首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The World’s Best-Selling Medicine Since ancient times, people all over the world have used willow to stop pain. The willow t
The World’s Best-Selling Medicine Since ancient times, people all over the world have used willow to stop pain. The willow t
admin
2013-07-25
268
问题
The World’s Best-Selling Medicine
Since ancient times, people all over the world have used willow to stop pain. The willow tree contains salicylic acid(水杨酸). This stops pain, but there is one problem. Salicylic acid also hurts the stomach. In 1853, a French scientist made a mixture from willow that did not hurt the stomach. However, his mixture was difficult to make, and he did not try to produce or sell it.
In 1897, in Germany, Felix Hoffmann also made a mixture with salicylic acid. He tried it himself first and then gave it to his father because his father was old and in a lot of pain. His father’s pain went away, and the mixture did not hurt his stomach.
Hoffmann worked for Bayer, a German company. He showed his new drug to his manager, who tested the drug and found that it worked well. Bayer decided to make the drug. They called it aspirin and put the Bayer name on every pill.
Aspirin was an immediate success. Almost everyone has pain of some kind, so aspirin answered a true need. Aspirin was cheap, easy to take, and effective. It also lowered fevers. Aspirin was a wonder drug.
At first, Bayer sold the drug through doctors, who then sold it to their patients. In 1915, the company started to sell aspirin in drugstores. In the United States, Bayer had a patent(专利权)on the drug. Other companies could make similar products and sell them in other countries, but only bayer could make and sell aspirin in the United States. In time, Bayer could no longer own the name aspirin in the United States. Other companies could make it there, too. However, Bayer aspirin was the most well known, and for many years, it was the market leader.
By the 1950s, new painkillers were on the market. Aspirin was no longer the only way to treat pain and reduce fever. Bayer and other companies looked fbr other drugs to make. However, in the 1970s they got a surprise. Doctors noticed that patients who were taking aspirin had fewer heart attacks than other people. A British researcher named John Vane found the reason aspirin helped to prevent heart attacks. In 1982, he won the Nobel prize for his research. Doctors started to tell some of their patients to take aspirin every day to prevent heart attacks. It has made life better for the many people who take it. It has also made a lot of money for companies like Bayer that produce and sell it!
Why didn’t the French scientist continue to make the medicine that stopped pain?
选项
A、It didn’t work well.
B、It hurt the stomach.
C、It was not cost-effective.
D、It was hard to make.
答案
D
解析
题意:为什么法国科学家没有继续制造止痛药?因为它很难制作。短文第一段最后两句提到“1853年,法国的一位科学家以柳树为原料制成了一种混合物,这种混合物不伤胃。然而这种混合物很难制造,他没有试着生产和销售”,故选D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/5Tmd777K
本试题收录于:
职称英语卫生类B级题库职称英语分类
0
职称英语卫生类B级
职称英语
相关试题推荐
Usingtheinformationinthetext,completeeachsentence14-18withanexpressionfromthelistbelow.Foreachsentence(14
Readthefollowingpassageandanswerquestions9-18.1.Peoplehavebeenpaintingpicturesforatleast30,000years.Theearli
Lookatthetenstatementsforthispart.Youwillhearapassageabout"AResearchonSleep".Youwilllistentoittwice.
MoniquehasbeeninLondonfor【L5】______days.MoniqueistakingtheEnglishcoursetoimproveher【L6】______Englishandtosee【L7
UNDERTHECITYSTREETSWhileskyscraperofficesandelegantapartmentblocksremainthepublicfaceofmostmajorcities,t
AActionsTakentoHelpBTreatmentofVomitingCTheDifferencebetweenLifeandDeathDMedicalImportanceofFirstAidE
CancerChatisdifferentfromotherforumsinthatCancerHelpUKisawebsitethat
ManyWomenWhoBeatCancerDon’tChangeHabitsManywomenwhobattlebreastcancerwilltellyouit’salife-changingexperience
JapanmadeaproposaltoKoreaforincreasingtradebetweentwocountries.
TheyattemptedtofinishthetaskbeforeJuly.
随机试题
下列著作属于唐代医家所著的是
A、PEG6000B、水C、液状石蜡D、硬脂酸E、石油醚滴丸的非水溶性基质
男性,42岁。上腹隐痛不适,近一个多月来逐渐加重,服用制酸剂后有所改善,食欲尚可,粪便隐血(++),胃肠钡餐摄片见胃小弯水平部黏膜纹理紊乱,胃壁僵直不规则。应考虑的诊断是
判断能力验证样品均匀性的依据是()。
灌溉分水闸施工中人工作业最高处距地面为12m,该作业为()高处作业。
对来自检疫传染病和监测传染病疫区的人员,检疫人员可以根据流行病学和医学检查结果,发给就诊方便卡。( )
有受腐蚀的钢筋混凝土生产用房(X),砖木结构的非生产用房(Y)和砖混结构的非生产用房(Z),其耐用年限由长到短依次为( )。
甲公司持有在境外注册的乙公司100%股权,能够对乙公司的财务和经营政策实施控制。甲公司以人民币为记账本位币,乙公司以港币为记账本位币,发生外币交易时甲公司和乙公司均采用交易日的即期汇率进行折算。(1)2009年10月20日,甲公司以每股2美元的价格购入丙
某区城管局以王小二摆摊卖“煎饼果子”影响环境为由,将其从事经营的小推车等物品扣押。在实施扣押过程中,城管执法人员武某将王小二打伤。对此,下列哪一说法是正确的?
【B1】【B7】
最新回复
(
0
)