单选题：Once－daily pill could simplify HIV treatment　　Myers Squibb a

　Once－daily pill could simplify HIV treatment
　　Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences have combined many H．I．V．drugs into a single pill Sometimes the best medicine is more than one kind of medicine．Malaria，tuberculosis and H．I．V．/AIDS，2 for example，are all treated with____(1)of drugs．But that can mean a lot of pills to take．It would be____(2)if drug companies combined all the medicines into a single pill，taken just once a day．
　　Now，two companies say they have done that for people just____(3)treatment for H．I．V．，the virus that canses AIDS．The companies are Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences．They haye____(4)a single pill that combines three drugs currently 0/1 the market．3 Bristol—Myers Squibb sells one of them____(5)the name of Sustiva．4 Gilead combined the____(6)，Emtfiva and Viread，into a single．pill in two thousand four．
　　Combining drugs involves more than____(7)issues．It also involves issues of competition____(8)the drugs are made by different companies．The new once—daily pill is the result of____(9)is described as the first joint venture agreement of its kind in the treatment of H．I．V．
　　In January the New England Journal of Medicine5 published a study of the new pill．Researchers compared its____(10)to6 that of the widely use(combination of Sustiva and Combivir.Combivir____(11)two drugs，AZT7 and 3TC．8 The researchers say that after one year of treatment，the new pill suppressed H．I．V．1evels in more patients and with____(12)side effects．9 Gilead paid for the study．Professor Joel Gallant at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore，Maryland，led the research．He is a paid adviser to Gilead and Bristol—Meyers Squibb as well as the maker of Combivir，GlaxoSmithKline．
　　Glaxo Smith Kline reacted____(13)the findings by saying thai：a single study．is of limited value．It says the effectiveness of Combivir has been shown in each of more than fifty studies．
　　The price of the new once—daily pill has not been announced．But Gilead and Bristol—Myers Squibb say they will provide it at reduced cost to developing countries．They plan in the next few months to ask the United States Food and Drug Administrationlo to—(14)the new pill．
　　There are limits to who could take it because of the different drugs it contains．For example，____(15)women are told not to take Sustiva because of the risk of bish disorders．11 Experts say more than forty million people around the world are living with H．I．V．
词汇：
malaria n．疟疾tuberculosis n．结核(病) j(oint adj．联合的，共同的 suppress
vt．抑制
pregnant aaj．妊娠的，有孕的
注释：
1．HIV(human immunodeficieney virus)：人免疫缺陷病毒
2．AIDS(acquired immunodeficiency syndrome)：获得性免疫缺陷综合征，艾滋病
3．(be/7 come)on the market：出售
4．Sustiva以及后面出现的Emtriva、Viread和Combivir都是治疗艾滋病药物的商品名。
5．New England Journal of Medicine：新荚格兰医药杂志。New England是美国东北六州(Maine，Vermont，New Hampshire.Massachusetts，Rhode Island和Connecticut)的总称。
6．英国英语中compare with是“与