重学新概念第四册
Lesson 4 Seeing hands 能看见东西的手
Several cases have been reported in Russia recently of people who can detect colours with their fingers , and even see through solid and walls . One case concerns a eleven - year - old schoolgirl , Vera Petrova , who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin , and through solid walls . This ability was first noticed by her father . One day she came into his office and happened to put her hands on the door of a locked safe . Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there , and even described the way they were done up in bundles .
Vera ' s curious talent was brought to the potire of a scientific research institute in the town of Ulyanovsk , near where she lives , and in April she was given a series of tests by a special commission of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federal Republic . During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an opaque / u ' pesk / screen and , stranger still , by moving her elbow over a child ' s game of Lotto she was able to describe the figures and colours printed on it ; and , in another instance , wearing stockings and slippers , to make out with her foot the outlines and colours of a picture hidden under a carpet . Other experiments showed that her knees and shoulders had a similar sensitivity . During all these tests Vera was blindfold ; and , indeed , except when blindfold she lacked the ability to perceive things with her skin . It was also found that although she could perceive things with her fingers this ability ceased the moment her hands were wet .
Eric de Mauny Seeing hands from The Listener
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