1. 阅读课文并回答问题。
1. Why won't doctors give you antibiotics if your illness is not very serious?
2. How does Professor Peter Taylor describe the weakness in antibiotics?
3. True or false? Alexander Fleming expected the fungus to kill bacteria when he returned to his laboratory.
4. How much safer has childbirth become in the last few decades?
5. Which two words in the text include prefixes meaning "very small"?
2. 请你在不参考课文的情况下完成下列练习。选择一个意思合适的单词填入句子的空格处。
1. My brother is going to university. He wants to study __________.
bacteriologist pharmaceutical pharmacy a course of antibiotics
2. I've got a bad rash on my elbow. The doctor will give me a __________ for a very effective ointment.
antibiotic Petri dish mould prescription
3. In the past it was very difficult to cure __________.
childbirth penicillin STIs labour
4. The doctor told me he has to operate on me tomorrow. That's the only way to treat my illness - there's no __________.
availability Achilles heel resistance alternative
5. Mark spent his first year at university partying and having fun. If he wants to get a diploma he has to __________ and study more.
up his game be my game game up win the game

1. 阅读课文并回答问题。
1. Why won't doctors give you antibiotics if your illness is not very serious?
Because the constant use of antibiotics make bacteria develop a resistance to them.
2. How does Professor Peter Taylor describe the weakness in antibiotics?
He says they have an "Achilles heel".
3. True or false? Alexander Fleming expected the fungus to kill bacteria when he returned to his laboratory.
False. He discovered the bacteria-killing power of the fungus by chance.
4. How much safer has childbirth become in the last few decades?
The risk of a woman dying in England and Wales during childbirth is between 40 and 50 times lower than 60 years ago.
5.Which two words in the text include prefixes meaning "very small"?
MICRObiologist, NANOtechnology.
2. 请你在不参考课文的情况下完成下列练习。选择一个意思合适的单词填入句子的空格处。
1. My brother is going to university. He wants to study pharmacy.
2. I've got a bad rash on my elbow. The doctor will give me a prescription for a very effective ointment.
3. In the past it was very difficult to cure STIs.
4. The doctor told me he has to operate on me tomorrow. That's the only way to treat my illness - there's no alternative.
5. Mark spent his first year at university partying and having fun. If he wants to get a diploma he has to up his game and study more.