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
考研
We’ve all seen the headlines about mobile phones. If you believed everything you read, you’d throw your mobile away immediately
We’ve all seen the headlines about mobile phones. If you believed everything you read, you’d throw your mobile away immediately
admin
2015-04-10
19
问题
We’ve all seen the headlines about mobile phones. If you believed everything you read, you’d throw your mobile away immediately for fear of everything from cancer to infertility. And that’s before we even start to think about mobile phone base stations. 40 percent of people surveyed believed that masts are likely to cause health problems. So what’s the truth? Should we worry about our mobile phones?
A vast amount of research has been done into mobile phone handsets. A few studies have claimed that some phones can cause higher rates of brain tumors.
【C1】______
In 1999, the government commissioned an independent group of experts to look into the potential risks of phones. The result was the "Stewart Report", published in April 2000. This report advised that gaps in our current knowledge mean we should take a "precautionary approach" to phone use.
【C2】______
In 2000, the Department of Health published a leaflet summarizing the recommendations from the "Stewart Report". This leaflet is supposed to be distributed by every mobile phone retailer. Sadly not all of the retailers are doing this.
【C3】______
However, the dispute is still out on mobile phone handsets, especially the mobile phone base stations. Is there any clearer evidence that they cause health problems? Again there is conflicting information. The "Stewart Report" does not state implicitly any adverse health effects when exposed to a mobile phone. However, many people up and down the country are suspicious.
【C4】______
The Should I Worry About team decided to carry out a test. They put ten students in a house for ten days and erected a mobile mast in the garden. They weren’t entirely honest with them though; they told the students the mast was on at the start of the experiment and off at the end. In fact it was off at the start and on at the end. What’s interesting is that the only time any of the students felt ill was when the mast was OFF but they thought it was ON.
【C5】______
Then, should we all chuck our phones in the bin? Probably not. The benefits do seem to outweigh any possible dangers, and there are things you can do to protect yourself from any possible health effects. So if you are worried, use a hands-free kit. When your signal is very low, switch your phone off because it’s working extra hard at those times.
[A]But don’t throw your phone in the bin just yet. Results which suggest that mobiles might damage health are actually rare. Those that do tend to have been done with old style analogue phones, which use a much stronger signal than modern phones.
[B]The leaflet is available in every phone. Next time you buy a mobile phone, do not forget to ask for one.
[C]Given the immense numbers of mobile users, even small adverse effects on health could have major public health implications.
[D]For adults this means using our phones for limited amounts of time. For children the advice was much stronger. The report recommends that under-16s use their phones only for essential calls.
[E]The International Agency for Research on Cancer found a link between childhood cancer and mobile phones. Like power lines, mobile phones also emit radiation.
[F]The small experiment suggests that people’s fear of phone masts can be a factor in making them feel unwell. There are some people though who might be affected by phone masts. A large study is just beginning to try to spot these hypersensitive people.
[G]In order to dissolve such doubts, one examiner visited a "sick-mast village", which has one of the highest concentration of masts in the country. The residents—with tin-foil shielding in their houses—are living in fear. They are convinced that the masts are causing a host of symptoms. Are their problems caused by the masts, or could they be caused by worry?
【C4】
选项
答案
G
解析
此项承接上文,为了排除人们心中的疑问,有人作了一项专门的调查,特地考察了一个手机天线特别集中的村庄。村民担心天线辐射会对他们的身体有害,于是在房屋周围蒙上了一层锡纸。有必要这么恐慌吗?
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/YH74777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Theauthor’spurposeinwritingthispassageis______.Whichofthefollowingbestdefinestheword"omission"(Paragraph6)?
Doctorshaverecentlydiscoveredthat______.Thefollowingstatementsarethereasonswhythesurvivalrateforhigh-riskbabie
Doctorshaverecentlydiscoveredthat______.Accordingtothepassage,allofthefollowingaretrueaboutisoletteEXCEPT_____
ItisgenerallybelievedthatthedigitaldivideissomethingThepurposeoftheauthorinwritingthetextis
Iftheopinionpollsaretobebelieved,mostAmericansarecomingtotrusttheirgovernmentmorethantheyusedto.Thehabith
WhyisEnglishsodifficult?ItisoftenthoughtthatthenumberofwordsintheEnglishlanguageisamajorreason,butthisis
TheFluVirusCannotBeForeseenThereisajokeamongfluresearchers:"Ifyou’veseenonefluseason,you’veseen...o
Languagemeansthatwehaveself-consciousness,whichmakesusauniquespeciesabletocontrolourselvesandourenvironmentsi
Languagemeansthatwehaveself-consciousness,whichmakesusauniquespeciesabletocontrolourselvesandourenvironmentsi
随机试题
联系实际分析电子商务的特点及实现过程。
Nowadays,isitpossibletotellaperson’sclassjustbylookingathim?Physicaldetails【B1】______tellusabouthealth,diet
腰椎间盘突出症时,下列哪项阳性体征最易出现()
频繁剧烈呕吐可引起()
嘱患者服药时,应避免接触牙齿的药物是
下列句子中,加横线的词在句中的用意与现代汉语意义相同的是()。
2016年11月15,李克强总理主持召开国务院常务会议,通过了根据《中华人民共和国国民经济和社会发展第十三个五年规划纲要》制定的()三个补“短板”的规划。
中国的专利申请平均每年以48%的速度增长。中国的专利实施只占专利总量的20%~30%,与国外达80%的实施率相比,专利差距很大。在中国专利申报总量中只有15%来自于企业,而发达国家的专利申请80%来自于企业。这段话支持了这样一种观点,即:
国家权力是人民的,国家权力是为人民服务的,即一切权力为民所有,一切权力为民所用,因此,权力运行必须受到有效制约和监督。权力制约的要求体现为
TheJusticeDepartmenthasbegunaninvestigationintowhethertherecruitingpracticesofsomeofthelargesttechnologycompan
最新回复
(
0
)