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【单选题】Eastern medicines are becoming more popular in the west, but few people realize how long the two cultures have exchanged ideas. Now an exhibition at the Science Museum in London explores how the two have interacted on medicine through the centuries.
CalledEast Meets West: Medical Ideas on the Move. It looks at examples of how ideas and technologies have moved from one side of the world to another. It opens on Thursday and is based on an exhibition presented by the Welcome Trust; Neil Fazakerley is curator of the exhibition. He said: "It’s attractive because it’s taking a medical history story but from a slightly different angle, showing how the different cultures have interacte
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"It’s obvious that eastern medical practices are becoming more popular in the west but maybe people don’t know that ideas have been exchanged for thousands of years and medicine is not a static thing." The exhibition details four main areas:Ancient Greek and Islamic medical ideas, and how they were reborn into western culture. The exhibition starts in the ninth and tenth centuries whenBaghdad was the centre of Islamic science and its highly sophisticated medical system. Through the translation work of Persian scholars, ancient Greek medical thought was brought into the Islamic medical system. It was when westerners started charging into the east on crusades during the twelfth century thatEuropean scholars became increasingly interested in Islamic medicine.
Arabic material was translated into Latin, theEuropean scholars’ language of the time, thus preserving the Greek tradition that may otherwise have been lost.Coexistence of Islamic and Indian traditions and the development of western medicine in colonial India—the traditional Indian medical system, known as ayurveda or "the knowledge of life"—has existed in some form for more than 2,000 years.During foreign invasions from the eleventh century onwards the Islamic unani system of medicine was brought to IndiA、
The Indian name for Islamic medicine "unani" refers originally to the Greeks. The two systems complemented each other well and both ayurveda and unani flourish today in IndiA、European colonists from the sixteenth century onwards, gained knowledge of plants, diseases and surgical techniques that were unknown in the West. One such example is rauwolfia (萝芙木) serpentia (美蛇根), a plant used in traditional Indian medicine. The active ingredient is today used to treat hypertension and anxiety in the west. The flow of ideas turned with the growth of theBritishEmpire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as many Western-style hospitals and medical colleges were established in IndiA、
Inoculation—a true example of collaborative medicine.
"A、good example of the exchange of medical ideas between east and west is that of immunization," the exhibition says. Smallpox inoculation has long been used by physicians inAsia andAfrica by deliberately attempting to give people a mild smallpox infection. The technique became known inEurope in the eighteenth century and this technique was practiced for a while on theBritish aristocracy.
Which of the following is the best title for the whole passageA．The Influence of Medicine.

B、Ancient Greek and Islamic Medical Ideas.
Centuries of Medical Interaction.

D、Popular Medicine in theEast.

网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
[定位] 全文。 [解析] 主旨题。原文开头和结尾几次提到exchange，interact等词，首段末句总结了展览的主题是揭示东西方医药文化的相互作用，且接下来的几段都是围绕着展览的主题展开的，由此可知，本文主要介绍几世纪以来中西方在医学方面的相互作用，选项C概括最完整。 [点睛] 选项A的概括“医学的影响”范围太泛，且文章着重的是医学的exchange和interact，而不是influence，因此选项A不正确；选项B和D都只是原文的某些细节的片面概括。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>