請依下文回答第 16 題至第 20 題：
Much has been written about feng shui in English. At present time, the year of 2012, there are over 300 separate
titles in English and many thousands of websites on the subject. Yet 25 years ago the subject was virtually unheard of
in the United States and very difficult to discover amongst Western-educated Chinese. Before that there were only
books written by missionaries and colonial administrators living in the nineteenth century. Western interest was
probably sparked by my first book, The Living Earth Manual of Feng Shui, which was written in 1976 when most
material on feng shui was still available only in Chinese. Feng shui did not however become “dinner party
conversation” until the late 1980s, and Lillian Too did much to popularize it in the 1990s in the Western worlds.
However, when interest in feng shui did finally gather speed, because of the lack of source material, many
well-meaning teachers and writers seemed to forget that it is a really precise and exacting subject, and extended it in
ways not originally part of its traditional Chinese roots. Now, although any science can be extended by new research
and testing, this has got to be done with a full knowledge of all that has gone before. It is sometimes forgotten that feng
shui is not a branch of interior decorating, but a practical science in its own right. To put not too fine a point on it, a lot
of later-day Western feng shui has been simplified beyond the point where it works, or has been invented or “intuited.”
Often intuition has provided a key or a direction in which to look, but it is never sufficient in itself to declare “it must
be so” because I feel it to be so. It therefore came as a delight and a breath of fresh air when I laid my hands on the new
project about feng shui.
【題組】18 According to the author, what is feng shui?
(A)A dinner party conversation.
(B)An interior decoration.
(C)A practical science.
(D)A source material.
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