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A nine-year-old schoolgirl single-handedly cooks up a science fair experiment that ends up debunking a widely practiced medical treatment．Emily Rosa's target was a practice known as therapeutic 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． 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 experimem 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．
What was the so-called therapeutic touch about?
A．Curing patients' diseases through special sensors．
B．Treating patients with mental health problems with touching．
C．Helping build patients' energy ield for them to get rid of diseases．
D．Manipulating patients' energy field to make them feel better or recovered．
第二段指出这种疗法因其鼓吹能够通过操纵病人的“能量场”改善病情而在许多地区大行其道。
第三段揭示了事情的原委：因为接触疗法的行医者拒绝接受独立测试，一直以来没有人能够证实这种疗法疗效的真实性。埃米莉的简单实验之所以成功是由于其年龄使得行医者放松警惕，同意参加测试。
最后一段叙述了事情的结果。
D。本题的出题点在定语从句处。根据题干信息词therapeutic touch可将答案锁定在文章第一段。第一段介绍了接触疗法的作用原理，原文第二句提到，埃米莉·罗莎的研究目标是一个叫做“接触疗法”的治疗方法，其鼓吹者通过操纵病人的“能量场”来使病人感到舒服些，甚至治愈他们的各种疾病。原文使用了whose引导的非限制性定语从句说明“接触疗法”的具体内容，D项符合原文所述，故为答案。
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A．It had been in existence for at least a decade．
B．It was usually practiced to relieve pain of the patient．
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A．They would not get financial benefitsom the test．
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A．Each participator would be offered a good reward．
B．The girl said she was going to play games with them．
C．The experiment was straightforwardly participated．
D．They sensed no harm in a little girl's experiment．
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