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. 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 systems. C. People with high immune-system activity cannot develop mental illness. D. Mental illness does not cause people’s immune-system activity to decrease. E. Psychological treatment of mental illness is not as effective as is medical treatment 答案是D。陈向东的解释是:如果与D相反,心理疾病可抑制免疫系统的活性,提到的那种联系就不支持该研究人员的结论,因此必须有D这个假设。 但文中说具有低免疫系统活性的人会在心理健康测验中得低分,不正是说明心理疾病可以抑制免疫系统活性吗? B又为什么不对?心理疾病和肉体疾病在身体系统上的影响相似的话,不刚好证明了结论吗? |