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"I have great confidence that by the end of the decade we’ll know in vast de
"I have great confidence that by the end of the decade we’ll know in vast de
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2023-07-27
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"I have great confidence that by the end of the decade we’ll know in vast detail how cancer cells arise," says microbiologist Robert Weinberg, an export on cancer. "But," he cautious, "Some people have the idea that once one understands the causes, the cure will rapidly follow. Consider Pasteur. He discovered the causes of many kinds of infections, but it was fifty or sixty years before cures were available."
This year, 50 percent of the 910, 000 people who suffer from cancer will survive at least five years. In the year 2000, the National Cancer Institute estimates, that figure will be 75 percent. For some skin cancers, the five-year survival rate is as high as 90 percent. But other survival statistics are still discouraging: 13 percent for lung cancer, and 2 percent for cancer of the pancreas (胰腺).
With as many as 120 varieties in existence, discovering how cancer works is not easy. The researchers made great progress in the early 1970s, when they discovered that oncogenes (致癌基因), which are cancer causing genes (基因), are inactive in normal cells. Anything from cosmic rays to radiation to diet may activate a dormant oneogene, but how remains unknown. If several oncogenes are driven into action, the cell, unable to mm them off, becomes cancerous.
The exact mechanisms involved are still mysterious, but the likelihood that many cancers axe initiated at the level of genes suggests that we will never prevent all cancers. "Changes axe a normal part of the evolutionary process," says oncologist William Hayward. Environmental factors can never be totally eliminated; as Hayward points out, "We can’t prepare a medicine against cosmic rays."
The prospects for cure, though still distant, are brighter. "First, we need to understand how the normal cell controls itself. Second, we have to determine whether there are a bruited number of genes in cells which are always responsible for at least part of the trouble. If we can understand how cancer works, we can counteract its action." [br] Which word can best describe the author’s attitude towards the research of cancer?
选项
A、Indifferent.
B、Negative.
C、Enthusiastic.
D、Confident.
答案
D
解析
四个选项中A冷漠的;D消极的;C热情的;D有信心的。文章倒数第一段提到,“The prospects for cure, though still distant,are brighter.”治愈的前景,虽然还很遥远,但确是有希望的。所以只有D符合题意。
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