问答题Excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning of active (1) o____ such as the heart, kidneys and the brain. Shipwrecked sailors who ate and drank nothing but sugar for nine days surely went (2)____ some of this trauma.  This incident occur

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Excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning of active (1) o____ such as the heart, kidneys and the brain. Shipwrecked sailors who ate and drank nothing but sugar for nine days surely went (2)____ some of this trauma.  This incident occurred when a vessel carrying a (3) ca____ of sugar was shipwrecked in 1793. The five (4)____(survive) sailors were finally rescued nine days after the accident. They were in a wasted condition due to starvation, having consumed nothing but (5)____.French physiologist F. Magendie was inspired by that incident to (6) co____ a series of experiments with (7) an____. In the experiments, he fed dogs a diet of sugar and water. All the dogs wasted and died.  The shipwrecked sailors and the French physiologist’s experimental dogs proved the same point. As a steady diet, sugar is worse than nothing. Plain water can keep you (8) a____ for quite some time. Sugar and water can kill you. Humans and animals are “unable to subsist (9)____ a diet of sugar”. The dead dogs in Professor Magendie’s (10) la____ alerted the sugar industry to the hazards of free scientific inquiry. From that day to this, the sugar industry has invested millions of dollars in behind-the-scenes, subsidized science. The best scientific names that money could buy have been hired, in the hope that they could one day come up with something at least pseudoscientific in the way of glad tidings about sugar.

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正确答案: 1.organs 后面提到的心脏、肾和大脑都属于人体器官,所以此处应填organs。
2.through go through经历 (痛苦、困难等),遭受。trauma损伤,创伤。
3.cargo 船上载的糖属于船货。cargo船货,货物。
4.surviving 动名词作形容词,作sailors的定语。
5.sugar 第一段最后一句提到过Shipwrecked sailors who ate and drank nothing but sugar for nine days…。
6.conduct conduct experiment做实验。
7.animals 空格后面提到在实
验中他只喂狗水和糖,可见他的实验对象是动物。
8.alive 淡水可以让人存活很长时间,与后面一句提到的“水和糖一起会让人死亡”对应。
9.on subsist on靠…生活,以…维持生命。
10.laboratory / lab 上文提到在Magendie做的一系列试验中所有的狗都死了,可断定此处的死狗是在Magendie的实验室中。
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