Questões de Concurso Público ANVISA 2013 para Analista Administrativo - Conhecimentos Gerais - Todas as Áreas

Read the sentence below, considering the context of the text, and choose the alternative that best fills in correctly and respectively the blanks.

“When we eat, the food is _________ down into glucose (blood sugar), the body’s main energy source. As blood flows through the pancreas, this organ detects the high levels of glucose and knows to release insulin, a hormone that it produces in order to allow the cells _____________ the body to use the glucose. The cells have insulin receptors that allow glucose to enter. Then the cell either uses the glucose to make energy right away or __________ it as a future energy source.”

Read the sentence below and choose the option that fills in the blank with the correct form of the verb.

“The drugs affected by grapefruit juice usually have some difficulty entering the body after they are consumed because an intestinal enzyme partially destroys them as they ______________.”