Transcript With each succeeding year, more drugs are released, every one

With each succeeding year, more drugs are released, every
one with the hope and the promise that it is an
improvement over its *predecessor. Although the
pharmaceutical industry must be given most of the
**credit for advances in drug therapy, it is also true that
many new drugs have only a marginal ***advance over the
agents they are aimed to replace. The barrage of new
information with which practitioners are ****deluged does
little to provide a clear picture of clinical pharmacology;
on the contrary, to most physicians new drugs are
confusing.
* önceki
**güven, inanç, beğeni, tesir
***a change, discovery, or invention that brings progress
technological/scientific/medical etc advance
****-He was deluged with phone calls from friends and colleagues,
congratulating him.
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With some exceptions, however, the approach to a new
drug should be one of caution. Unless the new agent is
established beyond doubt to be a real advance, it is wiser to
use well-tested and well-established agents which are not
only efficacious but whose safety has been well-established.
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1. “One” in the first sentence refers to
A. improvement
B. person
C. year
D. drug
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2. The writer implies that
A. new drugs should replace the old ones as they are
introduced
B. all the old drugs are efficacious and safe
C. doctors must prefer the drugs which are well-tested and
well-established
D. the new drugs usually have great advance over their
predecessors
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3. Pharmaceutical industry release many drugs
A. which confuse the patients
B. to help patients to cure or treat themselves very quickly
C. that aim to replace even physicians
D. all of which have just minor advantages over the old
ones
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4. What is the topic of the passage?
A. Advances in pharmacology
B. The new drugs
C. Pharmaceutical industry
D. The drugs and physician
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pharmacy(n): plural pharmacies
1. [countable]a shop or a part of a shop where medicines
are prepared and sold
ￚsynonym chemist
-an all-night pharmacy
2. [countable] the place where medicines are prepared in a
hospital
3. [uncountable] the study or practice of preparing drugs
and medicine
pharmacology (n): the scientific study of drugs and medicines
-pharmacologist (n)
-pharmacological (adj)
pharmaceuticals (n): [plural] technical
drugs and medicines
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therapy (n): the treatment of an illness or injury over a
fairly long period of time
-new drug therapies
-radiation therapy for cancer treatment
2. [uncountable]the treatment or examination of someone's
mental problems by talking to them for a long time about
their feelings
ￚsynonym psychotherapy
in therapy
-Rob was in therapy for several years.
-a therapy group
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practitioner (n): 1. someone who works as a doctor or a
lawyer
medical/legal practitioner
-a practitioner of alternative medicine
family practitioner: general practitioner: a doctor who is
trained in general medicine and treats people in a
particular area or town
clinical(adj): 1. relating to treating or testing people who
are sick
-The drug has undergone extensive clinical trials (=tests to
see if it is effective in treating people) .
clinical medicine/experience/training etc (=medicine etc
that deals directly with people, rather than with research
or ideas).
2. relating to a hospital or clinic
-The program gives the students experience in a clinical
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setting.
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caution (n): the quality of being very careful to avoid
danger or risks
-We must proceed with extreme caution .
-The physician must exercise caution when prescribing
anti-depressants.
agent (n): 4. (technical) a chemical or substance that is
used for a particular purpose or that has a particular effect
-Soap is a cleansing agent.
well-established (adj): something that is well-established
has existed for a long time and is respected or trusted by
people
-a well-established scientific theory
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efficacious (adj) (formal): working in the way you intended
synonym: effective
-an equally efficacious method of treatment
-More efficacious treatments may soon be available.
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