2021军队职称英语考试完型填空:卫生类C级:(1)
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Once-daily pill could simplify HIV trea tment
Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences have combined many H.I.V.drugs into a single pill Sometimes the best medicine is more than one kind of medicine.Malaria,tuberculosis and H.I.V./AIDS,2 for example,are all treated with ____1____ of drugs.But that can mean a lot of pills to take.It would be ____2____ if drug companies combined all the medicines into a single pill,taken just once a day.
Now,two companies say they have done that for people just ____3____ treatment for H.I.V.,the virus that causes AIDS.The companies are Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences.They have ____4____ a single pill that combines three drugs currently on the market.3 Bristol-Myers Squibb sells one of them ____5____ the name of Sustiva.4 Gilead combined the ____6____,Emtriva and Viread,into a single pill in two thousand four.
Combining drugs involves more than ____7____ issues.It also involves issues of competition ____8____ the drugs are made by different companies.The new once-daily pill is the result of ____9____ is described as the first joint venture agreement of its kind in the treatment of H.I.V.
In January the New England Journal of Medicine5 published a study of the new pill.Researchers compared its ____10____ to6 that of the widely used combination of Sustiva and Combivir.Combivir ____11____ two drugs,AZT7 and 3TC.8 The researchers say that after one year of treatment,the new pill suppressed H.I.V.levels in more patients and with ____12____ side effects.9 Gilead paid for the study.Professor Joel Gallant at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore,Maryland,led the research.He is a paid adviser to Gilead and Bristol-Meyers Squibb as well as the maker of Combivir,GlaxoSmithKline.
Glaxo Smith Kline reacted ____13____ the findings by saying that a single study is of limited value.It says the effectiveness of Combivir has been shown in each of more than fifty studies.
The price of the new once-daily pill has not been announced.But Gilead and Bristol-Myers Squibb say they will provide it at reduced cost to developing countries.They plan in the next few months to ask the United States Food and Drug Administration10 to ____14____ the new pill.
There are limits to who could take it because of the different drugs it contains.For example,____15____ women are told not to take Sustiva because of the risk of birth disorders.11 Experts say more than forty million people around the world are living with H.I.V.
词汇:
malaria n.疟疾
tuberculosis n.结核(病)
joint adj.联合的,共同的
suppress vt.抑制
pregnant adj.妊娠的,有孕的
注释:
1.HIV(human immunodeficiency virus):人免疫缺陷病毒
2.AIDS(acquired immunodeficiency syndrome):获得性免疫缺陷综合征,艾滋病
3.(be/come)on the market:出售
4.Sustiva以及后面出现的Emtriva、Viread和Combivir都是治疗艾滋病药物的商品名。
5.New England Journal of Medicine:新英格兰医药杂志。New England是美国东北六州(Maine,Vermont,New Hampshire,Massachusetts,Rhode Island和Connecticut)的总称。
6.英国英语中compare with是“与…相比较”的意思,compare to是“把……比作……”的意思,但在美国英语中compare to也有compare with的意思,这里就是“把……与…相比较”的意思。
7.AZT(Azidothymidine):叠氨胸苷(能抑制引起艾滋病的人免疫缺陷病毒)
8.3TC:拉夫米定(一种胞嘧啶核苷衍生物,能抑制乙肝病毒和人免疫缺陷病毒的逆转录酶的活性,改善肝脏组织的病变)
9.side effect:副作用
10.United States Food and Drug Administration(FDA):美国食品与药品管理局
11.birth disorder:先天性疾病
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