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3.1 “OK”是从哪里来的Millions of people all over the world use the word OK. In fact, some people say the word is used more often than any other word in the world. OK means all right or acceptable. It expresses agreement or approval. You might ask your brother, Is it okay if I borrow your car? Or if someone asks you to do something, you might say, Okay, I will. Still, language experts do not agree about where the word came from.Some people say it came from the Native American Indian tribe known as the Choctaw(乔克托语). The Choctaw word okeh means the same as the American word okay. Experts say early explorers in the American West spoke the Choctaw language in the nineteenth century. The language spread across the country.世界各地数百万人使用OK这个词。实际上，有人说这个词的使用频率远远高于其他词语。OK的意思是好的或者可以接受，表示同意或赞成。你可以问你哥哥，“我可以借你的车吗？”或者如果有人让你做某事，你可以说“好的，我会的。”然而，语言专家在这个词的来源方面却有着不同的意见。3.2 怎样识别假药We talked last week about counterfeit(假冒的) medicines and how the problem is especially bad in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The World Health Organization says up to thirty percent of the medicine sold in many developing countries is not real.It also estimates that up to fifty percent of the medicine sold on the Internet is counterfeit. That can put people at risk even in wealthy countries that represent only a small part of the counterfeit drug market.Today we look at what is being done to fight counterfeit drugs.Several companies are developing ways to make counterfeits easier to identify. And there are existing methods, like a machine that can quickly identify chemicals in pills to confirm if the pills are real.上周，我们讲述了假药的问题，这个问题在非洲，亚洲和拉丁美洲尤为严重。世界卫生组织表示，许多发展中国家出售的高达30%的药物是假药。世卫组织还估计，互联网上出售的高达50%的药物是假药。即使在发达国家假药仅占一小部分，也足以给人们带来危险。今天，我们将看一下为了打击假冒药品采取了哪些措施。一些制药公司采取了一些方法，使假药更容易识别。还有一些现存的方法，例如，一种机器可以迅速分析药品中的化学成分，以确认其真实性。3.3 大豆基因图谱出炉Soybeans are eaten by people and fed to animals. Some farmers grow them to replace lost nitrogen(氮) in the soil.Soybeans were first grown in Asia thousands of years ago. Now scientists have a fu