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共用题干 第二篇Therapeutic TouchA nine-year-ol

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问题 共用题干第二篇

Therapeutic Touch

A nine-year-old schoolgirl single-handedly cooks up a science-fair equipment that ends up debunking a widely practiced medical treatment.Emily Rosa's target was a practice known as therapeutic touch(TF 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.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 approval list for continuing nursing deduction 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"．竹advocates say these manipulations can help heal wounds,relative pain and reduce fever. The claims are taken seriously enough that竹 therapists are frequently hired by leading hospitals,at up to $70 an hour,to smooth patients' energy,sometimes during surgery.
Yet Rosa cold not find any evidence that it works.To provide such proof,TT therapists would have to sit down for independent testing一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 has 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 forth-grader? Says Emily:"I think they didn't take me very seriously because I am a kid."
The experiment was straightforward;21 Ti' therapists stuck their hands,palms up,through a screen.Emily held her own hand over one of their left or right一and the practitioners had to say which hand it was.When the results were recorded,they had done no better than they would have by simply guessing. If there was an energy field,they wouldn't feel it.Why did some TT practitioners agree to be the subjects of Emily's experiment?A:It involved nothing more than mere guessing.B:They thought it was going to be a lot of fun.C:It was more straightforward than other experiments.D:They sensed no harm in a little girl's experiment.
选项 Why did some TT practitioners agree to be the subjects of Emily's experiment?
A:It involved nothing more than mere guessing.
B:They thought it was going to be a lot of fun.
C:It was more straightforward than other experiments.
D:They sensed no harm in a little girl's experiment.
答案 D
解析 根据本文第二段最后一句：“这种宣扬很受重视，以致竹行医者经常受雇于业内领先的医院……”A项文章中没有提及。B项叙述不准确，本文只是说这种方法可能使人病情好转，甚至说有时能治疗各种疾病。D项与本文内容不符。故选项A、B、D均不是本题答案。
根据本文第三段第二句：“为了提供这样一个证明（证明人有‘能量场’), TT行医者不得不坐下接受独立的测验，这是他们不太愿意做的事情，即使James Randi为能演示人存在‘能量场’的人提供100多万美元的奖金。”
由本文第一段我们知道，竹行医者所宣扬的就是通过调节病人的“能量场”来治病。在第二段中，又提到这种手法可以推动能场转动直到平衡，而Emily Rosa的实验就是证明是否能量场真正存在。特别是文章最后一句指出“如果有一个能量场的话，他们也感觉不到”。C项说是测试她能否感觉到能场，如果是这样的话则前提是存在一个能场，这显然是错误的。A、B两个选项也是错误的。
本文第三段最后三句指出“怀疑的人或许会认为TT行医者害怕自己的信仰冒这种风险。但谁能拒绝一个天真的四年级小学生呢？Emily说：‘我想他们不会太把我当回事，因为我是个小孩子。’”
本文第一句就是主题句，其意思是“一个九岁小女孩独自设计了一个科学、公正的设施，结果揭穿了一种广泛应用的医疗方法的真相。”
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