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C Criminals use the same passage to smuggle drugs and small arms.

D where there are drugs, there are small arms.

55. The best title for this passage is ____

A Small Arms Talks, Not Nuclear Arms Talks.

B Neglect of Small Arms Control

C Global Traffic in Small Arms

D Small Arms, Big Problems.

Passage Two

In order to combat sickness, many doctors rely heavily on prescribing medicines that are developed and aggressively advertised by pharmaceutical companies. Significantly, the world market for such drugs has skyrocketed in recent decades, from just a few billion dollars a year to hundreds of billions of dollars annually. What had been a consequence?

Medically prescribed drugs have helped many people. Yet, the health of some who take drugs has either remained unchanged or become worse. So, recently some have turned to using other methods of medical treatment.

In places where modern, conventional medicine has been the standard of care, many are now turning to what have been called alternative, or complementary, therapies. “The Berlin Wall that has long divided alternative therapies from mainstream medicine appears to be crumbling,” said Consumer Reports of May 2000.

The Journal of the American Medical Association( JAMA) observed, “Alternative medical therapies such as the use of herbs, functionally defined as interventions neither taught widely in medical schools nor generally available in U. S. hospitals, have attracted increased national attention from the media, the medical community, governmental agencies, and the public.”

In the past, conventional medical practitioners have been skeptical about alternative medical practices, but 75 medical schools in the United States currently offer elective course work on alternative medicine, including Harvard, Stanford, University of Arizona, and Yale.

JAMA noted, “ Now an estimated 3 in 5 individual seeing a medical doctor for a principal condition also used an alternative therapy.And outside the United States, alternative medicine is popular throughout the industrialized world.”

The trend toward integrating alternative therapies with conventional ones has long been a general practice in many countries. As JAMA concluded, “There are no longer two types of medicine, conventional and complementary. There is only good medicine and bad medicine.”

56. This passage suggests that pharmaceutical companies ____

A pay doctors for prescribing their drugs.

B have raised the prices of their products sharply in recent years.

C spend more money on their advertisements than on their products.

D have produced some ineffective drugs.

57. The sentence “The Berlin Wall …. Appears to be crumbling” in the third paragraph implies that _____

A the restrictions on the practice of alternative therapies will be abolished.

B there are still strict restrictions on the practice of alternative drugs.

C conventional medicine and alternative therapies are incomparable.

D conventional medicine and alternative therapies are completely different remedies.

58. According to the passage, alternative therapies _____