Experts excited by new brain disease drug 治脑疾病的新药令专家兴奋不已_BBC

ambitious aim 雄心勃勃的目标

Alzheimer’s 阿尔茨海默病

Huntington’s 亨廷顿氏舞蹈症、慢性进行性舞蹈病

Parkinson’s 帕金森氏病

compound 化合物

toxic 有毒的

antidepressant 抗抑郁药

clinical trials 临床试验

测验请听报道并回答下列问题。

1. Do brain cells make their own proteins?

2. What can neurodegenerative diseases do to our brain?

3. True or false? Drugs used in tests carried out four years ago (2017) were unsuitable for humans.

4. Which phrase in the text means ‘changes to weather over a long period of time’?

答案 1.Do brain cells make their own proteins?

Yes, the brain cells are able to make their own proteins.

2. What can neurodegenerative diseases do to our brain?

These diseases can cause brain cells to stop making proteins and then starve. If the brain cells die, we lose brain functions.

3. True or false? Drugs used in tests carried out four years ago (2017) were unsuitable for humans.

True. Drug tests previously were done on mice and the compound used would have been toxic to humans.

4. Which word in the text means ‘it might be possible’?

Potentially.

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