2009年职称英语教材阅读理解新增部分(卫生类)

　　答案与题解：

　　1.B 短文的第二段明确说明Cancer Chat与众不同之处，即it has an information safety net。可见，它的信息来源是安全可靠的。

　　2.D短文的第五段说Rebekah Gibbs的日记是public，而不是private。

　　3.B短文的第四、六段分别提到了第一、三、四项，因此正确答案只能选B。

　　4.D短文的倒数第二、三段分别提到了前三项，因此正确答案只能选D。

　　5.A显然，the charity指的是Cancer Research UK这一慈善机构。

　　Medicine Award Kicks off Nobel Prize Announcements

　　Two scientists who have won praise for research into the growth of cancer cells could be candidates for the Nobel Prize in medicine when the 2008 winners are presented on Monday, kicking off six days of Nobel announcements.

　　Australian-born U. S. citizen Elizabeth Blackburn and American Carol Greider have already won a series of medical honors for their enzyme research and experts say they could be among the front-runners for a Nobel.

　　Only seven women have won' the medicine prize since the first Nobel Prizes were handed out in 1901. The last female winner was U. S. researcher Linda Buck in 2004, who shared the prize with Richard Axel.

　　Among the pair's possible rivals are Frenchman Pierre Chambon and Americans Ronald Evans and Elwood Jensen, who opened up the field of studying proteins called nuclear hormone receptors.

　　As usual, the award committee is giving no hints about who is in the running before presenting its decision in a news conference at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute.

　　Alfred Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, established the prizes in his will in the categories of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace. The economics prize is technically not a Nobel but a 1968 creation of Sweden's central bank.

　　Nobel left few instructions on how to select-winners, but medicine winners are typically

　　awarded for a specific breakthrough rather than a body of research.

　　Hans Jornvall, secretary of the medicine prize committee, said the 10 million kronor (US$1.3 million) prize encourages groundbreaking research but he did not think winning it was the primary goal for scientists.

　　"Individual researchers probably don't look at themselves as potential Nobel Prize winners when they're at work," Jornvall told The Associated Press. "They get their kicks from their research and their interest in how life functions. "

　　In 2006, Blackburn, of the University of California, "San Francisco, and Greider, of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, shared the Lasker prize for basic medical research with Jack Szostak of Harvard Medical School. Their work set the stage for7 research suggesting that cancer

　　cells use telomerase to sustain their uncontrolled growth

　　词汇:

　　Enzyme n.酶 krona n. 瑞典克朗

　　Receptor n.受体 kronor krona的复数形式

　　Dynamite n.甘油炸药 telomerase n.端粒酶

　　注释：

　　1.kicking off：开始(某种)活动

　　2.handed out：分发

　　3.nuclear hormone receptors：核激素受体

　　4.a news conference：记者招待会。

　　5.a body of：一批

　　6.The Associated Press：美联社

　　7.set the stage for：为……打好基础