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
Everyone seems to be in favor of progress. But "progress" is a funny word. It doesn’t necessarily mean that something has become
Everyone seems to be in favor of progress. But "progress" is a funny word. It doesn’t necessarily mean that something has become
admin
2010-05-26
26
问题
Everyone seems to be in favor of progress. But "progress" is a funny word. It doesn’t necessarily mean that something has become stronger, wiser or better. It simply means changing it from being one thing to another and sometimes it turns out to be worse than before.
Consider medicine, for instance. No one can deny that medical progress has enriched our lives tremendously. Because of medical advancements, we eat better, live easier and are able to take care of ourselves more efficiently. We can cure disease with no more than one injection or a pill. If we have a serious accident, surgeons can put us back together again. If we are born with something defective, they can repair it. They can make us happy, restore our normality, ease our pain, replace worn parts and give us children. They can even bring us back from the dead. These are wonderful achievements, but there is a price we have to pay.
Because medicine has reduced infant mortality and natural death so significantly, the population has been rising steadily, in spite of serious efforts to reduce the rate of population growth. Less than a century ago in the United States, infant mortality claimed more than half of the newborn within the first year of life. Medical advances, however, have now reduced that rate to nearly zero. A child born in the United States today has better than a 90% chance of survival. Furthermore, medical advances have ensured that most of those infants will live to be seventy years of age or more, and even that life expectancy increases every year. The result of this progress is an enormous population increase that threatens the quality of life, brought about by progress in the medical profession.
The main idea of the passage is that ______.
选项
A、progress doesn’t always bring about an improvement
B、modern medicine has made our lives better in some ways
C、the growth in population is partly the result of medical progress
D、progress is too difficult to understand
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/E2LFFFFM
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
HowtoRemember:SomeBasicPrinciplesHowdoyoucommunicatesomethingyou’veforgotten?Youcan’t!Now’sthetimetofit
A、Heforgottoassignhomeworktohisstudents.B、Hehasnotimetogivetheclass.C、Heisill,buthehasaclasstoday.D、He
A、Theyneedlayersofskins.B、Theyneedagreatmanypoles.C、Theyneedaspecialknife.D、Theyneedmanydeerskinblankets.C
A、Theywerebothbusydoingtheirownwork.B、Theywaitedforeachotheratdifferentplaces.C、Theywenttothestreetcornera
A、40minutes.B、30minutes.C、20minutes.D、15minutes.B
Theindustrialsocietieshavebeenextremelyproductiveduringthelasttwocenturies.The【S1】______advancehasbeenremarkabl
A、Whenshewasworkinginadepartmentstore.B、Whenshewasworkingforapaintinghouse.C、Whenshewasworkinginataxicomp
A、Heisarguingwiththewoman.B、Heisapologizingtothewoman.C、Heisaskingforhelp.D、Heisofferingforhelp.C
Thegreatestrecentsocialchangeshavebeeninthelivesofwomen.Duringthetwentiethcenturytherehasbeenaremarkablesho
A、Thosewhowereborninspring.B、Thosewhowereborninsummer.C、Thosewhowereborninautumn.D、Thosewhowereborninwint
随机试题
在现实生活中确定工资水平时需要注意,处于不同行业、部门或职业中的劳动者工资水平的对比关系要符合()。
急诊室收治了一名从高处跌落而昏迷不醒的5岁男孩,在询问病史时,男孩的母亲语无伦次。护士发现男孩身上有多处旧伤,便请来了社会工作者。社会工作者走访了男孩的父母、亲戚、邻居、居委会和幼儿园。社会工作者此举的目的是()。
高脂血症可分为
A.性激素B.甲状腺激素C.胰岛素D.糖皮质激素E.活性维生素D维持人体基础代谢的激素是()
引出Chaddock征提示( )。
试问,墙底嵌固截面破坏时的受弯及受剪承载力设计值(kN.m;kN)与下列何项数值最为接近?提示:取1m长墙体计算。
某大型矿井采用立井开拓方式,主井直径6.0m,井深890m;副井直径7.0m,井深850m;设计巷道断面较大,井底装载硐室在主井车场水平以下。业主提供的地质资料中,基岩段涌水量小于10m3/h。施工单位经业主同意安排主井比副井提前3个月开工,装载硐室随井筒
直观性原则
在商品使用价值和价值的关系中()
以下叙述中正确的是()。
最新回复
(
0
)