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Seeing Hands 能看见东西的手 Several cases have been reported in Russia recently of people who can read and detect colours with their fingers, and even see through solid doors and walls. One case concerns an 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 curiou talent was brought to the notice 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 newspapers through an opaque screen and, stranger still, by moving her elbow over a child’s game of Lotto she was able to describe the fingers and colors printed on it; and, in another instance, wearing stockings and slippers, to make out with her foot the outlines and colors 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. New Words: safe n. 保险柜 opaque [?upeik] adj. 不透明的 lotto n. 一种有编号的纸牌 slipper n. 拖鞋 blindfold adj. 被蒙上眼睛的 Questions: How did Vera’s father accidentally discover that his daughter possessed unusual powers of perception? Under what conditions did Vera lose the ability to perceive objects with her fingers? Seeing Hands Ok , Class begin. Today we’ll come to a new lesson: lesson 4, Seeing Hands . so Wha