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Better Control of TB Seen if a Faster Cure Is Found
The World Health Organizationl estimates that about one-third of all people are infected with bacteria that cause tuberculosis. Most times, the infection remains inactive. But each year about eight million people develop active cases of TB, usually in their lungs. Two million people die of it.
The disease has increased with the spread of AIDS and drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis.
Current treatments take at least six months. Patients have to take a combination of several antibiotic drugs daily. But many people stop as soon as they feel better. Doing that can lead to an infection that resists treatment. Public health experts agree that a faster-acting cure for tuberculosis would be more effective. Now a study estimates just how effective it might be. A professor of international health at Harvard University led the study. Joshua Salomon says a shorter treatment program would likely mean not just more patients cured. It would also mean fewer infectious
patients who can pass on their infection to others.
The researchers developed a mathematical model to examine the effects of a two-month treatment plan. They tested the model with current TB conditions in Southeast Asia. The scientists found that a two-month treatment could prevent about twenty percent of new cases. And it might prevent about twenty-five percent of TB deaths. The model shows that these reductions would take place between two thousand twelve and two thousand thirty. That is, if a faster cure is developed and in wide use by two thousand twelve.
The World Health Organization developed the DOTS program in 1990. DOTS is Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course. Health workers watch tuberculosis patients take their daily pills to make sure they continue treatment.
Earlier this year, an international partnership of organizations announced a plan to expand the DOTS program. The ten-year plan also aims to finance research into new TB drugs. The four most common drugs used now are more than forty years old. The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development says its long-term goal is a treatment that could work in as few as ten doses.
31. Each year, about __________ people die of TB, according to the World Health Organization.
A. one-third of all
B. eight million
C. two million
D. one million
32. The mathematical model tested in Southeast Asia shows that a faster cure is developed and in wide use as early as the year of __________.
A.1990
B.2020
C.2030
D.2012
33. Now there are __________ most common drugs being used for more than forty years.
A. one
B. two
C. three
D. four
34. Which of the following statements in NOT right in Paragraph 2?
A. Current treatments of TB take at least six months.
B. Shorter treatment program would likely mean more patients cured, and fewer infectious patients.
C. The patients have to take a combination of several antibiotic drugs daily.
D. The patients should stop taking antibiotic drugs as soon as they feel better.
35. The long-term goal of the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development is a treatment that could work
A. in half a year
B. in two months
C. in ten doses
D. in ten days
【答案與解析】
31.C。細節題。題幹：根據世界衛生組織，每年約有__________人死於TB。利用題幹關鍵詞和world Health Organization可以定位到第一段“But each year about eight million people develop active cases ofTB。usually in their million people die ofit”，可知每年約有800萬人感染TB，200萬人因此喪命，所以該題答案為C(200萬)。
32.D。細節題。題幹：南亞被檢驗的數學模型表明最早在——年將有較快的治癒率和廣泛的應用。利用題幹關鍵詞south Aisa，faster cure和wide use可以定位到第三段的尾句，可知該模型如果在2012年有較快的治癒率和廣泛的應用，那麼在2012到2030年之間就會有減少，可知本題答案為D(2012年)。
33.D。細節題。題幹：現在有——種常見藥已經使用了40多年。利用題幹關鍵詞common drugs和forty years可以定位到最後一段“The four most common drugs used now are more than forty years old”，可知有四種常見藥已經使用了40多年了，故D(四種)為正確答案。
34.D。細節題。題幹：根據第二段，下列哪項是不正確的'?根據第二段第一句可知目前治療TB需要至少6個月，所以選項A是正確的;根據第二段的第二句可知病人需要每天同時服用好幾種抗生素，所以選項C是正確的;根據第二段的第三句和第四句可知，許多病人在感覺好點後就停止服藥，這會導致抵抗治療效果的感染，所以選項D(病人在感覺好點後應該停止服藥)是錯誤的：根據第二段的最後兩句可知，短期治療專案意味著有更多病人被治癒，也意味著被感染的病人較少地將TB傳染給其他人。因此，本題答案為D。
35.C。細節題。題幹：TB全球聯合會的長期目標是一種__________ 治療。利用題幹關鍵詞long-term goal和Global Alliance for TB Drug Development可以定位到最後一段的最後一句，可知該組織的長期目標是找到一種治療方法，通過十次劑量就有效，故本題答案為C(十次的劑量)。
