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2013 高考复习 湖北卷英语阅读理解Ⅰ 2007 年高考英语（湖北卷） 阅读理解题 第三部分：阅读理解（共 20 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 40 分） 阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（ A 、B 、C 和 D ）中，选出最佳选 项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Karen, grown up in a very traditional family in the western United States, maintained high moral standards throughout her youth.. In 1984,at the age of 23,she married Bill. They were blessed with two children, a boy and a girl. By 1991 their love had deepened, and they were happy. Later that year, Bill developed a white spot on his tongue. He visited a doctor. One day shortly after that, Bill called Karen to sit beside him. He said with tears in his eyes that he loved her and wanted to live forever with her. The doctor suspected that he had been infected with HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS. The family was tested. Bill and Karen s‘results were positive. Bill had become infected before he met Karen; then he passed the virus on to Karen. The children ’s results were negative. Within three years, Bill was dead. ―I don t know how to express what it is like to watch the once‘ handsome man you love and intend to live with forever dying slowly. I cried many nights. He died three months short of ten years of our marriage, ‖says Karen. Though a doctor told Karen that she would soon follow her husband into death, she is still alive. The infection has progressed to the early stages of AIDS. Karen is but one of about 30 million people now living with HIV/AIDS, a figure larger than the combined populations of Australia. Ireland and Paraguay. According to one UN report, Africa has 21 million of these victims. By the turn of the centur