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1、 2022年职称英语考试补全短文习题(十六)2When you eat, your body, takes the sugar from food and turns it into fuel. _(1)_ Your body uses glucose for energy, so it can do everything from breathing air to playing a video game. But glucose cant be used by the body on its ownit needs a hormone called insulin to bring it
2、into the cells of the body. Most people get the insulin they need from the pancreas, a large organ near the stomach. The pancreas makes insulin; insulin brings glucose into the cells; and the body gets the energy it needs. When a person has insulin-dependent diabetes, its because the pancreas is not
3、 making insulin. So someone could be eating lost of food and getting all the glucose he needs, but without insulin, there is no way for the body to use the glucose for energy. _(2)_ You may have heard older people talk about having diabetes, maybe people of your grandparents age. Usually, this is a
4、different kind of diabetes called non-insulin-dependent diabetes. It can also be called Type 2 diabetes, or adult-onset diabetes._(3)_ When a kid diagnosed with juvenile (insulin-dependent) diabetes, he will have that type of diabetes for his whole life. It wont ever change to non-insulin-dependent
5、diabetes when he gets older. Scientists now think that a person who has juvenile diabetes was born with a certain gene or genes that made the person more likely to get the illness. _(4)_ Many scientists believe that along with having certain gees, something else outside the persons body, like a vira
6、l infection, is necessary to set the diabetes in motion by affecting the cells in the pancreas that make insulin. But the person must have the gene (or genes) for diabetes to start out withthis means you cant get diabetes just from catching a flu, virus, or cold. And this type of diabetes isnt cause
7、d by eating too many sugary foods, eight. Diabetes can take a long time to develop in a persons body sometimes months or year. Another important thing to remember is that diabetes is not contagious. _(5)_ A Genes are something that you inherit form your parents, and they are in your body even before
8、 youre born. B This sugar-fuel is called glucose.C It may be possible to beat insulin resistance through lifestyle changes.D You cant catch diabetes from people who have it, no mater how close you sit to them or if you kiss them.E The glucose cant get into the cells of the body without insulin.F When a person has this kind of diabetes, the pancreas usually can still make insulin, but the persons body needs more than the pancreas can make.
