81. Health skin lies in ____.
- a well-kept balance between two working processes
- the two processes of breaking down skin cells
- a fine balance in the number of cigarettes
- the two steps of forming collagen
82. For the Japanese scientists, to test their idea is ____.
- to verify the aging of human beings
- to find out the mechanism of renewing skin
- to prove the two processes of wrinkle formation
- to confirm the hazards of smoking proven otherwise
83. The Japanese scientists tested their ideas using ____.
- MMPs to form fresh collagen
- cigarette smoke to contaminate skin cells
- human fibroblasts to produce fresh collagen
- non-smokers to be exposed to cigarette smoke
84. As inferred from Morita's results, smoking ____.
- could stimulate the production of fresh collagen
- is unlikely to promote the production of MMP
- tends to cause skin to age prematurely
- may cause collagen to die by 60%
85. Morita implies that his findings ____.
- took less time than expected
- were hard to accept in dermatology
- were not exclusively based on the lab
- need to be further verified in the human body
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