B1 Unit 12 Text 1 英汉对照(未找到中文翻译).doc

PAGE 1 英语泛读教程1--Unit PAGE 1 Text One On the Wrong Side of the Global Divide Grace has a little place in the suburbs. Its not much, perhaps - the whitewash is coming off the walls, the red-baked ground is stoney and the persistently cheerful rhythms thumping from the bar round the corner look set to go on all night - but its impossible to be lonely in her one-room house in a block of four, surrounded by friends and their children, and its a short walk to work across the fields. She says shes happy. Shes just 30, shes single and she has a good job selling luxury shoes from a shuttered wooden kiosk in the Central Market, the exuberant commercial hub of Lilongwe. All her life should be spreading out before her, but a glance into the future shows death staring back, just a few years on. Like every fourth young man or woman in Malawis towns and every sixth in the villages, Grace Matnanga has the HIV virus running like a slow and silent poison in her veins. You cant tell who most of them are. They teach children, they police the streets, they work in hotel receptions and bring up children. They laugh and smile like every other Malawian. For months or years, they appear well. Then the downward spiral begins. Maybe next year, maybe in five years time, depending on how well she eats and how healthy she keeps herself, Grace will begin to lose weight. She will get an infection - it might be just a minor one - but after that she will get another, more serious. It could be pneumonia, it could be TB or it could be meningitis. There are drugs in Malawis hospitals to treat all three successfully, but each time she recovers, her immune system will be that little bit more battered, her weight lower and her chances of surviving diminished. The curves of healthy flesh will disappear. She will begin to look wasted and everybody she knows will understand why. Eventually her body will give up the fight, the pain and fever will engulf her and Grace will bec