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1、2022职称英语卫生A级：阅读理解练习(9)Is the News Believable?Unless you have gone through the experience yourself, or watched a loved ones struggle, you really have no idea just how desperate cancer can make you. You pray, you rage, you bargain with God, but most of all you clutch at any hope, no matter how remote,
2、 of a second chance at life.For a few excited days last week, however, it seemed as if the whole world was a cancer patient and that all humankind had been granted a reprieve（苦痛减轻） . Triggered by a front-page medical news story in the usually reserved New York Times, all anybody was talking about on
3、 the radio, on television, on the Internet, in phone calls to friends and relatives was the report that a combination of two new drugs could , as the Times put it, cure cancer in two years.In a matter of hours patients had jammed their doctors phone lines begging for a chance to test the miracle can
4、cer cure. Cancer scientists raced to the phones to make sure everyone knew about their research too, generating a new round of headlines.The time certainly seemed ripe for a breakthrough in cancer. Only last month scientists at the National Cancer Institute announced that they were halting a clinica
5、l trial of a drug called tamoxifen （他莫昔芬） and offering it to patients getting the placebo（劝慰剂） because it had proved so effective at preventing breast cancer （although it also seemed to increase the risk of uterine（子宫的） cancer）. Two weeks later came the New York Times report that two new drugs could
6、 shrink tumors of every variety without any side effects whatsoever.It all seemed too good to be true, and of course it was. There are no miracle cancer drugs, at least not yet. At this stage all the drug manufactures can offer is some very interesting molecules, and the only cancers they have cured
7、 so far have been in mice. By the middle of last week, even the TV talk-show hosts who talked most about the news had learned what every scientist already knew: that curing a disease in lab animals is not the same as doing it in humans. The history of cancer research has been a history of curing can
8、cer in the mouse, Dr. Richard Klausner, head of the National Cancer Institute, told the Los Angeles Times. We have cured mice of cancer for decadesand it simply didnt work in people.11.According to the passage, a person suffering from cancer willA give up any hope.B pray for the health of his loved
9、ones.C go out of his way to help others.D seize every chance of survival.12 The unprecedented interest in the cure of cancer was aroused byA a nationwide discussion of the topic.B an announcement by the National Cancer Institute.C a report in the New York Times.D a medical news story in the Los Ange
10、les Times.13 According to the New York Times report, a combination of two new drugs couldA reduce the size of all tumors.B prevent breast cancer.C cure various diseases.D prevent uterine cancer.14 In the first sentence of the last paragraph, it was meansA it was true.B it was too good to be true.C i
11、t was a miracle drug.D it was good.15 The history of cancer research has shown thatA miracle cancer drugs often turn up unexpectedly.B the mass media can work wonders.C curing cancers in mice is much easier than in humans.D animals and humans are similar in behaviour. 11. D 12. C 13. A 14. B 15. C本文来源：网络收集与整理，如有侵权，请联系作者删除，谢谢！第3页 共3页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页
