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Nuclear power’s danger to health, safety, and even life itself can be summed up in one word: radiation. Nuclear radiation ha
Nuclear power’s danger to health, safety, and even life itself can be summed up in one word: radiation. Nuclear radiation ha
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2005-06-26
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Nuclear power’s danger to health, safety, and even life itself can be summed up in one word: radiation.
Nuclear radiation has a certain mystery about it, partly because it cannot be detected by human senses. It can’t be seen or heard, or touched or tasted, even though it may be all around us. There are other things like that. For example, radio waves are all around us but we can’t detect them, sense them, without a radio receiver. Similarly, we can’t sense radioactivity without a radiation detector. But unlike common radio waves, nuclear radiation is not harmless to human beings and other living things.
At very high levels, radiation can kill an animal or human being outright by killing masses of cells in vital organs. But even the lowest levels can do serious damage. There is no level of radiation that is completely safe. If the radiation does not hit anything important, the damage may not be significant. This is the case when only a few cells are hit, and if they are killed outright, your body will replace the dead cells with healthy ones. But if the few cells are only damaged, and if they reproduce themselves, you may be in trouble. They reproduce themselves in a deformed way. They can grow into cancer. Sometimes this does not show up for many years.
This is another reason for some of the mystery about nuclear radiation. Serious damage can be done without the victim being aware at the time that damage has occurred. A person can be irradiated and feel fine, then die of cancer five, ten, or twenty years later as a result. Or a child can be born weak or liable to serious illness as a result of radiation absorbed by its grandparents.
Radiation can hurt us. We must know the truth.
The word "significant" in Paragraph 3 most probably means______.
选项
A、remarkable
B、meaningful
C、fatal
D、harmful
答案
C
解析
文章第三段“If the radiation does not hit anything important,the damage may not be significant.”如果辐射没有伤害到任何重要的器官,那么所造成的损害可能就不严重。接下来论述了高强度辐射的严重危害:“At very high levels,radiation can kill an animal or human being outright by killing masses of cells in vital organs.”所以该单词的意思应该是“致命的”,因为它可以导致人死亡的严重后果。C项与文章的意思相符。所以应该选C。
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