AIDS is a terrible disease. It poses a t_________ (1) 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 a__ r__ (2) now is not just the people i_______ (3) with the disease. Human civilization itself is being threatened. This is because the whole society tolerates both ignorance of and p______(4) against HIV or AIDS. Once diagnosed( 被诊断 ) as HIV-positive, the victims are i_______ (5) or treated as outcasts. They are believed to have c________ (6) something evil or to have entered some alien state of being. As a result, these poor people have to s______ (7) the flickering candle of life from the cold wind of rejection by their family members. When they die of the disease, their families dare not whisper the word AIDS. They just g______ (8) silently. Thus, our prejudice and silence have helped the disease a______ (9). Now HIV marches firmly towards AIDS in more than a million American homes, littering its p_____ (10) with the bodies of the young. To guard against the disease effectively, we must take this i______ (11) the seriously. People should be educated to b_______ (12) those negative attitudes to an end. We should not see AIDS as something evil (13) and the patients as alien. Instead, we should c_____ o_______ w______ (14) the prevention of the disease and strong s_______ (15) to the patients with more compassion. Only in this render way can we have a better chance of winning the war against AIDS