BBC有声新闻听力训练 | 帕金森病可能源于肠胃系统

小白老师说：美国加利福尼亚的科学家称他们的研究让人类对帕金森疾病有了重新的认识，发表在《细胞》上的文章提出大脑紊乱可能是由生活在肠道内的细菌引起的。请听 BBC 的报道。小白老师为大家设计了练习并整理了词汇表，大家可以先听音频，回答问题，然后再看原文。

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1. Which part of the human body does Parkinson’s disease affect?
2. What was introduced to the mice in the experiments?
3. True or false? Sterile mice showed symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in the experiment.
4. Which word in the text means “to cause something to start”?

答 案

1. The brain.
2. Bacteria was put into the mice’s stomachs.
3. False. Only these with bacteria in their stomachs developed symptoms, sterile mice remained health.
4. Activate.

报道原文

In Parkinson’s disease, the brain is progressively damaged, causing people to experience tremors and difficulty moving.

The researchers use mice genetically programmed to develop Parkinson’s, but only those with bacteria in their stomachs developed symptoms, sterile mice remained healthy. Further tests show transplanting bacteria from Parkinson’s patients led to more symptoms than bacteria from healthy people.

The California Institute of Technology says the findings mark a paradigm shift in the understanding of the disease. It’s thought some bacteria release chemicals that over activate parts of the brain leading to damage. And that drugs that act on gut bugs or probiotics could become new treatments.

The charity Parkinson’s UK said there’s still a long way to go, but the work opened an exciting new avenue of research.

词汇表

1. progressively 逐步地
2. tremors 颤抖，震颤
3. genetically programmed 基因设定成的
4. sterile 无菌的
5. paradigm shift （思维认知的）彻底转变
6. probiotics 益生菌
7. new avenue 新的渠道，新的途径