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It is absorbing financial and other resources.AIDS patients require long-term care in hospitals and outpatient facilities, and the health care systems in such cities as New York and San Francisco are not prepared to handle the demanD、Bellevue, a large and respected municipal hospital in New York, devotes one out of every four beds in its department of medicine toAIDS patients. Most are hospitalized for months, and few have any private insurance. TheCenter forDiseaseControl inAtlanta estimates that hospital expenditures for the first 10,000AIDS patients (there are now more than 16,000) were about ＄1.4 billion. The total economic cost to the nation of this group of cases is estimated to come to ＄6 billion in health care, disability, and lost productivity.
Private insurers were unprepared for the crisis since the invariably fatal disease hits primarily young people. Ninety percent of the victims are between 20 and 49 years olD、It is becoming increasingly difficult for those in high-risk groups to get health and life assurance, and in the absence of private coverage, public funds must be useD、In addition, many of the victims are, for all practical purposes, homeless, rejected by disapproving or frightened friends and family, without employment, and in need of emotional and psychological support. It must be given.
More important, there is bad news on the medical front. In spite of a stepped-up research program there is no sign of an imminent breakthrough to a cure. More than 8,000American victims have already died; no one has recovereD、The public has also learned that earlier assurances that only 5 to 10 percent of those who have been exposed to the virus will contract the disease were far too optimistiC、Researchers have now raised that figure to at least a thirD、Estimates of expected future cases have, accordingly, been adjusted upwarD、
A、Bellevue doctor reflected the despair of those who deal withAIDS patients every day: "The cost is staggering, the grief is overwhelming, and there is no end in sight." Yet these physicians and others continue to work and to hope. Others not directly involved can help by giving support to public funding for research, hospital and hospice care, and support services.A、public resolve to provide care now and an eventual cure for those who suffer is the best response.
B．ManyAIDS victims suffer not only physically, but also emotionally and psychologically.
C．People will refuse donated blood in the future because it is likely to containAIDS virus.
Doctors have lost their hope to see an eventual cure for, theAIDS patients.
网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
[设题处] 事实处设题 [解析] 第三段倒数第二句提到，此外，很多艾滋病病人因为现实的问题，被感到绝望或害怕的朋友和家人拒绝了，致使他们无家可归，同时也找不到工作，其实他们最需要情感和心理上的支持；末段首句提到，一位医生描述了那些艾滋病人绝望的心情：药价在猛涨，伤痛是无法抗拒的，根本看不到希望，由此可知答案为 [B]。由第三段第一、二句可排除[A]；由末段第二句可排除[D]；而[C]文中并未提到。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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