2.
taking two blood pressure-lowering drugs may
produce _____less risk of secondary strokes than taking only one such drug.
a. three quarters
b.
nearly four tenths
c. one fifth
d.
about one fourteenth
解析:用題干中的關鍵詞taking two
blood pressure-lowering drugs鎖定核心句在第三段,但是四個選項里沒有出現原文中的數字40%和1/3。再看題干中有less…than的比較,
說明答案計算。服用兩種降壓藥繼發中風的危險性可減少到40%;單服一種藥,其危險性則為1/3(33%)。可見服用兩種藥l比服一種藥可減少大約7%,即大約l/14的危險性。(解題時需要把不同的表達方式統一成一種再進行比較)
3
an international six-year study of 6,100 patients directed from sydney
university found that by taking two blood
pressure-lowering drugs, the risk of secondary
strokes can be reduced by up to 40 per cent.
even taking one of the commonly available drugs can cut
the risk by a third,