TheSearchfortheAnti-_agingPill的单词分析(详细).docVIP

READING PASSAGE 3 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions —2840, which are based on Reading Passage 3 The Search for the Anti- aging·Pill In government laboratories and elsewhere, scientists are seeking a drug able to prolong life and youthful vigor ．Studies of caloric restriction are showing the way. As researchers on aging noted recently, no treatment on the market today has been proved to slow human aging— the build-up of molecular1 and cellular 2 damage that increases vulnerability 3 to infirmity as we grow older． But one intervention 4， consumption5 of a low-calorie*yet nutritionally 6balanced diet． works incredibly well in a broad range of animals，increasing longevity 7 and prolonging good health．Those findings suggest that caloric restriction 8 could delay aging and increase longevity in humans, too． Unfortunately, for maximum benefit ，people would probably have to reduce their caloric intake by roughly thirty per cent ，equivalent9 to dropping from 2,500 calories a day to l,750．Few mortals10 could stick to that harsh a regimen11，especially for years on end．But what if someone could create a pill effects of eating less without actually forcing  that mimicked 12 the physiological people to eat less? Could such a‘caloric-restriction mimetic 13’，as we call it ，enable people to stay healthy longer , postponing14 age-related disorders(such asdiabetes15， arteriosclerosis16，heart disease and cancer)until very late in life? Scientists first posed this question in the mid-1 990s． after researchers came upon a chemical agent that inrodents17 １ adj. [ 化学 ] 分子的；由分子组成的 2 n. 移动电话；单元 adj. 细胞的；多孔的；由细胞组成的3 n. 易损性；弱点 4 n. 介入； 调停；妨碍 5 n. 消费；消耗；肺痨 6 adv. 滋养地 7 n. 长寿，长命；寿命 8 n. 限制；约束；束缚 9 n. 等价物，相等物 adj. 等价的，相等的；同意义的 10 adj. 凡人的；致死的；终有一死的；不共戴天的 n. 人类，凡人 11 n. [ 医] 养生法；生活规则；政 体；支配 12 v. 模仿（活象） 13 adj. 模仿的；拟态的；类似的 14 n. 推迟 15 n. 糖尿病；多尿症 16 动脉硬化 17 n. 啮齿动物 seemed to reproduce many of caloric restrictions benefits． No compound that would safely achieve