Mice Cured of Cancer with Trojan-horse Method 抗癌新招：特洛伊疗法
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- 发布于 2013年3月23日
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Mice with prostate cancer have been completely cured by researchers in the United Kingdom with a new “Trojan-horse” cancer therapy, but human tests are still needed.
英国的研究员以一种新的「特洛伊木马」疗法，完全治愈有前列腺的老鼠，但仍需进行人体实验。
The scientists used a cancer-killing virus that they injected into the mice to eliminate the cancer. The team of researchers first drew blood from the mice and separated the white blood cells. These cells, which attack foreign objects in the body, were infused with the virus. The white blood cells were then put inside the mice’s tumors. Once inside, the virus began to reproduce and explode in number before attacking the tumor. This led to the name “Trojan-horse” which comes from the similarity to how the ancient Greeks hid inside a wooden horse to defeat the state of Troy.
这些科学家使用一种能杀死癌细胞的病毒，注射入老鼠体内以消除癌症。此研究团队先抽出老鼠的血液，并分离出白血球。这些会攻击体内外来物体的细胞被注入病毒，再被放进老鼠的肿瘤中；病毒进入后便开始繁殖倍增，再攻击肿瘤。此疗法和古希腊人藏匿于一座木马中以击败特洛依城有异曲同工之妙，因而得到「特洛伊木马」之名。
The entire experiment took 40 days to complete and at the end, all mice that received treatment lived and had all their tumors eradicated. Despite the promising results, researchers cautioned that treatments which have been successful in mice do not always produce the same results in humans. They said they hope to begin human trials later this year.
本实验费时40天完成，最后所有接受治疗的老鼠均存活且根除肿瘤。尽管有令人振奋的研究结果，但研究员提醒：在老鼠身上的成功治疗并不总是能在人体产生相同的结果。他们表示希望接下来能在今年开始进行人体测试。
－by Bryan Shettig
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Vocabulary
prostate [ˋprɑs͵tet] n & adj. 前列腺（的）
therapy [ˋθɛrəpɪ] n. 治疗，疗法
virus [ˋvaɪrəs] n. 病毒
inject [ɪnˋdʒɛkt] v. 注射
eliminate [ɪˋlɪmə͵net] v. 消除
infuse [ɪnˋfjuz] v. 注入
tumor [ˋtjumɚ] n. 肿瘤
reproduce [͵riprəˋdjus] v. 繁殖，生殖
treatment [ˋtritmənt] n. 治疗
eradicate [ɪˋrædɪ͵ket] v. 根绝；消灭
promising [ˋprɑmɪsɪŋ] adj. 有希望的，有前途的
Reading Comprehension
1. What is the passage mainly about?
(A) A horse that carries a deadly virus.
(B) Why mice often have cancer.
(C) A new technique to cure cancer.
(D) How cancer takes 40 days to form.
2. How does the new therapy work?
(A) The mice take special pills.
(B) A virus attacks the tumors.
(C) The mice live around the horses.
(D) A virus kills all white blood cells.
3. What do the scientists warn about?
(A) The method might not work on people.
(B) The mice will feel sick again very soon.
(C) The method only cures one type of cancer.
(D) The mice will inject cancer cells in people.
Answer
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1. ( C ) |
2. ( B ) |
3. ( A ) |
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