超星 - On the wrong side of the global divide: Vocabulary - 查题吧

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Eventually her body will give up the fight, the pain and fever will engulf her and Grace willbecome just another AIDS statistic.

A. replace
B. wait for
C. overwhelm
D. go with

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But she knows too well what is in store.

A. obvious
B. hidden
C. right now
D. to come

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When she died, aged three, she was a pitiful, wasted scrap, the ulcers in her throat and mouthmaking the pain of swallowing more vicious than the pangs of hunger.

A. difficult
B. fierce
C. obvious
D. soft

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She eats as well as she can afford to, which is not as well as she should,but better than manyMalawians in the year afer massive crop filure, exacerbated by the permanent absence of so manyyoung womcn and men who should be working in the fields.

A. worsened
B. inflicted
C. improved
D. produced

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If she becomes sice, she will lose her pob and her home, her diet will deteriorate and so will her health.

A. improve
B. worsen
C. stop
D. increase

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She would see her GP, who woud send her to a consultant, who would put her on antiretroviraldrugs (ARVs).

A. one who is a practitioner
B. one who is a doctor
C. ne who is a lawyer
D. one who gives professional advice

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She, too, understands what is happening to her body and is only too aware that the sole chance ofthwarting the virus lies out of her reach.

A. opposing sucessfully
B. exposing eventually
C. confining rigidly
D. diminishing considerately

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When they arrive at around 7:30 am, they get tea and rice or maize porridge which allows themto learn their ABC and do s few sums without the familiar, distracting cramps of hunger.

A. involving
B. disturbing
C. embarrassing
D. increasing

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Two of Dessa's own three children have been sent to cousins in Blantyre, 360 km away, since she fell ill and lost her job as a cashier in an Indian shop and the family had to face its financial inability to cope.

A. manage
B. assist
C. support
D. succeed

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As she sits among her smart sandals and a tiny mock-leopard skin handbag, doing very litlebusiness because it is the quietest time of year, when families have just scraped together every last kwacha to pay for school fees, Grace's cheerful serenity slips just for a moment.

A. manner
B. disposition
C. tranqulity
D. confidence

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