Alzheimer's Telltale Protein: Multiple Choice Grammar Test
A discovery concerning Alzheimer's disease announced last week could (1) _________ a simple and accurate skin test for living patients. The finding may also lead to new (2) _________ an incurable illness (3) _________ to afflict up to 4 million Americans.
Just how Alzheimer's (4) _________ the brain isn't understood, but a protein molecule is thought (5) _________ . Dr Dennis Selkoe and colleagues at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found the protein in the skin of 8 out of 11 people with Alzheimer's disease who (6) _________ . Dr Selkoe's test must (7) _________ by other laboratories and made easy to do on a large scale. But he is optimistic that a reliable skin test may be only two or three years away.
The finding suggests a fresh strategy for attacking the disease. Scientists (8) _________ to perfect drugs capable (9) _________ repairing the damage Alzheimer's does to the brain.
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A | B | C | D | |
1 | result in | result from | be resulted from | be resulted at |
2 | treatment against | treatment for | treating | treatment from |
3 | believing | belief | believed | is believed |
4 | ravaged | is ravaged | is ravaging | ravages |
5 | to involve | involved | to be involving | to be involved |
6 | had been dying | died | had died | has died |
7 | to be confirmed | be confirmed | confirm | being confirmed |
8 | have been trying | have been tried | have trying | trying |
9 | about | of | at | in |
1.A; 2.B; 3.C; 4.D; 5.D; 6.C; 7.B; 8.A; 9.B