLV-3. Dr. Montagnier called his LAV. They were in fact the same thing. It turned out, however, that Dr. Gallo’s virus had come from Dr. Montagnier’s laboratory. It was never conclusively proved how, though a contaminated sample may have been to blame. And Dr. Gallo was exonerated of any wrongdoing by an official investigation and is universally recognized to have done important work on AIDS. But only Dr. Montagnier won the Nobel prize—eloquent testimony to some people’s opinion of the whole affair.
Another source of conflict was whether HIV, as the virus eventually came to be known, was truly the cause of AIDS. At the beginning of the epidemic, that might have been debatable. Perhaps HIV was merely a passenger that took advantage of an immune system weakened by another cause? One once-respected scientist, Peter Duesberg, who did early research on viral causes of cancer, would not drop the idea. He insisted—and still insists—that the weakening of the immune system characteristic of AIDS is caused by drug-taking, and that HIV is, indeed , a passenger.
This theory would not have mattered much except that Thabo Mbeki, a former president of South Africa, made it out. Since South Africa has the world’s largest number of AIDS cases, and one of its highest infection rates, this was bad news, as was Mr. Mbeki’s health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who was appointed mainly because she agreed with him, and recommended beetroot and garlic as treatment for the disease. Only with the election of Jacob Zuma, who has himself been publicly tested for HIV, did South Africa return to sensible anti-AIDS policies.
Among the heroes, Bill Gates looms large. The foundation into which he poured much of his Microsoft fortune took AIDS seriously from the beginning, forming a particularly fruitful partnership with the government of Botswana, one of the worst-affected countries. And Nelson Mandela, the heroes’ hero, also cleaved eventually to the path of righteousness, even while admitting he had not done enough to combat AIDS during his own presidency of South Africa. [br] We know from the passage that the author
选项
A、believes Nelson Mandela should have done more with AIDS.
B、thinks very highly of the former president Nelson Mandela.
C、considers Bill Gates generous enough to donate more for AIDS.
D、assumes Botswana will defeat AIDS in the near future.
答案
B
解析
推断题。由选项中的Bill Gates和Nelson Mandela定位至末段。由该段末句中the heroes’hero可以推断出[B]符合文意。末段末句中的“…even while admitting he had not done enough to combat AIDS during hisown presidency of South Africa”表明曼德拉自己承认做得不够,但没有指出作者的看法,[A]无依据;末段第二句中只提到fruitful partnership,虽然可以判断取得了成效,但没有具体的结果,[D]无依据;同理,[C]项内容没有提及,无法推出。
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