短句问答24:医疗技术
I have great confidence that by the end of the decade well know in vast detail how cancer cells arise, says microbiologist Robert Weinberg, an expert on cancer. But. he cautions, some people have the idea that once one understands the causes, the cure will rapidly follow. Consider Pasteur. He discovered the causes of many kinds of infections, but it was fifty or sixty years before cures were available.
This year, 50 percent of the 910,000 people who suffer from cancer will survive ai least five years. In the year 2000. the National Cancer Institute estimates, that figure will be 75 percent. For some skin cancers, the five-year survival rate is as high as 90 percent. But other survival statistics are still discouraging-13 percent for lung cancer. and 2 percent for cancer of the pancreas(胰腺)。
With as many as 120 varieties in existence, discovering how cancer works is not easy. The researchers made great progress in the early 1970s. when they discovered that oncogenes. which are cancer-causing genes , are inactive in normal cells. Anything from cosmic rays to radiation to diet may activate a dormant oncogene. but how remains unknown. If several oncogenes are driven into action the cell. unable to turn them off. becomes cancerous.
The exact mechanisms involved are still mysterious, but the likelihood that many cancers are initiated ai the level of genes suggests that we will never prevent all cancers. Changes are a normal pan of the evolutionary process. says oncologist William Hayward. Environmental factors can never be totally eliminated; as Hayward points out, We cant prepare a medicine against cosmic rays.
The prospects for cure.though still distant, are brighter.
First we need io understand how the normal cell controls itself. Second,we have to determine whether there are a limited number of genes in cells which are always responsible for al least pan of the trouble. If we can understand how cancer works. we can counteract its action.
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我很有把握,到本年代末,我们会非常详细地了解到癌细胞是如何产生的, 癌症专家、微生物学家罗伯特 温伯格说。 但是, 他警告说, 有些人认为,一旦有人找到了病因,治疗方法马上就随之而来了。想想巴斯德吧!他发现了许多种感染的原因,但是五六十年后才找到治疗方法。
今年,患癌症的91万人中,有50%至少可以活5年。国家癌症研究所估计,到2000年,这个比例将上升到75%。在患某些皮肤癌的人中,5年存活率高达90%。但是其他癌症患者中能活5年的人所占比例仍令人沮丧 肺癌为13%,胰腺癌为2%。
因为已发现的癌症种类多达l20种,要找出癌症是如何发生的并不容易。20世纪70年代初,研究人员取得了重大进展。他们发现,致癌基因 诱发癌症的基因 在正常细胞中不活跃。任何因素,包括宇宙射线、辐射、饮食,都可能激活不活跃的致癌基因。但激活的机制尚无人知晓。如果几个致癌基因被激活,细胞无法将其阻断,就发生癌变。
其中确切的机制仍是一个谜,但一种可能性是,许多种癌症是从基因层次开始的,这说明,我们将永远无法防止所有的癌症发生。 进化过程中发生变化是很正常的事, 肿瘤学家威廉 海沃德说。环境因素永远也无法彻底消除;正如海沃德指出的, 我们无法制出药物来防止宇宙射线。
治疗方法前景虽然还很渺茫,但毕竟乐观一些了。
首先,我们必须弄清楚,正常细胞如何自我控制。其次,我们得确定,是不是至少有部分麻烦总是由细胞中数量不多的一些基因所致。如果我们能弄清楚癌症是如何起作用的,我们就可以抑制其活动。
测试题
1.Robert Weinberg warns that the discovery of the causes or cancer cells wont necessarily lead to_______________________.
2.It is not easy to rind out how cancer works because__________________.
3.Once oncogenes in cells are at work.the cell will become_______________________.
4.By saying We cant prepare a medicine against cosmic rays , William Hayward implies that it is impossible to avoid che impact of_______________________.
5.Provided that the mechanisms of cancer are found out we are able to_______________________.
答案详解
1.
根据题干中的Robert Weinberg和causes查找到第1段第2句。
解析:题干warns对应原文cautions,转折词But表明Robert Weinberg认为,这些人的想法是错的,即他并不认为找到了癌症的成因就能很快的找到该癌症的治疗方法。
2.
根据题干中的how cancer works查找到第3段第1句。
解析:原文中的discovering对应题干中的find out,填入的内容需在句首with...中找, because后接完整的从句,因此需补上there are。
3.
根据题干中的oncogenes查找到第3段最后一句。
解析:题干中的are at work和原文中的are driven into action属于同义替换,因此照搬原文becomes后的形容词cancerous即可。
4.
根据题干引号内容查找到第4段最后一句。
解析:原文该句的前一个分句的内容说,环境因素永远无法彻底消除,而接下来海沃德的话也说明这一点。题干中that从句是对该段末句的后一个分句的近义改写。对比原文与题干,可知environmental factors为本题答案。
5.
末段末句。
解析:题干中Provided引导条件句,相当于If;被动句the mechanisms of cancer are found out和原文understand how cancer works表达了相同的意思,在这种假设条件下,原文所说的结果是we can counteract its action,故counteract its action为答案。
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