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 "magn
In an uncritical August 11, 1997, World News Tonight report on " diamagnetic therapy," a physical therapist explained that "magn
admin
2013-01-10
58
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.
This passage is probably taken from______.
选项
A、an academic paper
B、a newspaper report
C、a textbook about magnets
D、science fiction
答案
B
解析
细节题型见文章第一段第一句:In an uncritical August 11,1997,World News Tonight report on…,因此答案为B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/sowO777K
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
THEILLUSIONOFFILM1Filmisanillusionbecausethemovingpicturesseenonthescreenarenotmovingatall.Afilmisact
LIFESUCCESSANDSATISFACTION1Lifesatisfaction,whichcanbedefinedasgeneralhappinessorwellbeing,isrelatedtoseve
LIFESUCCESSANDSATISFACTION1Lifesatisfaction,whichcanbedefinedasgeneralhappinessorwellbeing,isrelatedtoseve
Manypeoplehavelearnedaforeignlanguageintheirowncountry;othershavelearnedaforeignlanguageinthecountryinwhich
HenryFordExperimentingwithhouseholdobjectscanoftengetyoungpeopleintrouble,butforoneintelligent,inquisitive
Whatoursocietysuffersfrommosttodayistheabsenceofconsensusaboutwhatitshouldbe;suchconsensuscannotbegainedfr
Addingabicyclelanealongthefreewayhasresultedin______bicycletrafficonthetwomainroutesthroughtown.
Takethestalematebetweentheadministrationandtheoilcompaniesforexample.
Flexibilityisanessentialcomponentofgoodcooking.Youshouldneverfeellockedintoarecipeoramenuunlessitinvolvesa
随机试题
中世纪的托马斯.阿奎那认为美有三个要素,分别是【】
合理的行政组织结构的标准是什么?
男性,75岁,排尿困难3年余,直肠指诊发现前列腺结节,经直肠前列腺针吸提示右侧精囊受侵犯。该病人可采用的治疗方法为
苏合香丸的功用是
下列高层建筑中,哪种建筑在防火设计的建筑分类上属于一级?
某企业与某装修公司签订一份会议室装修合同,后因装修质量问题,双方发生纠纷,起诉至人民法院。人民法院经过审理后,判决装修公司恢复原样并赔偿相应损失。装修公司不服上诉,二审法院经审理认为上诉请求不成立,判决维持原判决。该判决产生的法律效力是( )。
①一个人的表情能改变容颜,特别是日积月累的表情,具有滴水穿石的效果②一个人的面容是先天生好的③你看那些老年夫妻,经过多年饮食和趣味的磨合,表情越来越趋相同,一颦一笑都相仿④这种美除了有姣好的面容作底子,更重要的是表情和气度在起
(2016年单选16)下列关于我国1999年宪法修正案内容的表述,正确的是()。
Longbusridesareliketelevisionshows.Theyhaveabeginning,amiddle,andanend--withcommercialsthrownineverythreeor
A、Herhousewasnotseriouslydamagedinthefire.B、Herhousedidnotcollapseuntilsheescaped.C、Herdaughterwasstillaliv
最新回复
(
0
)