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If a successful longevity treatment were to emerge suddenly out of all the new developments of medical science,tacking on extra decades or even centuries to our lives, the results could be disastrous. It might very well be a case ofthe cure’s being worse than the disease. This would be true even for the individuals lucky enough to receive thetreatment. Presumably any treatment that conferred long life would keep people generally healthy, but the extra yearswould be a kind of medical balancing act, akin to the jugglers who dash about keeping plates spinning on top of poles.It would be nerve-racking at best.   What if the treatments did little or nothing to help one’s memory? This is a crucial point that is often overlookedin discussions of longevity. The brain is by far the most complex organ known to us, and the workings of memory arenot really understood. Keeping the body alive might be possible before we could do anything to strengthen or restorelost memories. Even the ordinary lifetime often seems too much for human memory to hold or recall, and if decadeswere tacked on, the long middle years of a life might be substantially forgotten, leaving only dim memories ofchildhood and recent events. If that were the case, the whole point of the exercise would be lost, for it is memory thatmakes us human. 
32 What is the main concern of this passage?
(A) Ways to prolong human’s life in the future
(B) The importance of longevity in human life
(C) The possible problems people might face when life is prolonged
(D) The difficulties of prolonging human life at the present time

參考答案

答案：C
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(1),C(0),D(1),E(0)

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