Antibiotic breakthrough, pizza for the homeless 抗生素研究獲新突破、比薩店做慈善

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Antibiotic breakthrough 抗生素研究取得突破性進展

Free pizza for the homeless on your behalf 美國費城比薩店幫顧客獻愛心

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Resistance to antibiotics has been classed by the World Health Organisation as one of the biggest threats to global health. Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in the United States say they’ve now managed to modify one antibiotic which was becoming ineffective against one strain of bacteria. The new version of the drug vancomycin is now so powerful they’ve labelled it as ‘magic’. It’s 1,000 times stronger and works in three different ways, making it much harder for the bacteria to fight back.

世界衛生組織已將人體對抗生素的耐藥性劃分為危害全球健康最嚴重的威脅之一。美國斯克利普斯研究所（Scripps Research Institute）的研究者說，他們已經成功改良瞭一類抗生素使其再次對抗已產生抗藥性的一組細菌。現在，新版萬古黴素藥效極強，科學傢們甚至稱其為“神奇”。新藥的殺菌力是舊版的1000倍，而且它有三種抗菌機制，從而使細菌更難反抗藥物的作用。

Rosa’s Fresh Pizza shop in Philadelphia in the United States offers pizza to customers at a dollar a slice. But you can pay for a slice, leave a post-it note, and that slice will be given free to people in need. Owner Mason Wartman hopes other shops will follow. He says that a little kindness could help people turn their lives around.

美國費城的羅薩新鮮比薩店以每塊一美元的價格向顧客出售比薩。在這裡你還可以提前為需要幫助的人支付一塊比薩的錢，在便利貼上寫下寄語，如此一來，這塊比薩就會被贈送給那位需要幫助的人。店主梅森·沃特曼（Mason Wartman）希望其它店鋪也能效仿他的做法。他說，一點愛心就有可能給他人的生活帶來轉機。

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bacteria
細菌

turn their lives around
使…他們的生活有所改觀

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請從以下詞匯中選擇適當的答案來完成句子。註意：你可能需要改變單詞的時態來完成句子。

bacteria / turn their lives around

1. Sally was a troubled teenager. She ran away from home at 15 but a decade later was taken in by a family in Lisbon who helped her ______ as a young adult.

2. ______ living in the mouths of seals and sea lions can cause a painful and potentially serious condition, with symptoms including cellulitis and debilitating joint inflammation.

答案

1. Sally was a troubled teenager. She ran away from home at 15 but a decade later was taken in by a family in Lisbon who helped her turn her life around as a young adult.

2. Bacteria living in the mouths of seals and sea lions can cause a painful and potentially serious condition, with symptoms including cellulitis and debilitating joint inflammation.