【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 11-16
F: When you walk into a building, are you able to sort of immediately sense whether it has good feng shui (风水) or not, a good flow of the ch'i(气)?
M: Yes, and so are you. Anytime you walk into any room, you get a feeling about it, whether you feel good about being there or not so good. So everyone has experienced good feng shui .Anytime they've walked into anybody's home or even an office where suddenly they think, "Oh, this is pleasant. I feel good. " You know, maybe their mood's a little peppier or maybethey're more relaxed, whatever. It's just a positive reaction you get when you're in the midst of good feng shui.
F：So, feng shui is exactly, what, a way of ordering buildings, rooms, corridors in your life to keep out evil spirits?
M: Well, I wouldn't say to keep out evil spirits. That sounds so superstitious. But I would say, it's a system of arranging all the objects around you at home or at work in such a way that they are in harmony and balance with nature in the way that feng shui teaches us to do... then, therefore, you are in harmony and balance, and so is your life.
F: Now this is something that's very important in Asia. In fact it's part of the architecture of buildings, how the staircases go up, where buildings are aligned. But what is your particular interest in it? You sound as if you have a Scandinavian background. I mean, is feng shui something important in Scandinavia?
M: Well, there's a huge digression coming. My name is Scandinavian. I was named for a Norwegian opera singer. I identify as Irish, though. So I don't know if there is any feng shui in Scandinavia. But their designs are so clean. I would suspect so. Yes, feng shui is huge in Asia.I believe it's practiced widely in mainland China, even though it's officially frowned upon as a superstition. But it's also huge here in the U. S. In Los Angeles, for instance, some peoplewould no more start working on a building project without a feng shui master than he would without a seismologist to tell him that the building would stay up in an earthquake. That's because these observations that amount to feng shui have developed over thousands of years.
F: That's quite true, as far as I know.
M: I know for instance that people in San Francisco, if a one-way street sign is put up pointing toward a house where there are some Chinese living, they can approach the city traffic signed partment and have the sign removed, not necessarily pointed back in the opposite direction ,but have the sign removed or at least not pointing at their house.
F: Did you choose your home because of feng shui?
M: We didn't choose our home because of feng shui. But I arranged my office at home according to feng shui, and it's a real basic example that illustrates a couple of principles. I am lucky enough to have a great view out the window at the far end of my office. And I was going to put my desk facing out the window, but I would've had my back to the door, which I don't feel good about… you know … it's not just feng shui, it's also a bad idea to sit with your back to the door. Anybody who comes into your office can surprise you. They surprise you with the things they have to say. You're constantly off guard. So I turned my desk, so that I still had the view atone hand and I had the door and the rest of the room at the other hand, and then I kind of pu tthe other furniture in the office where it worked around that. I've got a better floor plan than I would've figured out for myself.
Question No. 11 According to the man being interviewed, what's the function of feng shui?