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An often-used, but valuable analogy compares the immune system with an army. The defending troops are the white blood cells call
An often-used, but valuable analogy compares the immune system with an army. The defending troops are the white blood cells call
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2013-03-27
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An often-used, but valuable analogy compares the immune system with an army. The defending troops are the white blood cells called lymphocytes, born in the bone marrow, billeted in the lymph nodes and spleen, and on exercise in the blood and lymph systems. A body can muster some 200,000,000 cells, making the immune system comparable in mass to the liver or brain.
The lymphocytes are called to action when the enemy makes itself known. They attack anything foreign. Their job is to recognize the enemy for what it is, and then destroy it. One of the key features of the immune system is its specificity. Inoculation with smallpox provokes an attack on any smallpox virus, but on nothing else. This specificity of response depends on the lymphocyte’s ability to identify the enemy correctly by the molecules on its surface, called antigens.
An antigen is an enemy uniform. It can be a protein on the surface of a cold virus, or it can be a protein on the surface of a pollen grain, in which case the immune response takes the form of an allergy. An antigen can also be a protein on the surface of a transplanted organ, in which case the immune response "rejects" the transplant. Organs can therefore be transplanted only between closely related people—in whom the antigens are the same—or into people treated with a drug that suppresses the immune system, such as cyclosporin.
In the 1940s, an Australian immunologist, Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, proposed a theory that helped explain how lymphocytes recognize and are activated by specific foreign antigens. The clonal selection theory as it was called, suggested that the innate immune system was not a homogeneous mass of more or less identical lymphocytes, but rather was made up of millions of different families called clones. The members of each clone carry on their surfaces a receptor that is capable of identifying and binding to just one foreign antigen(or a part of it called the determinant).
Thus, when a foreign body carrying that antigen appears, the antigen binds to the receptor of only those lymphocyte clones which are capable of recognizing it. Once the antigen binds to the receptor, it stimulates the lymphocyte to divide, which generates more identical copies of itself. These clone members then attack the foreign entity which carries the antigen.
This implies that the immune system works on a "ready-made" basis. A person’s immune system inherits the knowledge of all foreign antigens to which it might be exposed. The sum of this inheritance increases as new threats are met.
In describing the immune system, the author does all of the following EXCEPT______.
选项
A、define a term
B、illustrate through a comparison
C、quote all authoritative sources
D、give an approximation
答案
C
解析
根据第一段的“An often-used,but valuable analogy compares the immune systemwith an army.”“The defending troops are the white blood cells called lymphocytes…systems.”“A body can muster some 200,000,000 cells”可知,作者运用了比喻、定义术语和提供近似值的方法来描述免疫系统。只有C项“引用权威资料”没有用到,因此C项正确。
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