That summer I drank every day, everywhere I went. I had a bottle in my drawer next to me and a bottle next to my bed. I never did another drug, but I drank so much that my family finally asked a priest for help. My father gave me a bottle of medicine for alcoholism that produces unpleasant symptoms when users drink alcohol. I drank while taking it, which made me very sick. And I still drank.
When the priest came, he said, "Jimmy, doctors said that with your diseases and the amount of drinking you’re doing, you’d be lucky to live another six months. So your choice is either to stop drinking and live or to continue drinking and die within six months.”
I said, "I know I can't stop, so guess I'll have to die." The priest told my family what I said. My little brother–who is like my soul mate, looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, "But we don't want you to die." All I could think of was how desperately I had to get out of that room at that moment and have a drink.
But I finally stopped drinking. I was on the care team of my dentist Russell. A lot of people in New York knew him. At the time he was the most famous dentist in the city. He drank heavily and was also with AIDS, so I was selected to be on his care team. Everybody on the team was sober (清醒) but me. He went through dementia (痴呆) and died so quickly before my eyes. I stopped drinking and I’ve been with the disease for 35 years now.
小题1: Why did the author’s father give him the bottle of medicine?
A．He wanted him to cure his illness.
B．He was trying to keep him dying.
C．He thought the medicine could make him sick.
D．He believed it could prevent him drinking.小题2: What did the priest mean by saying to the author “…you’d be lucky to live another six months” in the second paragraph?
A．The author would die after six weeks.
B．The author was too lucky to live for six months.
C．The author could hardly live for six months.
D．The author’s luck was only six months.小题3: How did the author stop drinking?
A．The dentist Russell helped him to stop it.
B．He was persuaded by the dentist Russell’s death.
C．His care team managed to inspire him.
D．His little brother’s soul saved him.小题4: What can we learn from the above story?
A．Drinking heavily increases AIDS patients’ illness.
B．Priests can cure many AIDS patients’ illnesses.
C．Drug taking and heavily drinking can cure AIDS patients.
D．Team work and patience can cure AIDS patients.
