单项选择题
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While people around the world are talking about the prevention and treatment of AIDS, let’s not (26) that we have had an old enemy, cancer, which (27) sounds horrible, but also, (28) to many ordinary people, appears invincible (不可战胜的).
There (29) now both good news and bad news. The good news is that scientists (30) believe, based on the recent advances of modem medicine, (31) it is possible to tame cancer in the next decade, transforming it from a scary disease to something (32) a chronic (慢性的) disease, like diabetes. (33) no one expects a cure for cancer in the near future, but many think that the hi-tech may finally (34) more effective treatment, making the issue much (35)
The (36) news is, (37) , about the current (38) Cancer rates are expected to increase at an alarming rate globally, (39) the most recent data from the World Health Organization. In 2000, 6 million people worldwide died from cancer. A sharp increase in new cases is predicted, (40) from 10 million new cases worldwide in 2000 to 15 million in 2020. In China, (41) 20 percent of all deaths are (42) to cancer, some 2 million people developed a malignant tumor (恶性肿瘤) in 2000, (43) one fifth of the world’s total. (44) those people, 1.5 million have died, accounting for one quarter of the global mortality. There is no doubt that cancer has become a (45) killer of mankind.
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