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2017年雅思考试阅读理解每日一练 　　If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesnrsquo;t lead anywhere.以下是小编为大家搜索整理的2017年雅思考试阅读理解每日一练，希望能给大家带来帮助!更多精彩内容请及时关注我们应届毕业生! 　　Lighting Up The Lies 　　You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage below. 　　Last year Sean A. Spence, a professor at the school of medicine at the University of Sheffield in England, performed brain scans that showed that a woman convicted of poisoning a child in her care appeared to be telling the truth when she denied committing the crime. This deception study, along with two others performed by the Sheffield group, was funded by Quickfire Media, a television production company working for the U.K.#39;s Channel 4, which broadcast videos of the researchers at work as part of a three-part series called Lie Lab. The brain study of the woman later appeared in the journal European Psychiatry. 　　Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) purports to detect mendacity by seeing inside the brain instead of tracking peripheral measures of anxietymdash;such as changes in pulse, blood pressure or respiration mdash;measured by a polygraph. Besides drawing hundreds of thousands of viewers, fMRI has pulled in entrepreneurs. Two companiesmdash;Cephos in Pepperell, Mass., and No Lie MRI in Tarzana, Calif.mdash;claim to predict with 90 percent or greater certitude whether you are telling the truth. No Lie MRI, whose name evokes the casual familiarity of a walk-in dental clinic in a strip mall, suggests that the technique may even be used for ldquo;risk reduction in datingrdquo;. 　　Many neuroscientists and legal scholars doubt such claimsmdash;and some even question whether brain scans for lie detection will ever be ready for anything but more research on the nature of deception and the brain. An fMRI machine tracks blood flow to activated brain areas. The assumption in lie detection is that the brain must exert extra effort when telling a lie and that the regions that do more wor