单选题 People's attitude toward drugs has become to resemble an emotional roller coaster, careening wildly from dizzy heights of pharmacologic faith to gloomy terror over drug hazards. A host of dreaded killers that had tyrannized the world for centuries can now be cured. That is a cause for some to regard drugs as "miraculous". On the other hand, there are hundreds of pitifully deformed babies born of mothers who had taken thalidomide -- the very thought of them causes terror.
What is the-sensible attitude toward drugs?
I think the first thing to think about is the differences between drugs and wonder drugs. The antibiotics, such as penicillin, can really cure certain bacterial diseases. On the other hand, the major diseases threatening Americans today are cancer, stroke, hypertension, coronary disease, arthritis and psychoses. Against them, the doctor's bag of tricks is limited. He has no wonder drug.
Of course, many patients suffering from these illnesses can be improved by taking drugs and a few can be dramatically helped. But no drug has cured a single case of schizophrenia or rheumatoid arthritis, in the way that penicillin can cure pneumonia or meningococcal meningitis.
So the first important lesson is not to expect too much from drugs. Too many patients exert unholy pressures on doctors to prescribe for every symptom, even when such treatment is unwarranted or dangerous.
Unfortunately, the medical profession is guilty of some complicity here The patient who demands a shot of penicillin for every sniffle and sneeze may be given the injection by a reluctant physician because he is certain that if he does not, the patient will search until he or she finds a doctor who will.
More important, the physician is apt to be a willing collaborator in over-medication because he, too, has been oversold on drugs. He is rarely at a loss for a remedy that might be just what the patient needs. Doctors want their patients to get well. They also derive feelings of power and ego-satisfaction from the ability to pre- scribe the latest drugs.
At the other extreme is the patient who is suspicious of all medications. In the category are the patients who never take an aspirin tablet because they believe that "every aspirin you take leaves a scar on the lining of your stomach".
Without doubt, such ill-advised behavior is at times traceable to lurid accounts of drug dangers. Not long ago, when one antidepressant drug was temporarily withdrawn from the market by the Food and Drug Administration, radio and television stations in New York carried stories about that. Patients were advised by commentators not to take any medication at all. The resulting hysteria in hundreds of patients was as real as it was predictable.

单选题 The author thinks that people's attitude toward drugs resemble a roller coaster because both cases ______.
A. involve exciting experiences B. contain extremities
C. make people either dizzy or faithful D. may result in danger
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】分析推理题。文章第一句话即把人们对待药品的态度比喻成“情感过山车”，然后在后面几句 解释了自己这样说的原因。由该句中的careening wildly from... over drug hazards一句可知，两者的相似之处就在于它们都有极端，因此答案是[B]。[C]中的faithful不对。
单选题 According to the passage, to adopt a correct attitude to drugs, people must ______.
A. understand the limitation of medicine B. be more cautious in taking them
C. strictly follow the doctor's advice D. try hard to work out wonder medicine
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】分析推理题。文章第二段提出了“对待药品的理智态度”这一问题，然后在后文进行了分析，其中第三段至第五段谈论的是第一个方面(the first thing)。由这四段的内容，尤其是第三段中的the doctor's bag of tricks is limited、第五段中的not to expect too much from drugs等可以推知，作者的意思就是要理解药品的疗效是有限的，故选[A]。
单选题 The author implies that good doctors ______.
A. may not always give prescription to every symptom
B. are obliged to meet the needs of their patients
C. can get self satisfaction from their ability to prescribe the latest drugs
D. should feel guilty if they can not solve all the comp}dints of their patients
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】分析推理题。文章第六、七段谈论的是医生的问题。第六段指出一些医生在为一些小病开处方时的无奈(他不开，病人会找别的医生开)；第七段指出，医生在开处方的过程中会得到自我满足感，从而为过度医疗起了推波助澜的作用。由于这两者都是文章所批评的现象，因此反过来可推知作者的意思是一名好的医生不能一味满足病人的要求、对任何病症都开出病人想要的处方，故本题应选[A]。
单选题 It can be learned from the passage that ______.
A. it is wise that the Food and Drug Administration withdrew some drugs from the market
B. it is justified that some people should turn down their doctor's offer of medicine
C. that radio and television stations have not given helpful advice to the public
D. that the best attitude toward drugs is to take the mean between the two extremes
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】分析推理题。文章最后一段涉及的是政府和媒体在引导人们对待药品的态度上所起的作用。其中第二句提到了(美国)食品药品管理局召回某种药品，但作者没有对它的这一行为表示赞同，因此[A]不对；该句后半部分指出广播电台和电视台对此的反应，由其中的stories隐含的贬义及后面两句的意思可知作者对它们的做法是持否定态度的，因此[C]对；[B]和[D]两项在文中都没有体现。
单选题 Which of the following diseases can be treated by antibiotics?
A. Rheumatoid arthritis. B. Sniffle and sneeze.
C. Meninggococcal meningitis. D. Schizophrenia.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】细节题。文章第三段第二句首先指出盘尼西林是一种抗生素及其作用(The antibiotics, such as penicillin,...)，在第四段最后一句指出盘尼西林可以治疗流行性脑膜炎(meninggococcal meningitis)，因此本题答案是[C]。[B]不对，因为在第六段第二句指出病人打喷嚏、流鼻梯等都要求注射盘尼西林，作者对此是持批评态度的，且由常识可知感冒也有不同种类，抗生素对非病毒性感冒(也会引起打喷嚏和流鼻涕)不起作用。[A]、[D]两项则都在第四段第二句中指出无药可治。