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Part V: Practice-Review-Analyze-Practice
The physics community, for its part, took little
public notice of the affair — except for
Robert Parks of the American Physical
Society, who derisively termed the meeting a
“seance of true believers.” And after three
days of presentations and debate, an independent
observer was left with several
conclusions:
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That some new evidence has accumulated
in the last year supporting the
reality of cold fusion, particularly
from the prestigious U.S. Department
of Energy laboratories.
That most observers outside the field
are still not ready to accept that
evidence.
And that another year or two is going
to be necessary for cold fusion to
be either vindicated or finally
discredited.
23. The alleged success of the
Pons/Fleischmann cold fusion
experiment was remarkable because it
seemed to promise all the following
except:
A. a low-cost source of energy
B. an energy source that was not
dependent on fossil fuels
C. an energy source based on
materials in large supply
D. an energy source that could be
produced only in the United States
E. an energy source with no
dangerous side effects
24. According to the passage, most
experiments that attempted to reproduce
the results claimed by Pons and
Fleischmann were
A. wholly successful.
B. partially successful.
C. unsuccessful.
D. not exact reproductions of the
Pons/Fleischmann experiment.
E. the source of unexpected
developments in cold fusion theory.
25. Which of the following best describes
the judgment of most chemists and
physicists on the Pons/Fleischmann
cold fusion claims four months after
their announcement?
A. They supported the
Pons/Fleischmann claims.
B. The were guardedly skeptical about
the Pons/Fleischmann claims.
C. They were sharply divided in their
response to the Pons/Fleischmann
claims.
D. They rejected the
Pons/Fleischmann claims.
E. They had no opinion on the
Pons/Fleischmann claims.
26. Robert Parks’s reference to the meeting
of cold fusion advocates as a “seance of
true believers” suggests his view of the
supporters of cold fusion as
A. dedicated scientists.
B. unscientific zealots.
C. disinterested observers.
D. religious scholars.
E. defiant researchers.
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