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Key to Unit Seven Text Comprehension Decide which of the following best states the author’s purpose. B Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true. F. It could be practiced by any group of people, including well-educated ones. Refer to paragraph 2. T. Refer to paragraph 5. T. Refer to paragraph 7. F. Superstition, unbidden and persistent , makes its appearance very early in people’s life, while religion may lose its appeal to people when its formal teaching declines. Besides, people may have different religious beliefs, while superstition is indifferent to race or creed. Refer to paragraph 8 an 9. T. Refer to paragraph 11. Answer the questions. According to the author，superstition is not taken as a serious challenge to reason and science and is merely deplored. By comparison, other irrationals such as parapsychology, UFOs, miracle cures, transcendental meditation and all the paths to instant enlightment are condemned. According to the author, superstition may have a history as long as any chronicle of human behavior. Superstition, by definition, is related with people’s terror which they cannot root out, nor do they want to do so. Superstition appears naturally in one’s early life and its impact tends to persist, while the impact of religion may diminish when god becomes a watchful, minatory power. Superstition has arisen from a depth of the human mind and can be adopted and practiced by all people regardless of their races and creeds, while religions have no place for such comforting little ceremonies and charities. the author intends to say that science could do little to change people’s belief in superstition. Superstition is as popular today in the Western world as in Roman times. People are fascinated with superstition because they yearn to know their fate and wish to have some control over it. Explain in your own words. Religion seems to be a watchful dog with a threatening appearance and becomes less comforting when it loses it