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  3. Some sleep drugs do more than make you sleep The United States Food and Drug Administration (美国食品及药品管理局) has ordered compani

Some sleep drugs do more than make you sleep The United States Food and Drug Administration (美国食品及药品管理局) has ordered compani

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问题                 Some sleep drugs do more than make you sleep
    The United States Food and Drug Administration (美国食品及药品管理局) 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 (过敏性的) 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 Congress said he had a sleep-driving incident. Patrick Kennedy, a representative from Rhode Island, 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 can cause sleepiness.
    The Food and Drug Administration did not say in its announcement how many cases of sleep driving it has documented. However, the New York Times reported last year about people who said they had strange sleep events after taking the drug Ambien. Some reported sleep-driving and sleepwalking. 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 said there are probably more cases than are reported. He said 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.  
FDA considers it the producers’ duty to warn the users of sleeping pills about the serious side effects and to tell them how to use safely.
选项 A、Right
B、Wrong
C、Not mentioned
答案A
解析 利用问题句中的特征词FDA和细节信息词producers，side effects共同作为答案线索，在文章中查找答案相关句：The United States Food and Drug Administrationl 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．FDA命令制药商贴新警告语并指导病人如何安全用药，自然就认为这是制药商不可推卸的责任。
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