2010年度职称英语等级考试卫生类完型填空共15篇1.docVIP

阅读下面的短文。短文中有15个空白，在文章的后面，每一个空白都列出了四个备选答案。请根据文章的内容选择合适的词或短语填在空白处。Better Control of TB seen if a faster cure is found The World Health Organization1 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 ____1____. Two million people die ____2____ it. The disease has ____3____ with the spread of AIDS and drug－resistant forms of tuberculosis. Current treatments take at least six months. Patients have to ____4____ a combination of several antibiotic drugs daily. But many people stop ____5____ they feel better. Doing that can ____6____ 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 ____7____ it might be. A professor of international health at Harvard University2 led the study. Joshua Salomon says a shorter treatment program would likely mean not just more patients ____8____. It would also mean ____9____ 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 ____10____ 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 ____11____ about twenty－five percent of TB deaths. The model shows that these ____12____ 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 ____13____ the DOTS3 program in nineteen ninety. DOTS is Directly Observed Treatment， Short－course. Health workers watch tuberculosis patients take their daily pills to make ____14____ they continue treatment. Earlier this year， an international partnership of organizations ann