单选题 Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following announcement. At the end of the announcement, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
Now, listen to the announcement.
单选题 Aspirin is a common treatment for all the following EXCEPT______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[听力原文] 11-13
Aspirin is one of the world's oldest,least costly and most widely used drugs.It makes people feel better.[11] It is a common treatment for headaches,colds and flu.It also reduces other kinds of pain,such as pain in bone joints
A drug like aspirin is said to have been used in ancient Greece.More than 2400years ago,Hippocrates told his patients to ease pain by chewing the outer covering of the willow tree.The coveting,called bark,contains the chemical salicylic acid
In the 1700s,people used willow bark to reduce a sick person's high body temperature.[12] In 1860,researchers at the Bayer Company in Germany copied the salicylic acid found in willow bark.They created aspirin.Aspirin first was made into its present pill form about 100 years ago.
[13] In 1982,British scientist Sir John Vane shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in part for discovering how aspirin works.He found that aspirin blocks the body from making natural substances,some of which cause pain and the expansion of damaged tissue.
[考点] 本题出题点在列举处。
[精析] 短文提到,阿司匹林可用于治疗头痛和感冒,还可缓解其他疼痛,并未提到可以治疗咳嗽,故选C。
单选题 Researchers in______copied the salicylic acid and created aspirin.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[考点] 本题出题点在专有名词处(国家名)。
[精析] 短文提到,1860年德国科学家复制了柳树皮中的柳酸,研制出了阿司匹林,故选C。
单选题 Scientist Sir John Vane shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine partly because______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[考点] 本题出题点在因果关系处(for)。
[精析] 短文提到,在1982年科学家约翰·文爵士获得了诺贝尔医学奖,部分原因是他发现了阿司匹林的药理,故选D。