本站搜索:
          设为首页       加入收藏           全部考试查看
阅读文章

2008年职称英语考试卫生类教材新增内容一

[日期:2008-01-23] 来源:云南培训认证网  作者: [字体: ]

第二部分  阅读判断

(两篇)

Some sleep drugs do more than make you sleep

The United States Food and Drug Administration1 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 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 Congress2 said he had a sleep-driving incident. Patrick Kennedy, a representative from Rhode Island,3 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 Times4 reported last year about people who said they had strange sleep events after taking the drug Ambien. Some reported sleep-driving and sleep-walking. 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.5 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.

 

词汇:

  disorder n. 障碍;紊乱;疾病

  allergic adj. 变应性的,过敏性的

  incident n. 偶发事件,小事件

  representative n. 代表

  crash v. (使)碰撞

  lawmaker n. 立法者,制定法律者(尤指立法委员或议员)

  sickness n. 疾病;恶心,呕吐

  stomach n. 胃

  sleepiness n. 昏昏欲睡

  document vt. 根据…事实材料制作



[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] 下一页   

阅读:

责任编辑:何老师

【在本站遇到阅读、观看、下载、发表文章等问题   请点此获得帮助 在本站发表文章或者留言    会员登录    会员注册

上一篇:2008年职称英语考试理工类教材新增内容二
下一篇:2008年职称英语考试卫生类教材新增内容二
相关阅读       职称英语卫生类资料 
本文评论       全部评论
发表评论


点评: 字数
姓名:    会员登录    会员注册

  • 本站不会回复评论,咨询请到“在本站发表文章或者留言”处提问
  • 评论字数不要超过500字,请不要发广告
  • 尊重网上道德,遵守中华人民共和国的各项有关法律法规
  • 承担一切因您的行为而直接或间接导致的民事或刑事法律责任
  • 本站管理人员有权保留或删除其管辖留言中的任意内容
  • 本站有权在网站内转载或引用您的评论
  • 参与本评论即表明您已经阅读并接受上述条款