黑龙江省牡丹江一中2014-2015学年高二上学期期末试题 英语
第一部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40 分)
第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项。
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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(灵学家) 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(心理学家) at the University of Kentucky, performed 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 a two-way mirror 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 found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were started at than if they had just guessed.
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 purpose 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. prove why humans have a sixth sense D. study whether humans can sense when they are stared at
2. In the first experiment, the subjects ________.
A. were not sure when they would be stared at B. lost their sense when they were stared at
C. were not told that they would be stared at D. were uncomfortable when they were stared at
