职称英语在线答题

每日一练：职称英语综合类每日一练(2015-1-21)
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More Efforts Urged to Empower Women at AIDS Conference1

Prevention is a central issue being discussedat the sixteenth International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada. Twenty-fourthousand delegates are at the conference which ends Friday.

Bill and Melinda Gates2 called for3 fasterresearch to, develop preventions like microbicidest for women to use when theyhave sex.___1___Melinda Gates said the way to “changethis epidemic” is to put power in the hands of women5.In southern Africa, for example, about sixty percent of adults living withHIV6; are women. Bill Gates said women today often have no choice but to dependon men not to infect them. “A woman should never needher partner's permission to save her own life,” he saidas the conference opened Sunday.___2___

On Monday, former President Bill Clinton saidmore people would get tested for HIV if an aggressive effort took place tofight the stigma. But reducing fears of social rejection is not enough.___3___

Researchers at the conference presented theresults of a new study of HIV testing. It involved more than one hundredthousand people tested in California last year. Some received a quick test,with results in about twenty minutes. The others received a test that is morecommonly used; the result takes two weeks. The researchers say twenty-fivepercent of the people who had the longer test did not return to learn theresults. ___4___George Lemp of the University of California led the study. Hesays quick tests could be especially important in developing countries withlimited transportation.

Speakers at the AIDS conference also discussedhigh rates of new HIV infections among black Americans. Julian Bond is chairmanof the NAACP7, a leading civil rights group.

___5___Public health officials say half of allnew HIV infections in the United States are in blacks. African-Americandelegates at the conference said they will prepare a five-year plan to reduceinfection rates and increase testing.

A .The chairman said African-Americans must, inhis words, “face the fact that AIDS has become a blackdisease.”

B. Mr. Clinton said people also need aguarantee they would get medicine to suppress the virus.

C. Delegates at the conference have worked outan action plan to fight the wide spread of this terrible disease all over theworld.

D. They hoped that such products could protectagainst infection with the virus that causes AIDS.

E. The world's richest man said “stopping AIDS”is the top priority of theBill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

F. But that was true of only two percent ofthose who had the quick test.