【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 utic(治療的) touch (TT for short), whose advocates manipulate patients39。 energy fieldto make them feel better and even, say some, to cure them of various ills. Yet Emily39。s test shows that these energy fields can39。t be detected, even by trained TT practitioners (行醫(yī)者). Obviously mindful of the publicity value of the situation, Journal editor George Lundberg appeared on TV to declare, Age doesn39。t matter. It39。s good science that matters, and this is good science. Emily39。s mother Linda Rosa, a registered nurse, has been campaigning against TT for nearly a decade. Linda first thought about TT in the late 39。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.) don39。t even touch their patients. Instead, they waved their hands a few inches from the patient39。s body, pushing energy fields around until they39。 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 patients39。 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 testingsomething they haven39。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. (He39。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 innocentfourthgrader? Says Emily:I think they didn39。t take me very seriously because I39。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, they39。d done no better than they would have by simply guessing. If there was an energy field, they couldn39。t feel it. 1. Which of the following is evidence that TT is widely practiced? A) TT has been in existence for decades. B) Many patients were cured by therapeutic touch. C) TT therapists are often employed by leading hospitals. D) More than 100,000 people are undergoing TT treatment.  2. Very few TT practitioners responded to the $1 million offer because ________. A) they didn39。t take the offer seriously B) they didn39。t want to risk their career C) they were unwilling to reveal their secret D) they thought it was not in line with their practice  3. The purpose of Emily Rosa39。s experiment was ________. A) to see why TT could work the way it did B) to find out how TT cured patients39。 illnesses C) to test whether she could sense the human energy field D) to test whether a human energy field really existed  4. Why did some TT practitioners agree to be the subjects of Emil39。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 girl39。s experiment.  5. What can we learn from the passage? A) Some widely accepted beliefs can be deceiving. B) Solid evidence weighs more than pure theories. C) Little children can be as clever as trained TT practitioners. D) The principle of TT is too profound to understand.1小題、【正確答案】：C2小題、【正確答案】：C3小題、【正確答案】：D4小題、【正確答案】：D5小題、【正確答案】：A【參考解析】：無第33題：What might driving on an automated highway be like? The answer depends on what kind of system is ultimately adopted. Two distinct types are on the drawing board. The first is a specialpurpose lane system, in which certain lanes are reserved for automated vehicles. The second is a mixed traffic system: fully automated vehicles would share the road with partially automated or manual driven cars. A specialpurpose lane system would require more extensive physical modifications to existing highways, but it promises the greatest gains in freeway（高速公路）capacity. Under either scheme, the driver would specify the desired destination, furnishing this information to a puter in the car at the beginning of the trip or perhaps just before reaching the automated highway. If a mixed traffic system way was in place, automated driving could begin whenever the driver was on suitably equipped roads. If specialpurpose lanes were available, the car could enter them and join existing traffic in two different ways. One method would use a special onramp(入口引道). As the driver approached the point of entry for the highway, devices install ed on the roadside would electronically check the vehicle to determine its destinati on and to ascertain that it