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The body works like an automatic furnace, which heats up and cools down to maintain a constant temperature. When it puts out a lot more or a lot less heat than usual, the body may be trying to tell you there is a problem. It is when we go to a doctor or a pharmacist. For more than 100 years, $98.6^\circ\text{F}$ has been considered the normal human body temperature. But recently, a Stanford University research study, based on some 677,000 temperature readings collected from 190,000 people, points out that from 1862 to 2017, the human body temperature fell by $0.054^\circ\text{F}$ and $0.052^\circ\text{F}$ per decade for males and females, respectively. The change in average height and weight is the possible explanation for some of the decline, because nowadays people have better nutrition, medical service, and public health. Most importantly, the effective use of antibiotics and vaccines control many of the inflammatory conditions that can drive up body temperature. The function of inflammation is to eliminate the cause of cell injury and initiate tissue repair. Besides, when people are ill, they usually take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and statins to fight inflammation, therefore preventing the body from heating up. The findings suggest doctors should practice more personalized temperature readings that take all the things that affect body temperature into consideration, such as height, weight, age, time of day and outside temperature.
The body works like an automatic furnace, which heats up and cools down to maintain a constant temperature. When it puts out a lot more or a lot less heat than usual, the body may be trying to tell you there is a problem. It is when we go to a doctor or a pharmacist. For more than 100 years, $98.6^\circ\text{F}$ has been considered the normal human body temperature. But recently, a Stanford University research study, based on some 677,000 temperature readings collected from 190,000 people, points out that from 1862 to 2017, the human body temperature fell by $0.054^\circ\text{F}$ and $0.052^\circ\text{F}$ per decade for males and females, respectively. The change in average height and weight is the possible explanation for some of the decline, because nowadays people have better nutrition, medical service, and public health. Most importantly, the effective use of antibiotics and vaccines control many of the inflammatory conditions that can drive up body temperature. The function of inflammation is to eliminate the cause of cell injury and initiate tissue repair. Besides, when people are ill, they usually take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and statins to fight inflammation, therefore preventing the body from heating up. The findings suggest doctors should practice more personalized temperature readings that take all the things that affect body temperature into consideration, such as height, weight, age, time of day and outside temperature.
What is the best title for this passage?
- A Do not Ignore Abnormal Inflammation
- B Maintaining a Normal Temperature
- C Why Human Body Temperature Drops
- D Temperature Tells You Everything
- E Your Age and Your Temperature
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請觀察文章的第二段與第三段，第二段給出了一組關於數據變化的趨勢，而第三段緊接著提到了許多現代生活的改變（如營養、醫藥、疫苗）。請問，作者列舉這些現代生活的改變，是為了要解釋哪一個具體的數據現象呢？
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太棒了！你能精準選出 (C) 作為標題，代表你已經成功掌握了這篇文章的核心論點。這類題目考驗的是「主旨歸納能力」，而你展現了非常敏銳的觀察力。
掌握主旨的關鍵：從現象到成因
這篇文章的結構非常嚴謹，首先以恆溫系統做比喻，隨後引用史丹佛大學的研究數據，指出人類體溫在過去百年間每十年下降約 $0.054^\circ\text{F}$。文章最核心的部分在於第三段，作者詳細解釋了這種下降（decline）的原因，包括營養改善、醫學進步，以及最重要的——抗生素與疫苗對發炎（inflammation）的有效控制。因此，(C) 選項「為何人類體溫會下降」完美地連結了研究發現與背後的科學解釋，是全文的靈魂中心。
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