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Once-daily pill could simplify HIV treatment

9 \1 }: B) `- O7 k$ W4 WMyers Squibb and Gilead Sciences have combined many H.I.V. drugs into a single pill Sometimes the best medicine is more than one kind of medicine. Malaria, tuberculosis and H.I.V./AIDS,2 for example, are all treated with ____1____ of drugs. But that can mean a lot of pills to take. It would be ____2____ if drug companies combined all the medicines into a single pill, taken just once a day.
* T: c6 _0 `( t) D6 ~- M- FNow, two companies say they have done that for people just ____3____ treatment for H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. The companies are Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences. They have ____4____ a single pill that combines three drugs currently on the market.3 Bristol-Myers Squibb sells one of them ____5____ the name of Sustiva.4 Gilead combined the ____6____, Emtriva and Viread, into a single pill in two thousand four.
Combining drugs involves more than ____7____ issues. It also involves issues of competition ____8____ the drugs are made by different companies. The new once-daily pill is the result of ____9____ is described as the first joint venture agreement of its kind in the treatment of H.I.V.
9 m; }+ a' |" t: v' q; C8 i8 P2 qIn January the New England Journal of Medicine5 published a study of the new pill. Researchers compared its ____10____ to6 that of the widely used combination of Sustiva and Combivir. Combivir ____11____ two drugs, AZT7 and 3TC.8 The researchers say that after one year of treatment, the new pill suppressed H.I.V. levels in more patients and with ____12____ side effects.9 Gilead paid for the study. Professor Joel Gallant at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, led the research. He is a paid adviser to Gilead and Bristol-Meyers Squibb as well as the maker of Combivir, GlaxoSmithKline.
Glaxo Smith Kline reacted ____13____ the findings by saying that a single study is of limited value. It says the effectiveness of Combivir has been shown in each of more than fifty studies.
  J$ X% i5 }* K6 C! [4 T" ~- LThe price of the new once-daily pill has not been announced. But Gilead and Bristol-Myers Squibb say they will provide it at reduced cost to developing countries. They plan in the next few months to ask the United States Food and Drug Administration10 to ____14____ the new pill.
There are limits to who could take it because of the different drugs it contains. For example, ____15____ women are told not to take Sustiva because of the risk of birth disorders.11 Experts say more than forty million people around the world are living with H.I.V.

词汇：
7 i; J2 F! F# ]; i$ [malaria  n. 疟疾
- s! d: Z# f, Z) Y3 ?; {  X8 ftuberculosis  n. 结核（病）
joint  adj. 联合的，共同的
3 Z6 O1 [/ X$ `$ l, \2 [4 psuppress  vt. 抑制来源：中国职称英语考试网
pregnant  adj. 妊娠的，有孕的

注释：
1.  HIV ( human immunodeficiency virus )：人免疫缺陷病毒
' I. J2 Z1 V" R) _4 g8 k! O2.  AIDS ( acquired immunodeficiency syndrome )：获得性免疫缺陷综合征，艾滋病
3.  （be / come）on the market：出售
4.  Sustiva以及后面出现的Emtriva、Viread和Combivir都是治疗艾滋病药物的商品名。
5.  New England Journal of Medicine：新英格兰医药杂志。New England 是美国东北六州( Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island 和 Connecticut )的总称。
6.  英国英语中compare with是“与…相比较”的意思，compare to是“把...比作...” 的意思，但在美国英语中compare to也有compare with的意思，这里就是“把...与…相比较”的意思。  
' U. p& v! l9 R7 u2 c7.  AZT (Azidothymidine )：叠氨胸苷（能抑制引起艾滋病的人免疫缺陷病毒）
2 |( L% C/ W' k/ [6 ?& ?  A8.  3TC：拉夫米定（一种胞嘧啶核苷衍生物，能抑制乙肝病毒和人免疫缺陷病毒的逆转录酶的活性，改善肝脏组织的病变）
9.  side effect：副作用来源：中国职称英语考试网
10.  United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)：美国食品与药品管理局
7 W- E4 ]3 \' x1 R11.  birth disorder：先天性疾病

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1.  A) conservation      B) cooperation      C) combinations     D) considerations  
/ G9 c1 m/ J* L+ M7 v6 f2.  A) simpler          B) more complex    C) more meaningless  D) more troublesome

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3.  A) starting          B) stopping         C) ending           D) discontinuing  
+ {* p, o8 p) B! y4.  A) analyzed         B) examined        C) explored          D) developed  
% w) }% O) V) S& j- f5.  A) before           B) after            C) under            D) above  
1 a( y* i. W2 n; z0 [7 Y4 D# \6.  A) one             B) ones            C) other             D) others  
7.  A) social           B) technical         C) personal          D) historical  
7 @% J- D% `$ L* t6 L* r8.  A) if               B) as if             C) though           D) as though  
9.  A) that             B) which            C) what            D) whatever  
& L/ V3 Z, N* Y2 ^% J' U10.  A) size            B) shape            C) appearance        D) effectiveness  
11.  A) excludes        B) contains           C) looks like        D) tastes of  
5 C0 y7 A, Z2 }# o+ Z12.  A) few            B) fewer             C) many            D) more  
13.  A) for             B) with              C) to               D) into  
. C* o  A5 j+ B14.  A) prove           B) disprove           C) improve          D) approve  
# x# [8 b7 U6 C8 p: q' |+ n2 a  A15.  A) weak            B) strong             C) elder            D) pregnant  
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