Read the text and answer the questions alongside it. SCEPTICAL MAGICIAN

Read the text and answer the questions alongside it. SCEPTICAL MAGICIAN Dr Robin West is a leading British parapsychologist who has spent much of his career investigating the paranormal Here, he recounts his experience of a seance in London. I started out as a professional magician. In a job like that, you soon develop interest in the supernatural and unexplained phenomena. However, I had never really believed in stories about contacting the spirits of the dead and had remained sceptical about seances. But Ive always been driven by curiosity and I decided to set up an experiment. I gathered a group of acquaintances together in London, and we decided to try to contact the spirit of a famous music-hall singer who was murdered around 1990. We sat in a circle round a table in a darkened room and held hands. It was -vital that we did not break the circle. It was a tense half hour. Luminous objects moved around the room and messages really arrived from the spirit world. For us all it was both terrifying and puzzling. We didnt have any idea what caused the objects to move. If I hadnt experienced it all first-хэнд, Im not sure whether I would have believed it. Now Im planning to investigate these mysteries more thoroughly. Experiments in Edinburgh have shown that human beings can communicate without using any of their five senses, so Im keen to do some research into telepathy. 1 Does the author mean that he is the only professional magician or he wants to say that he is one member of a professional group? 2 Does it mean all spirits or some particular ones? 3 What part of speech do you think it is? Why is the definite article used here? 4 Why is there no article? If we put the article here would it change the meaning? 5 Why has the article changed this way? 6 Could 39;some be replaced by aquot;?