2015考研英语阅读集中练：Combating addiction

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考研英语阅读水平的提高重在练习，多练才能够增加词汇量，提升对语法语义的把握，才能够更容易的理解和总结文章中心主旨。正所谓熟能生巧，就是这个道理。十一刚过，后续复习任务依然很重，新东方在线小编希望考生能够继续努力，多读多练。下面分享英语阅读集中练篇章，望考生认真阅读。
    2015考研英语阅读集中练：Combating addiction
   
    THE idea of vaccinating drug addicts against their affliction is an
intriguing one.
    In principle, it should not be too hard.
    The immune system works, in part, by making antibodies that are specific to
particularsorts of hostile molecule.Such antibodies recognise and attach
themselves to these molecules, rendering themharmless.
    Vaccines work by presenting the immune system with novel targets, so that
it can learn toreact to them if it comes across them again.
    The problem is that the molecules antibodies recognise and react to are the
big ones, suchas proteins, that are characteristic of bacteria, viruses and
other infectious agents.
    Small molecules, such as drugs, go unnoticed.But not for much longer, if
Kim Janda of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego has hisway.
    In a paper just published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society,
Dr Janda and hiscolleagues suggest how a vaccine against methamphetamine, a
popular street drug, mightbe made.
    If their method works, it would open the possibility of vaccinating people
against other drugs,too.
    The idea of a methamphetamine vaccine is not new.The problem is getting the
immune system to pay attention to a molecule that is such asmall target.The way
that has been tried in the past is to build the vaccine from several
components.
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