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The modem age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radios, televisions, and telephones that it is ba
The modem age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radios, televisions, and telephones that it is ba
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2010-06-01
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The modem age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radios, televisions, and telephones that it is bard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope (摸索) about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators.
Yet people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago. Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for millions of years. Scientists are discovering more and more that the living world may hold many interesting secrets of electricity that could benefit humanity.
All living cells sent out tiny pulses of electricity. As the heart beats, it sends out pulses that can be measured and recorded on the surface of the body. When the pulses are recorded, they form an electrocardiogram(心电图), which a doctor can study to determine how well the heart is working. The brain, too, sends out brain waves of electricity, which can be recorded in an electroencephalogram, The electric currents generated by most living cells are extremely small--of- ten so small that sensitive instruments are needed to record them. But in some animals, certain muscled cells have become so specialized as electrical generators that they do not work as muscle cells at all. When large numbers of these cells are linked together, the effect can be astonishing.
The electric eel is an amazing living storage battery. It can send a jolt of as much as eight hundred volts of electricity through the water in which it lives. ( An electric house current is only one hundred twenty volts. ) As many as four-fifths of all the cells in the electric eel’s body are specialized for generating electricity, and the strength of the shock it can deliver corresponds roughly to the length of its body.
What is the main idea of the passage?
选项
A、Electric eels are potentially dangerous.
B、Biology and electricity appear to be closely related.
C、People would be at a loss without electricity.
D、Scientists still have much to discover about electricity.
答案
D
解析
主旨题。文章从人们平时的用电情况讲到心电图,后来又谈到电鳗,描述了它具有储电的能力,可以说明人们对自然界很多情况还有待探询。
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