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　　(2014·河南洛陽高三期末)

　　Some people are happy to believe in ESP (第六感覺) while others are firm disbelievers.

　　Parapsychologists, who lend a certain seriousness to the subject, have identified four types of ESP: clairvoyance describes the act of being able to obtain knowledge of a person or event without the use of the normal senses; telepathy is the process by which a person is able to read another person's thoughts without the use of any of the normal senses; psychokinesis is the ability to influence a physical object just by thinking about it; precognition is the term applied when somebody is able to foresee future events.

　　Over the years there have been many ESP experiments conducted by serious scientists in serious institutions. Joseph Banks Rhine, a botanist at Duke University published a famous book in 1934 called “Extra­Sensory Perception” in which he claimed to have overwhelming (壓倒性的) evidence of ESP. However, other scientists have been unable to repeat his results exactly in the same way, which has resulted in the book losing much of its original reliability(可靠性).

　　The Granzfield experiments are considered to have been the most carefully examined ESP experiments.The experimenters had their eyes covered and ears blocked while a “sender” attempted to transmit messages.Later the experimenters would compare the messages received to the original messages sent out.There was a great deal of excitement and interest at the time but the research failed to produce convincing results.

　　Human beings are attracted to the supernatural phenomena. ESP will always continue to fascinate. Some of the most successful films in recent years have fuelled interest among the younger generations who are starting to ask the same questions and to look for explanations for the same phenomena as their parents and grandparents before them. Who knows? One day we might just find these answers because one thing is certain, “The truth is out there!”

　　9. According to the passage, Rhine's book ________.

　　A.was accepted by famous scientists in ESP field

　　B.presented the first­hand evidence against ESP

　　C.wasn't trusted and believed by the public

　　D.truly proved results of the experiments

　　10. In Paragraph 3 and 4, the author wants to show ________.

　　A.what resulted in people's disbelief

　　B.who were involved in the experiments

　　C.why people accepted ESP

　　D.how seriously the experiments were conducted

　　11. The author's attitude towards ESP is ________.

　　A.objective B.defensive

　　C.supportive D.persuasive

　　答案：

　　【語篇解讀】　這是一篇科普文。人們對(duì)于第六感覺這一超自然的現(xiàn)象很感興趣，但遺憾的是，迄今為止人們沒能證明第六感覺是否存在，只有時(shí)間能告訴我們這個(gè)問題的答案。

　　9.C　解析：細(xì)節(jié)理解題。第三段說，Rhine在1934年寫了一本書，宣稱他掌握了關(guān)于第六感存在的大量證據(jù)，但其他科學(xué)家用同樣的方式去研究卻不能得到與他一樣的結(jié)果，于是這本書就失去了可靠性(the book losing much of its original reliability)，由此可知選C，他的書不被公眾接受。

　　10.A　解析：推理判斷題。第三、四段講述了兩個(gè)研究，這兩個(gè)研究在當(dāng)時(shí)轟動(dòng)一時(shí)，但都沒有得出讓人相信的證據(jù)或結(jié)果，因此選A。

　　11.A　解析：推理判斷題。最后一段作者說，人們對(duì)第六感這一超自然的現(xiàn)象很感興趣，還在尋找解釋，或許有一天我們能找到解釋，因?yàn)橛幸稽c(diǎn)是確定的，“事實(shí)的真相擺在那里”。由此可以看出，作者只相信事實(shí)的真相，沒有直接肯定或否定這一現(xiàn)象的存在，因此選A。