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  3. Just seven years ago, the Jarvik-7 artificial heart was being cheered as the model of human creativeness. The sight of Barney Cl

Just seven years ago, the Jarvik-7 artificial heart was being cheered as the model of human creativeness. The sight of Barney Cl

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问题     Just seven years ago, the Jarvik-7 artificial heart was being cheered as the model of human creativeness. The sight of Barney Clark—alive and conscious after trading his diseased heart for a metal-and-plastic pump— convinced the press, the public and many doctors that the future had arrived. It hadn’t. After monitoring production of the Jarvik-7, and reviewing its effects on the 150 or so patients (most of whom got the device as a temporary measure) the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded that the machine was doing more to endanger lives than to save them. Last week the agency cancelled its earlier approval, effectively banning (禁止) the device.
    The recall may hurt Symbion Inc., maker of the Jarvik-7, but it won’t end the request for an artificial heart. One problem with the banned model is that the tubes connecting it to an external power source created a passage for infection. Inventors are now working on new devices that would be fully placed, along with a tiny power pack, in the patient’s chest. The first sample products aren’t expected for another 10 of 20 years. But some people are already worrying that they’ll work—and that America’s overextended health-care programs will lose a precious $2.5 billion to $5 billion a year providing them for a relatively few dying patients. If such expenditures (开支) cut into funding for more basic care, the net effect could actually be a decline in the nation’s health.
According to the passage the Jarvik-7 artificial heart proved to be _____.
选项 A、a technical failure
B、a technical wonder
C、a good life-saver
D、an effective means to treat heart disease
答案A
解析 文章一开头说Jarvik-7以前被认为是一大技术成就，但文章第1段倒数第2句中提到，美国食品与药品管理局得出结论，认为这种仪器与其说是挽救生命，不如说是将生命置于更加危险的境地。由此可知Jarvik-7是一个技术失败．故选A。
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