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Passage Two Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage. 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 Rosas target was a practice known as therapeutic(治疗的)touch, whose advocates manipulate patients energy field to make them feel better and even, say some, to cure them of various ills. Yet Emilys test shows that these energy fields cant 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 doesnt matter. Its good science that matters, and this is good science. Emilys 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 dont even touch their patients. Instead, they waved their hands a few inches from the patients body, pushing energy fields around until theyre 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. | 
