ATLANTA，Georgia— Alternative medicine— including yoga，meditation，herbs （草藥）and the Atkins diet（艾特金斯飲食法）—-appears to be growing in popularity in the United States, perhaps because of dissatisfaction with conventional（傳統(tǒng)的）care, the government said Thursday.

    More than a third of American adults used such practices in 2002，according to the government survey of 31，000 people，the largest study on non一conventional medical approaches in the United States. If prayer is included，about 62 percent of U. S. adults used some form of alternative medicine.

    The results seem to indicate more people are turning to alternative medicine，though the 2002 survey could not be directly compared to previous studies because of differences in size and survey methods，health officials said.

    The top alternative therapies（療法）included prayer (43 percent of adults) , natural products（19 percent），meditation（8 percent）and diets such as Atkins，Ornish，or the Zone （4 percent）．

    More people also are using natural products such as herbs or enzymes（酶）to treat chronic or recurring pain（慢性或經(jīng)常性疼痛），said Richard Nahin of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine，part of the National Institutes of Health.

    “Many conditions are not easily treated with conventional medicine，”Nahin said.“It may be the public that is turning to complementary（補(bǔ)充的）and alternative medicine because it's not getting relief from conventional medicine.”

But people should not be turning away from conventional treatments that are proven safe，said Dr. Stephen Straus，director of the alternative medicine center.

    “People are making individual decisions to neglect those therapies and we have concerns about those choices，”he said.

    Health officials said they were concerned that 13 percent of those surveyed said they turned to alternative medicine because regular medicine is too expensive.

“It needs to be explored—we need to find out whether they were insured or not” Nahin said.

    Health officials also were surprised that 6.6 percent of those surveyed used the supplement kava kava（卡瓦提取物，用來(lái)治療焦慮癥和憂郁癥），which has been associated with liver disease.

    “People make the assumption that because something is natural that it’s safe” Nahin said. “But a number of studies have shown that natural products can be unsafe when used inappropriately or with other drugs.”

    He said people considering using alternative medicine should consult their doctor first.

1．Which can be used as the proper title for the passage？

    A．Differences between alternative medicine and conventional medicine

    B．Comparison of the effects of different medicine

    C．Conventional care remains to be most acceptable

    D．Alternative medicine becomes more popular

2．From the passage we know that most people choose alternative medicine          ．

    A．because it has been proven safe to take

    B．because experts confirm it all-sidedly

    C．because they are not content with the conventional medicine

    D．because conventional medicine is expensive

3．What can probably be inferred from the passage？

    A．Most patients are blind in taking alternative medicine or conventional care.

    B．Experts still haven't drawn an all-round and exact conclusion about alternative medicine.

    C．Alternative medicine will eventually take place of conventional care.

    D．Natural herbs are safer than the medicine processed by man.

4．Which of the following agrees with the article？

    A．Experts will carry out further studies on alternative medicine．

    B．Health officials worry about using the alternative medicine will be removed.

    C．The supplement kava kava is more effective to anxiety disease.

    D．Natural products have an advantage over conventional care.

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