2014年全國職稱英語考試衛(wèi)生類C級閱讀理解第三篇原文

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原文來自職稱英語教材閱讀判斷第四篇

第四篇：Some Sleep Drugs Do More Than Make You Sleep

The United States Food and Drug Administration1 has ordered companies to place strong new warnings on thirteen drugs that treat sleep disorders. It also ordered the makers of the sleeping pills to provide information for patients explaining how to safely use the drugs.

Last Wednesday, the FDA announced that some of these drugs can have unexpected and dangerous effects. These include the risk of life-threatening allergic reactions. They also include rare incidents of strange behavior. These include people cooking food, eating and even driving while asleep. The patients later had no memory of doing these activities while asleep.

Last year, a member of the United States Congress2 said he had a sleep-driving incident. Patrick Kennedy, a representative from Rhode Island3，crashed his car into a security barrier near the building where lawmakers meet. The accident happened in the middle of the night and no one was hurt. Mr. Kennedy said he had earlier taken a sleep medicine. He said he was also being treated with a stomach sickness drug that could cause sleepiness.

The Food and Drug Administration did not say in its announcement how many cases of sleep-driving it had documented. However, the New York Times4 reported last year about people who said they had strange sleep events after taking the drug Ambien. Some reported sleep-driving and sleep-walking. Others said they found evidence after waking in the morning that they had cooked food or eaten in their sleep. But they had no memory of carrying out the activities.

A. Food and Drug Administration official says that these serious side effects of sleep disorder drugs appear to be rare. But, he also says there are probably more cases than are reported.5 He says the agency believes the risk of such behaviors could be reduced if people take the drugs as directed and do not drink alcohol while taking the drugs. The Food and Drug Administration has advised drug companies to carry out studies to investigate the problem.

詞匯：

disorder /d?s'??d?/n. 障礙;紊亂;疾病

crash /kræ?/ v.(使)碰撞

allergic /?'l??d??k/ adj. 變應(yīng)性的,過敏性的

lawmaker /'l??me?k?/ n.立法者,立法機關(guān)的成員,議員

incident /'?ns?d(?)nt/n. 偶發(fā)事件,小事件

representative /repr?'zent?t?v/n. 代表

sickness /'s?kn?s/ n.疾病;惡心,嘔吐

stomach /'st?m?k/ n.胃

document /'d?kj?m(?)nt/ vt.記載

sleepiness /'sli?p?n?s/ n.昏昏欲睡

注釋：

1. United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA):美國食品及藥品管理局

2. United States Congress:美國國會

3. Rhode Island:羅得島(美國州名)

4. New York Times:《紐約時報》

5. But, he also said there are probably more cases than are reported.不過,他也說道,可能實際病例要比報道的多。請注意本句中than的用法。than后面連接了一個句子,可是卻沒有主語,學(xué)術(shù)界對此有兩種說法:一種認(rèn)為than是關(guān)系代詞,它本身在從句中作一個句子成分;另一種則認(rèn)為than仍為連接詞,后面省略了句子的部分成分。請看類似的句子：You spent more money than was intended to be spent.你花去的錢比預(yù)計的多。(請比較：You spent the money that was intended.)As the child grows, the jawbones grow also; therefore, there is space for more teeth than are in the first set.隨著孩子的長大,頜骨也隨著長大,因此就有空間供比第一套還要多的牙齒占用。

練習(xí)：

1. There are altogether 13 drugs treating sleep disorders in the United States.