Question

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

Parapsychologists (靈學家) say that humans have a natural ability to sense when someone is looking at them. To research whether such a “sixth sense” really exists, Robert Baker, a psychologist (心理學家) 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（受試者）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 were being stared at and when they weren’t. Baker found that 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’re 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.The aim of the two experiments is to ________.

A．explain when people can have a sixth sense

B．show how people act while being watched in the lab

C．study whether humans can sense when they are stared at

D．prove why humans have a sixth sense

2.The underlined word “outcome” in the last paragraph most probably means ________.

A．value             B．result             C．performance       D．connection

3. In the second experiment, the subjects _________.

A．could tell when they were stared at and when they weren’t.

B．could tell when they were stared at but couldn’t tell when they weren’t.

C．couldn’t tell when they were stared at but could tell when they weren’t.

D．couldn’t tell when they were stared at or when they weren’t.

4.What can be learned 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

【答案】

1.C

2.B

3.D

4.C

【解析】

試題分析：本文主要講述了一位心理學家通過兩個實驗來驗證人們沒有第六感覺的事。

1.根據(jù)第二段中的內(nèi)容可知，做這兩個實驗就是為了驗證人們是否能感覺到有人在看他們。所以本題選C。

2.根據(jù)文章的意思，此處應該是“結果”的意思，故用result。所以本題選D。

3.根據(jù)Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at and when they weren’t. 可知，本題應該選D。

4.根據(jù)Baker concludes that people do not have the ability to sense when they’re being stared at.可知，人們是沒有第六感覺的。所以本題選C。

考點：本題考查科普類閱讀

點評：閱讀時，主要兩個實驗的不同及其目的和結論。因為在題目中有兩個題目：第一和第四小題就是考察這兩個反面的。閱讀時，還應該注意文章的對細節(jié)的描述，并進行合理的推測。