Acupuncture(针灸)is based on the idea that energy flows through the human body along 12 lines or meridians(经脉). These meridians【B1

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问题     Acupuncture(针灸)is based on the idea that energy flows through the human body along 12 lines or meridians(经脉). These meridians【B1】______ at organs in the body, and illness is the result of a blockage of the energy flow to these organs. To remove the blockage, an acupuncturist【B2】______ very fine needles into the body at points along the meridians. This stimulates the flow of energy, and【B3】______ the patient’s health.
    What is the history of acupuncture? Traditional Chinese medicine has been practised for around 3000 years in the Far East, but is【B4】______ recent in the West, and acupuncture only really became well-known in the West in the 1970s as people began to travel more frequently between the two areas of the world. A【B5】______ event in the history of acupuncture came in 1971, when a journalist from the New York Times had his appendix removed in China, when on a trip to the country with Henry Kissinger, the Secretary of State for the USA. Surgeons used acupuncture to deaden the pain of the operation, which made a great【B6】______ on Kissinger.
    Although at first doctors in the West were often【B7】______ the medical value of acupuncture, in the last few years it has become more established as an 【B8】______to Western medical treatments, since clinical tests have shown that acupuncture is【B9】______ for a number of conditions. It is often used to relieve headaches, dental pain, back pain, and arthritis(关节炎), and to treat depression, stress, high【B10】______and anxiety.
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答案significant

解析 空格前的冠词a表明此处需填入辅音开头的词,修饰event(事件)。significant意为“重要的”。
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