In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. AIDS is a terrible disease. It poses a th r eat to all the human beings without caring whether you are black or white , male or female, gay or straight, young or old. But what is at ri sk now is not just the people ____ 1 _____ with the disease. Human civilization itself is being ____ 2_ ___ . This is because the whole society tolerates both ignorance of and ___ 3 ____ against HIV or AIDS. Once diagnosed ( 被诊断 ) as HIV-positive, the victims are ___ 4 ____ or treated as outcasts. They are believed to have ____ _5 ____ something evil or to have entered some alien state of being. As a result, these poor people have to ____ 6 ____ the flickering candle of life from the cold wind of rejection by their family members. When they die of the ___ _7 ____ , their families dare not whisper the word AIDS. They just gr iev e silently. Thus, our prejudice and silence have helped the disease a lon g. Now HIV marches firmly towards AIDS in more than a million American homes, littering its p athway with the bodies of the young. To guard against the disease ___ _8_ ___ , we must take this iss u e ___ 9 ____ . People should be educated to bring those negative attitudes to an end. We should not see AIDS as something evil and the patients as alien. Instead, we should ____ 10 ____ ourselves with the prevention of the disease and render strong support to the patients with more compassion. Only in this way can we have a better chance of winning the war against AIDS. A. concern B. equipping C. iso l ated D. infected E. disease F. seriously G. sponsor H. s hel te r I. monitors J. p rejudice K. co n tra c ted L. effectively M. threatened N. resume O. guarantee