文章作者 100test 发表时间 2008:05:20 10:10:04
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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)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
Yet
The experiment was straightforward: 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.
21. We learn from the first paragraph that two systems of automated highways __________.
A) are being planned
B) are being modified
C) are now in wide use
D) are under construction
注:on the drawing borad就是planned
22. A special-purpose lane system is probably advantageous in that ________________.
A) it would require only minor changes to existing highways
B) it would achieve the greatest highway traffic efficiency
C) it has a lane for both automated and partially automated vehicles
D) it offers more lanes for automated vehicles
注:A选项说反了
23. Which of the following is true about driving on an automated highway?
A) Vehicles traveling on it are assigned different lanes according to their destinations.
B) A car can join existing traffic any time in a mixed lane system.
C) The driver should inform his car computer of his destination before driving onto it.
D) The driver should share the automated lane with those f regular vehicles.
注:对应第二段开头
24. We know form the passage that a car can enter a special-purpose lane _____________.
A) by smoothly merging with cars on the conventional lane
B) by way of a ramp with electronic control devices
C) through a specially guarded gate
D) after all trespassers are identified and removed
注:争议题
25. When driving in an automated lane, the driver ___________.
A) should harmonize with newly entering cars
B) doesn t have to rely on his computer system
C) should watch out for potential accidents
D) doesn t have to hold not to the steering wheel
注:文章最后一段
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