广东省2014届高三英语二轮专题精品卷:阅读理解(10)
II. 阅读(共两小节,满分50分)
第一节阅读理解(共20小题,每小题2分,满分40分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A,B,C和D中,选出最佳选项。
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LONDON (Reuters) — Children are dying for lack of drugs tailored to their needs, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which launched a global campaign on Thursday to promote more research into child medicine.
More than half of the drugs currently used to treat children in the industrialized world have not been specifically tested on youngsters.
The problem is even worse in developing countries where price remains a major barrier and 6 million children die each year from treatable conditions.
In the case of HIV/AIDS, the few existing pediatric therapies(儿科的疗法)developed for children generally cost three times more than adult ones.