趣味阅读两篇

众所周知，1981年，人类首次发现艾滋病病毒，而到1988年美国艾滋病患者就达到5万人，与此同时，艾滋病也似乎以超出人们想象的速度在世界各地传播。数年后，艾滋病在中国开始流行，假如艾滋病在中国失去控制，那后果将是不堪设想的！如果你对中国艾滋病的严重性时还不太了解，读一读下面这篇文章，它会帮助你有所了解的。

It is now commonly known that AIDS is a deadly disease. It does damage to human beings’immune system, weakening resistance to disease and leading to death due to utter weakness. To this day, there are no existing drugs that can kill the ADIS virus. It is a deadly battle between science and AIDS.

This is only one side of the story. Although it cannot be cured, AIDS is preventable. For those who have not caught the disease, the knowledge of preventive measures seems to be the most powerful weapon at hand.

Since the discovery of the first AIDS patient in 1985, the number of HIV carries is on an alarming rise in China and statistics show that young people are the more likely victims of AIDS. Nationwide there are 214 million people between the ages of 13 and 22, most of whom are students. If no measures are taken to protect these young people, it is almost certain that the threat of AIDS will be very real to them. There has been a great deal of misinformation concerning the transmission of AIDS.

One of the most misleading myths is that AIDS can be transmitted by casual physical contact such as kissing, shaking hands or sharing food containers. Surveys and investigations conducted in some universities and colleges show that half of those people questioned are not clear about how AIDS is transmitted, not to mention how it is prevented.

This is the driving force behind the State Education Commission’s decision to spread AIDS awareness information among college students and later to high school students and primary school students.

1. Why does the passage say that AIDS is a deadly disease?

A. Because it destroys the immune system of the human body.

B. Because the AIDS patients cannot resist disease and die.

C. Because the doctor can find no medicine to cure AIDS.

D. All of the above.

2. By writing

this is only one side of the story.The author suggests that _____.

A. although we cannot cure AIDS, we can manage to prevent it.

B. AIDS is very dangerous, but we should not be scared by it

C. AIDS is not curable, but doctors should not give up fighting against it

D. Although the doctor cannot cure the disease, yet he can help improve the patients?health

3. What does the passage say has happened in China since the first AIDS patient was discovered in 1985?

A. HIV carriers have learned to fight against aids.

B. More and more people have become HIV carriers.

C. More and more HIV carriers have died of AIDS.

D. Doctors have been alarmed by the large number of HIV carriers.

4. What can be concluded from the surveys and investigations mentioned in the passage?

A. 50 percent of college students have no idea how people become AIDS victims.

B. 50 percent of college students do not know how to prevent AIDS.

C. Many college students are not aware how people become AIDS victims.

D. Many college students did not mention AIDS prevention in the surveys and investigations.

5. Which of the following do you choose as the proper title of this passage?

A. China Fights AIDS

B. Young People Most Likely AIDS Victims

C. AIDS Information is Necessary?

D. AIDS―A Deadly Disease

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包装是每个人都需要的，但什么是恰当的包装呢？如何包装才能更具有魅力呢？下面的文章就谈到了这个问题。

A person, like a commodity, needs packing. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the person’s unique qualities to their advantages. To show personal attractiveness in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A skilled packager knows how to add art to nature without any signs of embellishment, so that the person so packaged is not a commodity but a human being, lively and lovely.

A young person, especially a female, shining with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating. Youth, however, comes and goes in a flash. Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to hide the marks made by years. If you still enjoy life enough to keep self-confidence and work at pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities, and your attractiveness and grace will remain. Elderly people are beautiful if their river of life has been, through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life, which now arrivers at a self-satisfied stage of quietness and calmness with no interest in fame or wealth. There is no need to make use of hair dyeing. The snow-capped mountain is itself a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old in step with the natural aging process so as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the elder’s company is like reading a thick book of deluxe (better quality) edition that attracts one so as to be unwilling to part with.

As long as one finds where one stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity sets up its brand by the right packaging.

1. It can be concluded from the text that _______.

A. people should be packed at all ages

B. people should be packed in a special way

C. elderly people also care about packing

D. proper packing makes people attractive

2. According to the author, if you want to keep in harmony with nature, you should ____.

A. due yourB. make up at young age

C. following the aging process

D. give up fame and wealth

3. For the middle-aged, attractiveness ______.

A. hardly existB. is the strongest

C. comes from the inside

D. comes from the appearance

4. The underlined sentence means that elderly people _____.

A. are usually packed like a finely-made book

B. experience a lot and have rich knowledge oflife

C. do a lot of traveling and can give you much information

D. enjoy reading thick books of beautiful nature and fairyland

5. What does the word exaggeration mean?

A. Overstate. B. Description. C. Show off.

D. Decoration.

Keys: DCCBA

1. D. 文章的主题，适当的化妆能使人具有吸引力。

2. C。在第二段倒数第二句我们清楚地了解作者的观点：要向自然保持和谐，就应该随着年龄的进程，不论是什么年龄，都会体现出魅力来。

3. C。文章的第二段：中年的美是内在的美。

4. B。由划线部分的意思我们可以得知：老年人经历丰富，知识渊博。

5. A。根据前句的going too far来推断出。