A researcher discovered that people who have low levels of immune-system activity tend to score much lower on tests of mental health than do people with normal or high immune-system activity. The researcher concluded from this experiment that the immune system protects against mental illness as well as against physical disease. 16. The researcher’s conclusion depends on which of the following assumptions? (A) High immune-system activity protects against mental illness better than normal immune-system activity does. (B) Mental illness is similar to physical disease in its effects on body system. (C) People with high immune-system activity cannot develop mental illness. (D) Mental illness does not cause people’s immune-system activity to decrease.(D) (E) Psychological treatment of mental illness is not as effective as is medical treatment. 17. The researcher’s conclusion would be most seriously weakened if it were true that (A) there was a one-year delay between the completion of a pilot study for the experiment and the initiation of the experiment itself (B) people’s levels of immune-system activity are not affected by their use of medications (C) a few people with high immune-system activity had scores on the test of mental health that were similar to the scores of people who had normal immune-system activity (D) people who have low immune-system activity tend to contract more viral infections than do people with normal or high immune-system activity(E) (E) high levels of stress first cause mental illness and then cause decreased immune-system activity in normal individuals
20. Seven countries signed a treaty binding each of them to perform specified actions on a certain fixed date, with the actions of each conditional on simultaneous action taken by the other countries. Each country was also to notify the six other countries when it had completed its action. The simultaneous-action provision of the treaty leaves open the possibility that (A) the compliance date was subject to postponement, according to the terms of the treaty (B) one of the countries might not be required to make any changes or take any steps in order to comply with the treaty, whereas all the other countries are so required (C) each country might have a well-founded excuse, based on the provision, for its own lack of compliance (D) the treaty specified that the signal for one of the countries to initiate action was notification by the other countries that they had completed action(C) (E) there was ambiguity with respect to the date after which all actions contemplated in the treaty are to be complete 答案分别是 D E C 但不知为何??
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