Which one of the options does NOT describe the passage below or follow from it?
We tend to think of cancer as a 'modern' illness because its metaphors are so modern. It is a disease of overproduction, of sudden growth, a growth that is unstoppable, tipped into the abyss of no control. Modern cell biology encourages us to imagine the cell as a molecular machine. Cancer is that machine unable to quench its intial command (to grow) and thus transform into an indestructible, self-propelled automaton.
[Adapted from The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee]
- It is a reflection of why cancer seems so modern to most of us
- It tells us that modern cell biology uses and promotes metaphors of machinery
- Modern cell biology encourages metaphors of machinery, and cancer is often imagined as a machine
- Modern cell biology never uses figurative language, such as metaphors, to describe or explain anything.
