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根据下列文章,请回答题。Is the News Believable?Unless you have gone through the expedienceyourself.or watched a loved one's struggle,you really have no idea just howdesperate cancer can make you.You pray, you rage。you bargain with God,but mostof all you clutch at any hope,no matter how remote,of a second chance at Life.For a few excited days last week,howeverit seemed as if the whole world was a cancer patient and that all humankind hadbeen granted a reprieve(痛苦减轻).Triggered by a front-page medical news story inthe usually reserved New york Times。all anybody was talking about——on the radio,on television,on the Internet,inphone calls to friends and relatives——was the report that a combination of twonew drugs could,as the Times put it。“cure cancer in two years.”
In a matter of hours patients had jammedtheir doctors。phone lines begging for a chance to test the miracle cancer cure.Cancerscientists raced to the phones to make sure everyone knew about their researchtoo,generating a new round of headlines.
The time certainly seemed ripe for abreakthrough in cancer.Only last month scientists at the National CancerInstitute announced that they were halting a clinical trial of a drug calledtamoxifen(他莫营芬)-and offering it to patients getting the placebo(安慰剂)-because ithad proved SO effective at preventing breast cancer(although it also seemed toincrease the risk of uterine(子宫的)cancer).Two weeks later came the New york Times'report that two new drugs can shrink tumors of every variety without any side effectswhatsoever.
It all seemed too good to be true。and ofcourse it was.There are no miracle cancer drugs,at least not yet.At this stageall the drug manufacturer can offer is some very interesting molecules.and theonly cancers they have cured SO far have been in mice.By the middle of lastweek,even the TV talk.show hosts who taIked most about the news had learnedwhat every scientist already knew:that curing a disease in lab animals is not thesame as doing it in humans.“The history of cancer research has been a historyof curing cancer in the mouse,”Dr.Richard Klausner,head of the National Cancer institute.toldthe Los Angeles times."we have cured mice of cancer for decades—and itsimply didn't work in people.”According to the passage.a person suffering from cancer will A.give up any hop
B.pray for the health of his Loved one
C.goout of his way to help other
D.seize every chance of surviva
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