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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。
Nuclear power's danger to health, safety, and even life itself can be described in one word: radiation.
Nuclear radiation has a certain mystery about it, partly because it cannot be detected by human senses. It can't be seen or heard or touched or tasted, even though it may be all around us. There are other things like that. For example, radio waves are all around us but we can't detect them, sense them, without a radio receiver. Similarly, we can't sense radioactivity without a radiation detector. But unlike common radio waves, nuclear radiation is not harmless to human beings and other living things.
At very high levels radiation can kill an animal or human being out - right by killing masses of cells in important organs. But even the lowest levels can do serious damage. There is no level of radiation that is completely safe. If the radiation does not hit anything important, the damage may not be significant. This is the case when only a few cells are hit, and if they are killed outright, your body will replace the dead cells with healthy ones. But if the few cells are only damaged, and if they reproduce themselves, you may be in trouble. They reproduce themselves in an unusual way. They can grow into cancer. Sometimes this does not show up for many yeas.
This is another reason for some of the mystery; about nuclear radiation, serious damage can be done without the knowledge of the person at the time that damage has occurred. A person can be irradiated and feel fine, then die of cancer five, ten, or twenty years later as a result. Or a child can be born weak or easy to get serious illness as a result of radiation absorbed by its grandparents.
Radiation can hurt us. We must know the truth.
1．According to the passage, the danger of nuclear power lies in ________.
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2．Radiation can lead to serious results even at lowest level
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A．when it kills few cells
B．if it damages few cells
C．though the damaged cells can repair themselves
D．unless the damaged cells can reproduce themselves
3．The word “absorbed” underlined in the last paragraph means here ________.
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4．Which of the following can be best inferred from the passage?
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A．The importance of protection from radiation cannot be overemphasized.
B．The mystery about radiation remains unsolved.
C．Cancer is mainly caused by radiation.
D．Radiation can hurt those who do not know about its danger.
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