2015年职称英语(卫生类)教材完形填空文章练习(3)

　　Onec-daily Pill Could Simplify HIV Treatment

　　Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences have combined many HIV drugs into a single pill. Sometimes the best medicine is more than one kind of medicine. Malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/ ADDS2，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 HIV, 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. Bristol-Myers Squibb sells one of them___5_____the name of Sustiva3. 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 HIV.

　　In January the New England Journal of Medicine4 published a study of the new pill. Researchers compared its______10__to5 that of the widely used combination of Sustiva and Combivir. Combivir_____11___two drugs, AZT6 and 3TC7. The researchers say that after one year of treatment, the new pill suppressed HIV levels in more patients and with___12_____side effects8. 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, Glaxo Smith Kline.

　　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 Administration9 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 disorders10. Experts say more than forty million people around the world are living with HIV.

　　词汇：

　　pill /p?l/ n.药丸

　　simplify /s?mpl?fa?/ vt.简化

　　malaria /m?le?r??/ n.疱疾

　　tuberculosis /tj?,b??kj?l??s?s/ n.结核

　　joint /d???nt/ adj.联合的,共同的

　　virus /va?r?s/ n.病毒

　　venture /vent??/ n.工作项目或事业;企业

　　suppress /s?pres/ vt.抑制

　　approve /?pru?v/ vt.批准

　　pregnant /pregn?nt/ adj.妊娠的，有孕的

　　competition /k?mp?t??n/ n.竞争

　　注释：

　　1.HIV :人体免疫缺陷病毒

　　2.AIDS :获得性免疫缺陷综合症,艾滋病

　　3.Sustiva以后面出现的Emtriva, Viread和Combivir都是治疗艾滋病药物的商品名。

　　4.New England Journal of: 新英格兰医药杂志。New England是美国东北六州的总称。

　　5.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。

　　6.AZT :叠氨胸苷

　　7.3TC:拉夫米定

　　8.side effect:副作用

　　9.United States Food and Drug Administration :美国食品与药品管理局

　　10.birth disorder:先天性疾病

　　练习：

　　1.A. conservation B. cooperation C. combinations D. considerations

　　2.A. simpler B. more complex C. more meaningless D. more troublesome

　　3.A. starting B. stopping C. ending D. discontinuing

　　4.A. analyzed B. examined C. explored D. developed

　　5.A. before B. after C. under D. above

　　6.A. one B. ones C. other D. others

　　7.A. social B. technical C. personal D. historical

　　8.A. if B. as if C. though D. as though

　　9.A. that B. which C. what D. whatever

　　10.A. size B. shape C. appearance D. effectiveness

　　11.A. excludes B. contains C.looks like D. tastes of

　　12.A. few B. fewer C. many D. more

　　13.A. for B. with C. to D. into

　　14.A. prove B. disprove C. improve D. approve

　　15.A. weak B. strong C. elder D. pregnant