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Recent research has claimed that an excess of positive ions in the air can have an ill effect on people’s physical or psychologi

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问题     Recent research has claimed that an excess of positive ions in the air can have an ill effect on people’s physical or psychological health. What are positive ions? Well, the air is full of ions, electrically charged particles, and generally there is a rough balance between the positive and the negative charged. But sometimes this balance becomes disturbed and a larger proportion of positive ions are found. This happens naturally before thunderstorm, earthquakes when winds such as the Mistral, Hamsin or Sharav are blowing in certain countries. Or it can be caused by a build-up of static electricity indoors from carpets or clothing made of man-made fibers, or from TV sets, duplicators or computer display screens.
    When a large number of positive ions are present, in the air many people experience unpleasant effects such as headaches, fatigue, irritability, and some particularly sensitive people suffer nausea or even mental disturbance. Animals are also affected, particularly before earthquakes, snakes have been observed to come out of hibernation, rats to flee from their burrows, dogs howl and cats jump about unaccountably. This has led the U.S. Geographical Survey to fund a network, of volunteers to watch animals in an effort to foresee such disasters before they hit vulnerable areas such as California.
    Conversely, when large numbers of negative ions are present, then people have a feeling of well-being. Natural conditions that produce these large amounts are near the sea, close to waterfalls or fountains, or in any place where water is sprayed, or forms a spray. This probably accounts for the beneficial effect of a holiday by the sea, or in the mountains with tumbling streams or waterfalls.
    To increase the supply of negative ions indoors, some scientists recommend the use of ionisers: small portable machines, which generate negative ions. They claim that ionisers not only clean and refresh the air but also improve the health of people sensitive to excess positive ions. Of course, there are the detractors, other scientists, who dismiss such claims and are skeptical about negative / positive ion research. Therefore people can only make up their own minds by observing the effects on themselves, or on others, of a negative rich or poor environment. After all it is debatable whether depending on seismic readings to anticipate earthquakes is more effective than watching the cat.
According to the passage, some scientists believe that______.
选项 A、watching animals to anticipate earthquakes is more effective than depending on seismography
B、the unusual behavior of animals cannot be explained
C、neither watching nor using seismographs is reliable
D、earthquake cannot be predicted
答案A
解析 本题为细节分析题。根据文章最后一句话，“After all it is debatable whetherdepending on seismic readings to anticipate earthquakes is more effective than watching the cat．”可以推出，科学家认为依据地震知识预测地震，不如观察猫的反常行为更为有效。A选项符合原文意思。B和C选项原文并未提及，属无中生有。原文并没有提及观测或使用地震仪都不可靠的问题，故C选项也排除。因此，A选项正确。
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