The Case of the Disappearing Fingerprints One useful anti-cancer drug can effectively erase the whorls and other characteristic marks that give people their distinctive fingerprints. Losing (51) become troublesome. A case released online in a letter by Annals of Oncology indicates how big a (52) of losing fingerprints is. Eng-Huat Tan, a Singapore-based medical doctor describes a 62-year old man who has used capecitabine to (53) his nasopharyngeal cancer. After three years on the (54) , the patient decided to visit U.S. relatives last December. But he was stopped by U.S customs officials (55) 4 hours after entering the country when those officials couldn’t get fingerprints from the man. There were no distinctive swirly (56) appearing from his index finger. U.S. customs has been fingerprinting incoming foreign visitors for years, Tan says. Their index fingers are (57) and screened against digital files of the fingerprints of bad guys—terrorists and potential criminals that our federal guardians have been tasked with keeping out of the country. Unfortunately, for the Singapore travelers, one potential (58) effect of his drug treatment is a smoothing of the tissue on the finger pads. (59) , no fingerprints. "It is uncertain when fingerprint loss will (60) to take place in patients who are taking capecitabine," Tan points out. So he cautions any physicians who (61) the drug to provide their patients with a doctor’s note pointing out that their medicine may cause fingerprints to disappear. Eventually, the Singapore traveler made it into the United States. I guess the name on his passport didn’t raise any red flags. But he’s also now got the explanatory doctor’s note-and won’t leave home (62) it. By the way, maybe the Food and Drug Administration, (63) approved use of the drug years ago, should consider (64) its list of side effects associated with this medicine. The current list does note that patients may experience vomiting, stomach pain and some other side effects. But no where (65) it mention the potential for loss of fingerprints.
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1988年北美的干旱可能是由太平洋赤道附近温度状况的大面积范围改变时引起的。因此,这场干旱不能证明长期而言全球发生变暖趋势的假说。该趋势据称是由大气污染物如二氧化碳造成的。 下面哪个,如果正确,构成了对以上论述的最好的批判
A. 我们有所记录的1988年以前的大部分干旱的前身是太平洋的天气形势的变化。
B. 美国在过去的100年没有转暖的趋势。
C. 从排放污染物到它所引起的全球转暖的发生之间的时间很长。
D. 1988年排放到大气中的二氧化碳气体有所增加。
E. 全球转暖的趋势会增加太平洋气温形势转变的频率及其严重性。
港湾酒店如果既有清蒸石斑,又有白灼花螺,则一定会有盐戈曷花蟹;酒店在月末从不卖盐焗花蟹;只有当港湾酒店卖白灼花螺时,老王才会与朋友到港湾酒店吃海鲜。 如果上述断定为真,以下哪项一定为真
A. 港湾酒店在月末不会卖清蒸石斑。
B. 老王与朋友到港湾酒店不会既吃清蒸石斑,又吃白灼花螺。
C. 港湾酒店只有在月末才不卖白灼花螺。
D. 老王不会在月末与朋友到港湾酒店吃海鲜,因为那里没有盐焗花蟹。
E. 如果老王在月末与朋友到港湾酒店吃海鲜,他们肯定吃不到清蒸石斑。
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Invisibility Ring Scientists can’t yet make an invisibility cloak like the one that Harry Potter uses. But, for the first time, they’ve constructed a simple cloaking device that makes itself and something placed inside it invisible to microwaves. When a person "sees" an object, his or her eye senses many different waves of visible light as they bounce off the object. The eye and brain then work together to organize the sesensations and reconstruct the object’s original shape. So, to make an object invisible, scientists have to keep waves from bouncing off it. And they have to make sure the object casts no shadow. Otherwise, the absence of reflected light on one side would give the object away. Invisibility isn’t possible yet with waves of light that the human eye can see. But it is now possible with microwaves. Like visible light, microwaves are a form of radiant energy. They are part of the electromagnetic spectrum, which also includes radio waves, infrared light, ultraviolet rays, X rays, and gamma rays. The wave lengths of microwaves are shorter than those of radio waves but longer than those of visible light. The scientists’ new "invisibility device" is the size of a drink coaster and shaped like a ring. The ring is made of a special material with unusual ability. When microwaves strike the ring, very few bounce off it. Instead, they pass through the ring, which bends the waves all the way around until they reach the opposite side. The waves then return to their original paths. To a detector set up to receive microwaves on the other side of the ring, it looks as if the waves never changed their paths as if there were no object in the way! So, the ring is effectively invisible. When the researchers put a small copper loop inside the ring, it, too, is nearly invisible. However, the cloaking device and anything inside it do cast a pale shadow. And the device works only for microwaves, not for visible light or any kind of electromagnetic radiation. So, Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak doesn’t have any real competition yet. Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak doesn’t have any real competition yet, because ______.
A. scientists have not found out how his cloak works
B. the cloaking device is a total failure
C. the cloaking device works only for microwaves
D. the cloaking device works only for visible light