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  3. Lacking a cure for AIDS, society must offer education, not only by public pronouncement but in classrooms. Those with AIDS or th

Lacking a cure for AIDS, society must offer education, not only by public pronouncement but in classrooms. Those with AIDS or th

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问题      Lacking a cure for AIDS, society must offer education, not only by public pronouncement but in classrooms. Those with AIDS or those at high risk of AIDS suffer prejudice; they are feared by some people who find living itself unsafe, while others conduct themselves with a "bravado" that could be fatal. AIDS has afflicted a society already short on humanism, open-handedness and optimism. Attempts to strike it out with the offending microbe are not abetted by pre-existing social ills. Such concerns impelled me to offer the first university level undergraduate AIDS course, with its two important aims.
     To address the fact the AIDS is caused by a virus, not by moral failure of societal collapse. The proper response to AIDS is compassion coupled with an understanding of the disease itself. We wanted to foster (help the growth of) the idea of a humane society.
     To describe how AIDS tests institutions upon which our society rests. The economy, the political sys- tem, science, the legal establishment, the media and our moral ethical-philosophical attitudes must respond to the disease. Those responses, whispered, or shrieked, easily accepted or highly controversial, must be put in order if the nation is to manage AIDS. Scholars have suggested that how a society deals with the threat of AIDS describes the extent to which that society has the right to call itself civilized. AIDS, then, is woven into the tapestry of modem society; in the course of explaining that tapestry, a teacher realizes that AIDS may bring about changes of historic proportions. Democracy obliges its educational system to prepare students to become informed citizens, to join their voices to the public debate inspired by AIDS. Who shall direct just what resources of manpower and money to the problem of AIDS? Even more basic, who shall formulate a national policy on AIDS? The educational challenge, then, is to enlighten the individual and the societal, or public responses to AIDS.  
What is the passage mainly talking about?
选项 A、The necessity of the education about AIDS.
B、How to achieve the aims of AIDS courses.
C、Risks associated with AIDS.
D、Social responses to AIDS,
答案A
解析 主旨题。文章第一段为全文的主旨段，第一句话即说明社会必须从公开宣传和课堂教育两个方面为人们提供关于AIDS的教育，然后分析了作者自己在大学开设AIDS课程的原因。而后面两段则是论述了他开设这一课程要达到的两个重要目标。因此不难看出全文主旨为A 。
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