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請依下文回答第 6 題至第 10 題：     The news media are hungry for new findings, and reporters often latch onto ideas from the scientificlaboratories before they have been fully tested. Also, a reporter who lacks a strong understanding of science maymisunderstand or misreport complex scientific principles. To tell the truth, sometimes scientists also get excitedabout their findings, and leak them to the press before they have been through a rigorous review by the scientists’peers. As a result, the public is often exposed to late-breaking nutrition news stories before the findings are fullyconfirmed. Then, when the hypothesis being tested fails to hold up to a later challenge, consumers feel betrayedby what is simply the normal course of science at work.      Sometimes media sensationalism overrates the importance of even true, replicated findings. For example, themedia eagerly report that oat products lower blood cholesterol, a lipid indicative of heart disease risk. Althoughthe reports are true, they often fail to mention that eating a nutritious diet that is low in certain fats is still themajor step toward lowering blood cholesterol.     Today, oat bran’s cholesterol-lowering effect is established, and labels on food packages can proclaim that adiet high in oats may reduce the risk of heart disease. The whole process of discovery, challenge, and vindicationtook almost 10 years of research. Some other lines of research have taken much longer. In science, a singlefinding almost never makes a crucial difference to our knowledge as a whole, but like each individual frame in amovie, it contributes a little to the big picture. Many such frames are needed to tell the whole story.
6 What is the main reason for inconsistent nutrition news reports?
(A) Reporters generally lack fundamental knowledge in nutrition science.
(B) The news media report research findings too soon before they are confirmed.
(C) Nutrition researchers do not agree upon which findings to report from their labs.
(D) Nutrition research lacks integrity in its methodology.

參考答案

答案：B
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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