by Marcus Maurice
World AIDS Day is an opportunity to focus on a major problem around the world.
世界愛滋病日是關注全球重大問題的好時機。
The idea of choosing a day to simply
bring attention to a cause might seem like a small thing. For important issues like AIDS, though, it is not enough that only researchers and doctors are _(1)_ the problem. People
all over the world need to know about the situation. With World AIDS Day, the hope is to raise _(2)_ of AIDS and the difficulties people living with
HIV and AIDS have.
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)_ 33.4 million children and adults living with HIV and AIDS. Each year around World AIDS Day, charities and organizations have
seminars, classes, and
fundraisers with the focus on AIDS research.
From the start of the first World AIDS Day, each year has had a
slogan. This year's will _(6)_ the last few years' highly successful slogan, "Stop AIDS.
Keep the Promise." This was
decided on because 2010 is the year in which governments
the world over promised to provide
universal access _(7)_ HIV
treatment. On December 1 of this year, take the time to talk about how serious the AIDS
epidemic is as a way to
honor World AIDS Day.
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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) from(C) of (D) with
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