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In the famous fairy tale,Snow White eats the Queen's apple and falls victim to a curse(诅咒);in Shakespeare's novel,Romeo drinks the poison and dies;some ancient Chinese emperors took pellets(*丸)that contained mercury(水银),believing that it would make them immortal,but they died afterward.
Poison has long been an important ingredient in literature and history,and it seems to always be associated with evil,danger and how much do you really know about poison?
An exhibition,The Power of Poison,opened last month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York,intended to give the audience a more vivid understanding of poison.
The museum tour starts in a rainforest setting,where you can see live examples of some of the most poisonous animals: caterpillars(毛毛虫),frogs and en poison frogs,for instance,aren't much bigger than a coin,but their skin is covered with a poison that can cut off the signaling power of your nerves,and a single frog has enough venom to kill 10 grown humans.
"Poisons can be bad for some things,"Michael Novacek,senior vice president of the museum,told NBC News. "Yet they can also be good for others."
A poisonous chemical found in the yew tree is effective against cancer,which is what led to the invention of a cancer-fighting drug called Taxol.
The benefits from natural poisons are not limited to just eve it or not,many substances(物质)that we regularly ingest(摄入)-chili,coffee and chocolate-owe their special flavors or stimulating(提神的)effects to chemicals that plants make to poison insects.
does the underlined word "immortal" in Paragraph 1 mean?
y moral ng forever
is the main purpose of the exhibition The Power of Poison?
give people more in-depth knowledge about poison. .
teach people how to handle poisonous animals.
inform people about which animals are the most poisonous.
show how poison has been used for medical treatment.
h of the following statements about the Golden poison frog is TRUE according to the article?
skin can cut off the signaling power of your nerves.
's about the size of a coin.
's the most poisonous animal on display.
can only see it an a rainforest setting of the museum.
stimulating effects of coffee come from .
ral poison made by the plant substances that we regularly ingest
icals produced by poisonous insects special flavor
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知识点:阅读理解
题型:阅读理解
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