by Marcus Maurice
World AIDS Day is an opportunity to focus the world's eyes on a major problem.世界愛滋病日是讓全球關注重大問題的好時機。
The idea of choosing a day to simply
bring attention to a cause might seem like a small thing. But for important issues like AIDS, it is not enough that researchers and doctors are _(1)_ the problem. People
all over the world need to know about the situation. With World AIDS Day, people hope to raise _(2)_ of AIDS and the people living with HIV.
In 1988, the World Health Organization _(3)_ December 1 World AIDS Day during a
summit for AIDS
prevention. It has _(4)_
been put into practice by governments and organizations
around the world. The
object of this day is to
shed light on the myths about AIDS and to
publicize the fact that there are an _(5)_ 31 million people with HIV—and 2.5 million of these
victims are children. Each year around World AIDS Day, charities and organizations have
seminars, classes, and
fundraisers with the focus on AIDS research.
From the beginning of World AIDS Day, each year has had a
slogan. This year will _(6)_ last year's highly successful slogan, "Stop AIDS:
Keep the Promise." This slogan will be used until 2010, the year when governments around the world have promised to provide
universal access _(7)_ HIV
treatment. On December 1 of this year, take some time to talk with a friend about how serious the AIDS
epidemic is as a way to
honor World AIDS Day.
1. (A) building up (B) carrying out (C) taking over (D) working on
2. (A) guidance (B) awareness (C) response (D) celebration
3. (A) declared (B) measured (C) notified (D) exposed
4. (A) once (B) after (C) since (D) until
5. (A) estimating (B) estimated (C) estimation (D) estimates
6. (A) relieve (B) recall (C) repeat (D) remind
7. (A) to (B) for (C) of (D) with