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高三英语培优外刊阅读

外刊精选｜医学前沿：癌症存活率正稳步提升

此次疫情极大提升了公众对医疗健康话题的关注。不过除了突发性的公共卫生事件，日常生活中的医学进展也值得我们关注。例如，最近几年美国的癌症死亡率就有了大幅下降。这样的进步是如何实现的？

CancerDeathRateinU.S.SeesSharpestOne-YearDrop

ByKnvulSheikh

ThecancerdeathrateintheUnitedStatesfell2.2percentfrom2016to2017—thelargestsingle-yeardeclineincancermortalityeverreported,theAmericanCancerSocietyreportedonWednesday.Since1991theratehasdropped29percent,whichtranslatestoapproximately2.9millionfewercancerdeathsthanwouldhaveoccurredifthemortalityratehadremainedconstant.

Expertsattributedthedeclinetothereducedsmokingratesandtoadvancesinlungcancertreatment.Newtherapiesformelanomaoftheskinhavealsohelpedextendlifeformanypeoplewithmetastaticdisease,orcancerthathasspreadtootherpartsofthebody.

Butnotallpopulationsbenefitfrompreventionandadvancesincancertreatment.Althoughracialdisparitiesincancercarearenarrowing,theAmericanCancerSocietyreportfoundthatblackmenwerestilltwiceaslikelytodieofcancerasAsian/PacificIslandermenand20percentmorelikelytodiethanwhitemen.

Ensuringequalaccesstoknowncancerpreventionandearlydetectionmethodswouldgofartoacceleratetheprogressagainstoverallcancer.

【词汇过关】

请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。

1.see[si?]vt._________________________________

2.sharp[?ɑ?p]adj._________________________________

3.single-yearadj._________________________________

4.mortality[m???t?l?ti]n._________________________________

5.translate[tr?ns?le?t]vi._________________________________

6.therapy[?θer?pi]n._________________________________

7.melanoma[?mel??n??m?]n._________________________________

8.metastatic[?met??st?t?k]adj._________________________________

9.narrow[?n?r??]vi._________________________________

【词块学习】

请从文章中找到下面中文相对应的文词块。

1.将某事归因于某事/某人_________________________________

2.种族差异_____________________