Passage 3
You’re at a party and you suddenly feel someone looking at you. But how can it be possible to feel another person’s gaze? It’s not like people shoot actual beams out of their eyes. Yet a new study suggests that, unconsciously, we actually do believe that looking exerts a slight force on the things being looked at. That eye-opening finding appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Vision depends on light entering the eye, a form of ocular intromission, if you will. But kids, even those in college, often express a belief in “extramission”, the idea that the eyes emit a form of invisible energy. To probe this perception, researchers at Princeton asked volunteers to look at a computer screen and gauge (估计,测量) the angle at which a cardboard tube which was shown being slowly tilted (倾斜) on its side and would finally topple over. Now, in some of the tests, they included an image of a young man watching the tube as it tilted toward him.
What the researchers found is that, when there was someone staring at the tube, subjects thought that the tube could tilt a little further before it toppled toward the person who was looking at it. That means unconsciously the volunteers must have imagined that the guy’s gaze exerted a slight force on the tube, keeping it from falling.
But this force was not strong. When the researchers replaced the cardboard tube with a brick, the subjects felt that the Jedi eye beams wouldn’t support the added weight. They said the brick would fail at the same angle, whether or not there was someone there to watch it
Interestingly, when the participants were explicitly asked about eyeball extramission, only 5 percent of them fessed (坦白) up to believing in some sort of force being exerted by the eyes. But deep down, it looks like many of us put stock in the awesome power of staring down. Just don’t depend on it if something weighty is about to fall your way.
81. What is the new study about?
A. Detecting the high-speed moving target by human eyes.
B. Interpreting the dream as an unconscious desire.
C. Comparing light and vision in the aquatic environment.
D. Measuring the strength of a person’s gaze.
82. What does “extramission” (Para. 2) refer to according to the passage?
A. Additional light entering the eyes. B. Some force from the eyes.
C. A strong commitment. D. Serious loss of vision.
83. The researchers tested people’s vision by making the objects they are looking at ______.
A. fallen down quickly B. tilted downwards
C. moved upwards D. floated away
84. When the researchers replaced the cardboard tube with a brick, they found that ______.
A. people believed that the gaze force was strong
B. people’s gaze could support the added weight
C. people’s gaze force could keep it from falling
D. people admitted that the brick would fall
85. What is the author’s attitude towards eyeball extramission?
A. Neutral B. Positive
C. Negative D. Not mentioned
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