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 "magne
In an uncritical August 11, 1997, World News Tonight report on "diamagnetic therapy," a physical therapist explained that "magne
admin
2011-01-13
54
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.
By "this is fantastic flapdoodle and a financial flimflam," the author probably means______.
选项
A、this is simply cheating of money
B、this is no more than a game play
C、this is a sheer lie
D、this is a far fetched nonsense
答案
A
解析
词义题型本句主要需要弄清fantastic flapdoodle和financial flimflam的意思;根据随后的解释和举例,尤其是上一段提到的人们为之花费大量的金钱来买这些所谓能为人们带来巨大治疗效果的磁体,由此得知选项A为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/D85O777K
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
CarlRoger’sclient-centeredtherapyisnow(widely)employedandisamong(themost)influential(technique)inmodernUnitedS
Psychoanalysisisaformoftherapy(thatattempts)(toeliminate)conflict(byalter)thepersonality(ina)positiveway.
A、Hewouldlikethewomantoreschedulethemeeting.B、HewillmeetthewomanbrieflyonFridayC、Thereportwillnotbereadyu
NarratorListentoapartofatalkreportingastudyproject.Whatisthemainresearchmethod?
NarratorListentoapartofatalkreportingastudyproject.Whywastheprofessorfirstinterestedinthesubject?
WhoseGraveIsThisAnyway?TherearemanylegendsabouttheworldfamousEgyptianPharaohs’tombs,whichhavelainsilentf
WhoseGraveIsThisAnyway?TherearemanylegendsabouttheworldfamousEgyptianPharaohs’tombs,whichhavelainsilentf
WhoseGraveIsThisAnyway?TherearemanylegendsabouttheworldfamousEgyptianPharaohs’tombs,whichhavelainsilentf
ArtificialIntelligenceAnydiscussionofartificialintelligence,orA.I.,mustinevitablystartwiththequestionofwhat
随机试题
患者,男,28岁。因十二指肠球部溃疡出血入院。下列哪些临床表现和实验室检查提示有活动性出血
船名为“0005E”。( )报检时无须提供日本出口商出具的食品卫生证书。( )
在同一国家或地区生产相同品牌、相同规格的电视机是相同货物。()
如果注册会计师提请被审计单位管理层在财务报表中披露导致对持续经营能力产生重大疑虑的主要事项或情况以及管理层拟采取的改善措施,然后依据披露情况决定其发表的审计意见类型,意味着注册会计师可能发表()审计报告。
旅游车发生交通事故时,导游人员应首先()。
Therelationshipbetween"furniture"and"desk"is______.
社会融入是指那些处于相对弱势地位的个体或群体能动地与特定社区中的个体与群体进行反思性、持续性互动的社会行动过程。根据上述定义,下列不属于社会融人的是:
阅读以下说明。[说明]公司A网络拓扑结构如图2-1所示,其中FTP_server是在WindowsServer2003操作系统中配置的FTP服务器,仅供公司内部主机访问。图2-2是配置FTP服务时的FTP站点选项卡,“IP地址”栏的
考生文件夹下存在一个数据库文件“samp3.accdb”,里面已经设计了表对象“tEmp”、查询对象“qEmp”和窗体对象“fEmp”。同时,给出窗体对象“fEmp”上两个按钮的单击事件代码,试按以下要求补充设计。(1)将窗体“fEmp”上名称为
窗体中有命令按钮Commandl,事件过程如下:PublicFunctionf(xAsInteger)AsIntegerDimYAsIntegerx=20:y=2f=x*yEndFunctionPrivateSu
最新回复
(
0
)