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A pure virus(病毒)could be kept in a bottle, just like hundreds of other chemicals. Yet, when a virus is placed on a living thing,
A pure virus(病毒)could be kept in a bottle, just like hundreds of other chemicals. Yet, when a virus is placed on a living thing,
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2016-11-16
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A pure virus(病毒)could be kept in a bottle, just like hundreds of other chemicals. Yet, when a virus is placed on a living thing, it comes to life. As long as it is on a living material, it grows.
A difficult question still remains—what is a virus? Is it living or chemical? Men of science had always thought life and not-life to be as different as black and white. With the discovery of the virus , they became aware of
a grey area
that was neither black nor white.
Until the 1930’ s, it was accepted that there was also a great difference in size between the largest chemical molecules(分子)and the smallest living things. As new and much finer filters(过滤器)were invented, men were able to measure viruses. The first virus to be measured was found to be about 100 millimicrons(毫微米)across.
The largest known chemical molecule measures only 22 millimicrons. The smallest living thing measures almost seven times that size or 150 millimicrons. When viruses were measured, they were found to range in size from 16 millimicrons to 300 millimicrons. Most were found to be larger than the largest chemical molecules and smaller than the smallest living things.
The answer to the puzzle—what is a virus? —must be that it is both living and not living. In a living cell, it is a live thing. In a bottle, it is nothing more than a chemical. We now realize that the virus is actually a link between life and not-life.
What do the underlined words "a grey area" in paragraph 2 refer to?
选项
A、The discovery of unknown chemicals.
B、Viruses in a state of living and not living.
C、A difficult question unsolved about viruses.
D、The colour of viruses between black and white.
答案
B
解析
推理题。题干意为“第二段中划线词组a grey area指的是什么?”。由文章第二段可知,科学家们总是把有生命和无生命的物体视作是截然相反的两者。随着病毒的发现,他们开始意识到在之前的两者之间还有一个中间的领域,它并不属于任何一方。所以这里的a grey area(灰色领域)指的是病毒处于一种生命体与非生命体的中间地带。故B为正确答案。
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