Question

【題目】Directions：Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Cure isn’t a word normally used in the 【1】 of AIDS. For most of the 35 years since HIV, the virus responsible for the disease, was first identified, doctors have viewed the notion of a cure as more 【2】 than fact.

That’s because HIV is a virus unlike any other. It disables the very immune cells that are 【3】 to destroy it, carrying out the ultimate deadly ambush（埋伏）whenever the guard of immune 【4】 comes down, months or sometimes even years later.

Yet for the first time in the HIV epidemic that 【5】 affects nearly 37 million people worldwide, some experts are starting to aim for a cure cautiously. The National Institutes of Health（NIH）is funding HIV cure efforts and advocacy groups like amfAR are also 【6】 resources into not just treating HIV, but also finding ways to eliminate it completely.

“Absolutely HIV can be cured,”says Rowena Johnston, vice president and director of research for amfAR.“The question is how.”

Doctors today have no trouble keeping HIV under control in people who are infected, thanks to antiretroviral（ARV）drugs, which stop the virus from replicating（復(fù)制）. If it is not making more copies of itself. HIV cannot spread to infect new cells. That can 【7】 into healthier, longer lives for people who are HIV-positive.

Powerful as the current drug treatments are, they can’t actually 【8】 the body of infected cells. For self-preservation, some HIV lies latent（潛伏性的）inside certain immune cells. These are the viruses that come coaring back when people stop taking their medications.

But the latest report this month revealed the strongest evidence that these latent viruses can be activated and eliminated, at least in animals. Dr. Dan Barouch and his colleagues showed that a drug that stimulates the immune system, 【9】 with a powerful antibody, prevented HIV from roaring back in five of 11 animals, six months after they stopped taking ARVs.“I think our data raises the 【10】 that an intervention achieving a functional cure is possible,”says Barouch.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】H

【2】G

【3】C

【4】J

【5】K

【6】I

【7】A

【8】B

【9】D

【10】E

【解析】

本文是一篇說(shuō)明文。主要內(nèi)容是艾滋病被認(rèn)為是無(wú)法治愈的，但由于全世界感染病毒人數(shù)之多，引起了一些組織和機(jī)構(gòu)的注意并開(kāi)始尋找消滅艾滋病的方法。

【1】考查名詞。句意：“治愈”這個(gè)詞在艾滋病的語(yǔ)境中并不常用。分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，空處填名詞，再根據(jù)句意可知，context是名詞，意為“文本、語(yǔ)境”，與題意相符，故選H。

【2】考查形容詞。句意：自從艾滋病病毒首次被發(fā)現(xiàn)以來(lái)的35年里，醫(yī)生們認(rèn)為治愈艾滋病的想法更多的是幻想而不是事實(shí)。分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，空處填形容詞，根據(jù)句意可知，more…than…意為“不是……而是”，fantasy在此處做形容詞，意為“虛幻的”，故選G。

【3】考查固定搭配。句意：它會(huì)破壞原本要摧毀它的免疫細(xì)胞，在幾個(gè)月甚至幾年之后，當(dāng)免疫防御系統(tǒng)崩潰時(shí)，它就會(huì)進(jìn)行終極的致命伏擊。分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，空處填動(dòng)詞，根據(jù)句意可知，be supposed to是固定搭配，意為“本該、應(yīng)該”，與題意相符，故選C。

【4】考查名詞。句意：它會(huì)破壞原本要摧毀它的免疫細(xì)胞，在幾個(gè)月甚至幾年之后，當(dāng)免疫防御系統(tǒng)崩潰時(shí)，它就會(huì)進(jìn)行終極的致命伏擊。分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，空處填名詞，根據(jù)句意可知，immune defense意為“免疫防御”，與題意相符，故選J。

【5】考查副詞。句意：然而，在目前影響全球近3700萬(wàn)人的艾滋病流行中，一些專家首次開(kāi)始謹(jǐn)慎地尋找治療方法。分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，空處填副詞，currently是副詞，意為“目前”，與題意相符，故選K。

【6】考查動(dòng)詞。句意：美國(guó)國(guó)立衛(wèi)生研究院(NIH)正在資助艾滋病病毒的治療工作，像amfAR這樣的倡導(dǎo)組織也在投入大量資源，不僅用于治療艾滋病，而且還在尋找徹底消滅艾滋病的方法。分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，空處填動(dòng)詞，且此處用現(xiàn)在進(jìn)行時(shí)，再根據(jù)句意可知，pour是動(dòng)詞，在此處意為“傾注、投入”，與題意相符，故選I。

【7】考查動(dòng)詞。句意：艾滋病毒不能傳播感染新細(xì)胞。這可以轉(zhuǎn)化為艾滋病毒陽(yáng)性患者更健康、更長(zhǎng)壽的生活。分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，空處填動(dòng)詞原型，translate into意為“轉(zhuǎn)化為”，與題意相符，故選A。

【8】考查動(dòng)詞。句意：盡管目前的藥物治療很有效，但它們實(shí)際上無(wú)法清除體內(nèi)的感染細(xì)胞。分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，空處填動(dòng)詞原型，rid意為“使擺脫”，與題意相符，故選B。

【9】考查過(guò)去分詞。句意：丹·巴魯奇博士和他的同事們展示了一種刺激免疫系統(tǒng)的藥物，結(jié)合一種強(qiáng)大的抗體，在11只動(dòng)物停止服用抗逆轉(zhuǎn)錄病毒藥物6個(gè)月后，阻止了其中5只動(dòng)物的艾滋病毒卷土重來(lái)。分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，空處和其后短語(yǔ)做a drug的后置定語(yǔ)，再結(jié)合句意可知，be combined with意為“與……相結(jié)合”，所以此處略去be動(dòng)詞，用過(guò)去分詞combined做后置定語(yǔ)，故選D。

【10】考查名詞。句意：我認(rèn)為我們的數(shù)據(jù)提出了一種剝離方法，即干預(yù)實(shí)現(xiàn)功能性治療是可能的。分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，空處填名詞，根據(jù)句意可知，deprive在此處用作名詞，意為“剝奪、剝離”，與題意相符，故選E。