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  3. The first sentence "Like every dog, every disease now seems to have its day". means ______. Which of the following best defines

The first sentence "Like every dog, every disease now seems to have its day". means ______. Which of the following best defines

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问题 The first sentence "Like every dog, every disease now seems to have its day". means ______.
Which of the following best defines the word "upshot" (Line 5, Paragraph 5)?
选项 A、Outcome.
B、Uphold.
C、Achievement.
D、Project.
答案A
解析 第五段最后三句：However，some anti-TB drugs interfere with the effect of some anti-HIV drugs．Conversely，in about 20％ of cases where a patient has both diseases，anti-HIV drugs make the tuberculosis worse. The upshot is that 125 years after human beings worked out what caused TB，it is still a serious threat．本题在考查考生词汇知识的同时，也考查大家对全文结尾处语言逻辑关系的理解。全文倒数第三句和前文是转折关系；倒数第二句话和倒数第三句是对比关系；最后一句和其前面两个句子之间的关系恰恰是本题的关键所在。根据句意"然而，一些抗肺结核药物会对某些抗HIV药物的功能产生影响。相反，那些同时患有肺结核病和艾滋病的病人中，有20％的案例是抗HIV药物加剧了肺结核病的病情。从人们发现肺结核病的起因到现在已经有125年了，但这种疾病至今仍严重地威胁着人类的健康"。我们可以判断出最后一句和其前文为因果关系。并且字典中对upshot解释为the final result，所以选Outcome。注意：此题虽然看似不难，但此类型题是将两种出题思路结合在一起，换在其他文章中，可能难度会很大，要小心作答。achievement有两个主要意思，其一为action of achieving"完成，达到"，其二为"成绩，成就"，如scientific achievement科学成就。achievement与outcome相比，常表示一种好的结果。outcome作为一种结果比result要强烈，表示最终结果或原因，作用了较长一段时间以后的结果。B和D不合文意，错误。
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