现代大学英语听力3原文及题目答案Unit 5.doc

Unit 5 Task 1 【答案】 A. 1) More than 38 million people 2) Ms. Stanecki is an UN AIDS Senior Adviser. She says that some of the fastest growing epidemics can found in Asia. 3) Intravenous drug use. 4) Anti-AIDS drags are widely available there. This has made some people pay less attention to the danger of becoming infected with HIV. B. 1) F 2) F 3) F 4) T C. worsening, five million, Africa, 25 million, one million, increase, political and financial, have access, one in five, more than half 【原文】 A new report by the UN AIDS organizations finds the global AIDS epidemic is worsening. The agency says more people in all regions around the world are becoming infected with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS. UN AIDS reports that significant progress has been made in providing treatment for larger numbers of AIDS victims and in achieving greater political and financial commitments in the fight against the fatal disease. Despite this, the report says none of these efforts has been enough to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. Last year, the report notes five million people became newly infected with HIV. That is more people than any previous year. Currently, it says, more than 38 million people are living with the disease. UN AIDS Senior Adviser Karen Stanecki says Asia, with 60 percent of the worlds population, is home to some of the fastest growing epidemics in the world. In 2003 alone, she says, more than one million people became infected with HIV. “Equally alarming, we have only just begun to witness the full impact of AIDS on African societies as infections continue to grow and people are dying in large numbers. The scale of the problem in Africa is well documented, with over 25 million infections. If we don’t act now, 60 percent of today’s 15-year-olds will not reach their 60th birthday.” The report says the Caribbean is the hardest hit region in the world after Africa. It also finds the HIV/AIDS epidemic is continuing to expand in Eastern Europe and Central