单选题 A nine year old schoolgirl single handedly cooks up a science fair experiment that ends up debunking (揭……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 "IT 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"re 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 straight forward: 21 TT 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 TT is widely practiced?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。利用定位关键词可以定位到第二段“The claims are taken seriously enough that TT therapists are frequently hired by leading hospitals”，即“这种宣扬很受重视，以致TT行医者经常受雇于大的医院……”，所以选项C(TT治疗师经常受雇于大医院)与原文信息一致，其中原文的“frequently hired by leading hospitals”与题干中的“widely practiced”以及选项中的“often employed”为同义改写；选项A(TT已经存在了好多年了)文章中没有提及，选项B(许多病人被TT疗法治愈了)论述不准确，文中提到“据称这种方法能使人病隋好转，甚至说有的能治疗各种疾病”；选项D(有超过十万人都接受了TT治疗)与文章内容不符，原文的十万是指TT行医者(100,000 trained practitioners)而非病人。因而，该题的正确答案为C。

单选题 Very few TT practitioners responded to the $1 million offer because ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。利用定位关键词可以定位到文章第三段“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 Landi has offered more than $1 million to anyone who Can demonstrate the existence of a human energy field，即“为了提供这样一个证明，TT行医者不得不坐下来接受独立的测试——这是他们一直都不愿意做的事情，即使詹姆斯·兰迪为能演示人存在‘能量场’的人提供一百多万美元的奖金”，可知他们不愿意接受测试，由此推知选项C(他们不愿泄露秘密)与原文信息比较接近，其中原文的“not eager to”与选项的“unwilling to”为同义改写；其他选项A(他们没有认真对待这份奖金)、B(他们不想以他们的职业来冒险)、D(他们觉得这不符合他们的行医活动)都与原文不符。因而，该题的正确答案为C。

单选题 The purpose of Emily Rosa"s experiment was ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。利用定位关键词可以定位到第三段“Yet Rosa could not find any evidence that it works”，即“罗莎找不到其奏效的任何证据”，可见她想通过实验获取证据，而且文章最后一句说“If there was an energy field, they couldn"t feel it”(如果有一个能量场的话，他们也感觉不到)，由此可知选项D(检测是否存在能量场)与原文信息比较贴近；选项A(观察TT以其方式进行工作)，B(找出TT是如何治疗疾病的)两个选项也是错误的；选项C(检测其是否能感觉到能量场的存在)最具迷惑性，如果说是测试她能否感觉到能量场，那么前提是存在一个能量场，这与原文不符。因而，本题的答案为D。

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】[解析] 细节题。根据文章第三段“A skeptic might conclude that TT practitioners are afraid to lay their beliefs on the line. But who would turn down an innocent, fourth grader?”即“怀疑者可能认为TT行医者是害怕冒信仰风险，但谁能拒绝一个天真的四年级的小学生呢?”，由此推知选项行医者觉得Emily的实验不会有太大风险，所以选项D(他们感觉一个小女孩的实验不会有什么伤害)为正确答案。(转折结构往往是命题的重点)

单选题 What can we learn from the passage?

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 推断题。根据前面几道题目对全文大意的理解，特别是文章第一句“A nine year old schoolgirl single-handly cooks up a science fair experiment the ends up debunking a widely practiced medical treatment”，即“一个9岁的小女孩独自设计了一个公开的科学实验，结果揭穿了一种广为流行的医疗方法的真相”，可知选项A(广泛被接受的信仰可能是骗人的)为正确答案。