首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
In an uncritical August 11, 1997, World News Tonight report on " diamagnetic therapy," a physical therapist explained that "magn
In an uncritical August 11, 1997, World News Tonight report on " diamagnetic therapy," a physical therapist explained that "magn
admin
2016-06-23
16
问题
In an uncritical August 11, 1997, World News Tonight report on " diamagnetic therapy," a physical therapist explained that "magnets are another form of electric energy that we now think has a powerful effect on bodies. " A fellow selling $ 89 magnets proclaimed: "All humans are magnetic. Every cell has a positive and negative side of it. "
On the positive side, these magnets are so weak that they cause no harm. On the negative side, these magnets do have the remarkable power of attracting the pocketbooks of gullible Americans to the tune of about $ 300 million a year. They range in scale from coin-sized patches to mattresses, and their curative powers are said to be nearly limitless, based on the
premise
that magnetic fields increase blood circulation and enrich oxygen supplies because of the iron pressure in the blood.
This is fantastic flapdoodle and a financial flimflam. Iron atoms in a magnet are crammed together in a solid state about one atom apart from one another. In your blood only four iron atoms are allocated to each hemoglobin molecule, and they are separated by distances too great to form a magnet. This is easily rested by picking your finger and placing a drop of your blood next to a magnet.
What about claims that magnets attenuate pain? In a 1997 Baylor College of Medicine double-blind study of 50 patients (in which 29 got real magnets and 21 got sham ones), 76 percent in the experimental group but just 19 percent in the control group reported a reduction in pain. Unfortunately, this study included only one 45-minute treatment, did not try other pain-reduction
modalities
, did not record the length of the pain reduction and has never been replicated.
Scientists studying magnetic therapy would do well to read the 1784 " Report of the Commissioners Charged by the King to Examine Animal Magnetism" (reprinted in an English translation in Skeptic, Vol. 4, No. 3). The report was instituted by French King Louis XVI and conducted by Benjamin Franklin and Antoine Lavoisier to experimentally test the claims of German physician Franz Anton Mesmer, discoverer of "animal magnetism. " Mesmer reasoned that just as an invisible force of magnetism draws iron shavings to a lodestone, so does an invisible force of animal magnetism flow through living beings.
What does the passage mainly talk about?
选项
A、It has been proved that magnets do have certain effect on living beings.
B、How iron atoms in a magnet are crammed together.
C、Scientists carried out experiments to test the existence of magnets.
D、It is very easy to test the existence of magnets.
答案
A
解析
主旨题型本文第一段就介绍了文章要谈的主题:World News Tonight上报道了“diamagnetic therapy”,随之谈到了一个运用物理疗法医治病人的医学家认为“magnets are another form of electric energy that we now think has a powerful effect on bodies.”(目前我们认为磁体是另一种会对人体产生巨大作用的电能),后面几段则谈了磁体对人可能造成的积极或消极的影响等;因此选项A为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/A5wO777K
本试题收录于:
CATTI三级笔译综合能力题库翻译专业资格(CATTI)分类
0
CATTI三级笔译综合能力
翻译专业资格(CATTI)
相关试题推荐
NarratorListentoaconversationbetweenastudentandhertutor.Nowgetreadytoanswerthequestions.Youmayuseyournotes
StudyHabitsIncollegeinanyclass,youwillfindwidelydifferenttypesofpeople,notonlyinpersonalitybutalsoinschola
HudsonRiverSchoolTheHudsonRiverSchoolencompassestwogenerationsofpaintersinspiredbyThomasCole’sawesomelyRomantic
GlobalDevelopmentsSociologiststellusthereisalinkbetweenprivatelivesandsocialforces.Anoutstandingexampleofsuch
Oneinterpretationregardingtheabsenceoffossilsduringthisimportant100-million-yearperiodisthatearlyanimalsweresof
Moreover,gettingpetroleumoutofthegroundandfromundertheseaandtotheconsumercancreateenvironmentalproblemsanywh
"ConquestbyPatents"Patentsareaformofintellectualpropertyrightsoftentoutedasameanstogive’incentiveandrewar
Whatdoesthewomanimplyaboutthestudent’schancesofbeingacceptedintothesummerprogram?
Governmentagenciesatalllevelshaveworkedtoensurerecycling’sviabilitybyincreasinggovernmentpurchasesofrecycled-con
Alanmanagedtorestrainhisanger.
随机试题
按照《会计法》的规定,财政部制定并发布了一系列制度及规范性文件,主要有()。
凯恩斯主义的贸易理论是______。
经济学家一般认为,能够产生真实效应的通货膨胀是()通货膨胀。
西安稠酒
“人有悲欢离合,月有阴晴圆缺。”自然界的残缺往往产生美的意境,人生也有缺憾。你怎么看待?
典范借鉴是指从他人(或对方)那里发现、学习并应用最佳做法的过程,以达到帮助改善自身业绩的目的。根据上述定义,下列属于典范借鉴的是()。
在TCP/IP协议分层结构中,SNMP是在传输层协议之上的(58)请求/响应协议;SNMP协议管理操作中,代理主动向管理进程报告事件的操作是(59)。(58)
Tosaythatthechildlearnsbyimitationandthatthewaytoteachistosetagoodexampleoversimplifies.Nochildimitatese
【S1】【S3】
Trafficlightsarecrucialtoolsforregulatingtrafficflow.Theyarenot,however,perfect.Driversexchangethegridlockthat
最新回复
(
0
)