Question

Have you ever had the strange feeling that you were being watched You turn around and ,sure enough, someone was looking right at you!

Parapsychologists(心灵学家) say that humans have a natural ability to sense when someone is looking at them. To research whether such a “ six sense” really exists, Robert Baker, a psychologist（心理学家） at the University of Kentucky, did two experiments.

In the first one, Baker sat behind unknowing people in public places and stared at the backs of their heads for 5 to 15 minutes. The subjects (受试者) were eating, drinking, reading, studying, watching TV, or working at a computer. Baker made sure that the people could not tell that he was sitting behind them during those periods. Later when he questioned the subjects, almost all of them said they had no sense that someone was staring at them.

For the second experiment, Baker told the subjects that they would be stared at from time to time from behind in a laboratory setting. The people had to write down when they felt they being stared at and when they weren’t. Baker found the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at and when they weren’t.

Baker concludes that people do not have the ability to sense when they are being stared at. If people doubt the outcome of his two experiments, said Baker, “I suggest they repeat the experiments and see for themselves.”

1.what’s the aim of the two experiments ？

A. To study whether humans can sense when they are stared at.

B. To explain when people can have a sixth sense

C. To  show how people act while being watched in the lab.

D. To Prove why humans have a sixth sense.

2.what sense does parapsychologists say that humans have to

A. A looking feeling        B. A natural staring ability

C. A strange thinking       D. A natural ability

3.The underlined word” outcome” in the last paragraph most probably means

A. value     B. performance

C. result    D. connection

4. What can we learn from the passage

A. People are born with a sixth sense.

B. The experiments support parapsychologists’ idea.

C. The subjects do not have a sixth sense in the experiments.

D. People have a sixth sense in all places.

Answer

1.A

2.A

3.C

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：短文大意：该短文主要介绍了两个测试第六感的实验，通过实验告诉我们第六感并不存在。

1.A细节理解题。根据第二段的To research whether such a “ six sense” really exists, Robert Baker, a psychologist（心理学家） at the University of Kentucky, did two experiments.可知两个实验的目的是探究是否存在第六感，所以选A。

2.A细节理解题。根据第二段中Parapsychologists(心灵学家) say that humans have a natural ability to sense when someone is looking at them.可知心灵学家说,人类有一种天然的感觉看出有人在看他的自然能力，所以选A。

3.C词义猜测题。根据If people doubt the outcome of his two experiments, said Baker, “I suggest they repeat the experiments and see for themselves.”可知“如果人们怀疑他的实验结果，”贝克说，“我建议他们重复试验，看看自己。”由此可知划线词的意思是“结果”，所以选C。

4.推理判断题。该短文主要介绍了两个测试第六感的实验，通过实验告诉我们第六感并不存在，所以选C。

考点：科普类短文阅读。