[al:新概念英语（四）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）] [ti:Seeing Hands] [by:更多学习内容，请到chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:01.53]Lesson 4 [00:03.06]Seeing hands [00:11.70]How did Vera disover she had this gift of second sight? [00:18.36]Several cases have been reported in Russia recently [00:21.81]of people who can read and detect colours with their fingers, [00:26.20]and even see through solid doors and walls. [00:30.16]One case concerns an 11-year-old schoolgirl Vera Petrova, [00:36.08]who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls. [00:44.93]This ability was first noticed by her father. [00:49.07]One day she came into his office [00:51.90]and happened to put her hands on the door of a locked safe. [00:55.75]Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there, [01:01.85]and even described the way they were done up in bundles. [01:06.64]Vera's curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institute in the town of Ulyanovsk, near where she lives, [01:16.34]and in April she was given a series of tests by a special commission of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federal Republic. [01:25.35]During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an opaque screen and, stranger still,by moving her elbow over a child's game of Lotto [01:36.76]she was able to describe the figures and colours printed on it; [01:41.54]and,in another instance,wearing stockings and slippers, [01:45.85]to make out with her foot the outlines and colours of a picture hidden under a carpet. [01:53.07]Other experiments showed that her knees and shoulders had a similar sensitivity. [01:59.18]During all these tests Vera was blindfold; and indeed, except when blindfold she lacked the ability to perceive things with her skin. [02:10.15]It was also found that although she could perceive things with her fingers [02:15.12]this ability ceased the moment her hands were wet.