2012六级阅读指导:科学证实人有第六感

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It has long been known as ESP, Spider Sense, or the ability to see things before they happen.

一直以来,第六感也被称为超感知觉、蜘蛛感应,也就是预知未来事物的能力。

But now scientists have proved that human really do have a sixth sense - that lets them detect magnetic fields.

但现在科学家已证实人类确实有第六感,正是这第六感让人类能够感应到磁场。

Tests have shown that mankind may have the same innatesense of Earth's magnetic field that has long been proved to exist in animals.

试验表明,人类可能像其他动物一样拥有能够感知地球磁场的先天感应力,而动物的这一感应力在很久以前就被证实了。

By putting a protein from the human retinainto fruit flies, researchers noticed that the insect modified its flight path just as if its eye had not been altered.

通过将人类视网膜的一粒蛋白质植入果蝇的眼中,研究人员注意到,果蝇调整了它的飞行路线,就像眼睛没有做过手脚一样。

This suggests that the 'sixth sense' does exist in humans but we might not be aware of it.

这表明,人类确实存在“第六感”,只是我们可能没有意识到。

Animals use such sight to navigatelong distances during migration or, in the case of birds, to 'see' where they are going.

动物在长途迁徙过程中利用这一感应力给自己导航,鸟类则凭借这一感应力“看到”前方飞行的方向。

The complex tests involved examining the process by which light goes through a bird's eye, which has intriguedthe scientific community fomore than 30 years.