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1. Antibiotics are drugs that cure diseases and prevent infections by inhibiting the growth of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (細菌) and fungi (真菌) or killing them. However, antibiotics is not effective against viral (病毒性) infections like the flu.

4. Antibiotics are commonly administered to livestock (牲畜) to prevent diseases from spreading on densely populated farms, which has recently drawn public concern about food safety. To improve the situation, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (丹麥) has set a target of producing 1.5 million pigs without antibiotics by 2021.

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2. Scientists from _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (澳洲) have recently discovered an antimicrobial (抗菌的) protein in platypus (鴨嘴獸) milk which may give hints about how to tackle the problem of drug resistant "superbugs" (「超級細菌」).

3. Alexander _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (弗萊明) was awarded a Nobel Prize for discovering penicillin (盤尼西林).

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■Glossary

inhibit (v) 抑制

protein (n) 蛋白質

tackle (v) 處理

resistant (adj) 抵抗…的

[Smarties' Power English 第215期]