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A nine-year-old schoolgirl single-handedly cooks up a science-fair experiment that ends up debunking (揭穿......的真相) a widely practiced medical treatment. Emily Rosa''s target was a practice known as therapeutic (治疗的) touch (TT for short), whose advocates manipulate patients'' "energy field" to make them feel better and even, say some, to cure them of various ills. Yet Emily''s test shows that these energy fields can''t be detected, even by trained TT practitioners (行医者). Obviously mindful of the publicity value of the situation, Journal editor George Lundberg appeared on TV to declare, "Age doesn''t matter. It''s good science that matters, and this is good science."
Emily''s mother Linda Rosa, a registered nurse, has been campaigning against TT for nearly a decade. Linda first thought about TT in the late 80s, when she learned it was on the approved list for continuing nursing education in Colorado. Its 100,000 trained practitioners (48,000 in the U. S. ) don''t even touch their patients. Instead, they waved their hands a few inches from the patient''s body, pushing energy fields around until they are in "balance." TT advocates say these manipulations can help heal wounds, relieve pain and reduce fever. The claims are taken seriously enough that TT therapists are frequently hired by leading hospitals, at up to $ 70 an hour, to smooth patients'' energy, sometimes during surgery.
Yet Rosa could not find any evidence that it works. To provide such proof, TT therapists would have to sit down for independent testing -- something they haven''t been eager to do, even though James Randi has offered more than $1 million to anyone who can demonstrate the existence of a human energy field. (He''s had one taker so far. She failed. ) A skeptic might conclude that TT practitioners are afraid to lay their beliefs on the line. But who could turn down an innocent fourth-grader? Says Emily: "I think they didn''t take me very seriously because I''m a kid."
The experiment was straightforward: 21 TV therapists stuck their hands, palms up, through a screen. Emily held her own hand over one of theirs -- left or right -- and the practitioners had to say which hand it was. When the results were recorded, they''d done no better than they would have by simply guessing. If there was an energy field, they couldn''t feel it.
单选题
Which of the following is evidence that TV is widely practiced?
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】辨认事实题。题目询问下面哪一个陈述是触摸疗法行医者大行其道的证据。根据文章第2段“TT therapists are frequently hired by leading hospitals，at up to $70 an hour，to smooth patients’energy，sometimes during surgery(大医院常常高薪，高至一小时70美元，聘请一些TT行医者疏通患者的能量，有时在动手术时也如此)”，A项无法说明其大行其道；B项与文章所陈述的意思相背；C项与文中所陈述的事实相符；D项与文中意思不符，文中只提到有100,000人接受过触摸疗法培训。
单选题
Very few TV practitioners responded to the $1 million offer because ______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】辨认事实题。题目询问几乎没有TT行医者回应这100万美元的原因是什么。根据文章第3段“A skeptic might conclude that TT practitioners are afraid to lay their beliefs on the line. (对触摸疗法有疑心的人可以断定，TT行医者是害怕危及他们对这个行业的信念)”，A项与文意不相符合；B项他们不愿以职业来冒险与文中所给的意思相符，因为如果接受测试，谎话必然被揭穿，他们无法继续“工作”下去；C项有一定的迷惑性，但没有点出直接的原因；D项与文章所给的意思不符。
单选题
The purpose of Emily Rosa''s experiment was ______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】推断题。题目询问Emily Rosa做此实验的目的是______。根据文章第1段“Yet Emily''s test shows that these energy fields can''t be detected，even by trained TT practitioners(然而Emily的实验表明根本测不出这些能量场的存在，即使是训练有素的TT行医者也如此)”和文章第4段“If there was an energy field，they couldn''t feel it(即使有能量场，他们也感受不到)”，因此，D项与文章所陈述的内容相符；A项和B项井非Emily做实验的真正目的，与题意不符；C项信息在文章中并没有提及。
单选题
Why did some TT practitioners agree to be the subjects of Emily''s experiment?
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】辨认事实题。题目询问一些TT行医者愿意做Emily实验的对象的原因。根据文章第3段最后一句“But who could turn down an innocent fourth-grader? Says Emily：‘I think they didn''t take me very seriously because I''m a kid. ’(但谁会拒绝一个天真的四年级小女孩呢?Emily说：“因为我是小孩，所以我想他们并不会把我当回事，)”，因此，在四个选项中，只有D项与文章所给的内容相符。