2022年6月英语六级听力真题 短文(1)

Researchers have identified a potent new antibiotic compound using artificial intelligence.

研究人员利用人工智能识别出一种有效的新型抗生素化合物。

The antibiotic can kill very dangerous bacteria.

抗生素可以杀死非常危险的细菌。

According to a study published in the journal Cell the compound successfull removed deadly strains of bacteria in mice which are resistant to all known antibiotics.

根据《细胞杂志》上发表的一项研究，这种化合物成功地去除了小鼠体内对所有已知抗生素耐药的致命菌株。

The researchers say this is the first time that artificial intelligence has been used to find a powerful new antibiotic molecule.

研究人员表示，这是第一次使用人工智能来发现一种强大的新型抗生素分子。

Why does this matter?The answer is antibiotic resistance.

为什么这很重要？答案是抗生素耐药性。

This happens when bacteria develop the ability to survive the medications designed to kill them.

当细菌能够在设计用于杀死它们的药物中存活下来时，就会发生这种情况。

Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to health and the problem is growing. This makes finding new antibiotics very important.

抗生素耐药性是对健康的严重威胁，问题日益严重。这使得寻找新的抗生素非常重要。

However,in recent decades, very few have been developed, and those that have tend to be very similar to drugs already available

然而，近几十年来，开发的药物很少，而且这些药物往往与现有药物非常相似

The searches also tend to only focus on a narrow spectrum of chemical compounds, but this is where artificia intelligence comes in.

搜索也往往只关注一个狭窄的化学成分谱，但这正是人工智能的用武之地。

Why? To find new drugs,scientists screen molecules to predict how effective they might be.

为什么？为了寻找新药，科学家们筛选分子，预测其有效性。

Typically,such screening is done by humans in the lab,which is both costly and slow.

通常，这种筛查是由实验室中的人进行的，既昂贵又缓慢。

Artificial intelligence is different.

人工智能则不同。

It’s fast and it can process a high volume

它速度快，处理量大。

It can screen hundreds of milions of compounds to identify a few interesting candidates that require experimental testing.

它可以筛选数以亿计的化合物，以确定一些需要实验测试的有趣候选。

Artificial intelligence is also able to predict if compounds are likely to be toxic.

人工智能还可以预测化合物是否可能有毒。

Some experts assert that this work signifies a paradigm shift in antibiotic discovery.

一些专家断言，这项工作标志着抗生素发现的范式转变。

It could change drug discovery more generally.

它可能会更普遍地改变药物的发现。

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard

问题9至11基于您刚才听到的文章

9.What have researchers done for the first time in history?

9.研究人员有史以来第一次做了什么？

10. What makes it important to find new antibiotic drugs?

10.什么使寻找新的抗生素药物变得重要？

11. What does the passage say artificial intelligence is able to do in antibiotic research?

11.文章说人工智能在抗生素研究中能做什么？

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