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山东省即墨市2014高考英语二轮阅读理解精英训练精品题（7）及答案 【浙江省宁波市2014高考英语十校联考试题】C Imagine you’re in a dark room, running your fingers over a smooth surface in search of a single dot the size of this period, How high do you think the dot must be for your finger to feel it? Scientists have determined that the human finger is so sensitive it can detect a surface bump just one micron（l6m）high． The human eyeby contrast, cant tell anything much smaller than100 microns．evolution: even the simplest single-celled living things can feel when something brushes up against them and will respond by moving closer or pulling away． t is the first sense aroused during a baby’s development and the last to weaken at lifes peak． Patients in a deep coma （昏迷）who seem otherwise lost to the world will show skin reaction when touched by a nurse． “Touch ,is so central to what we are that we almost cannot imagine ourselves without it,” said Chris Djkerman．“Its not like eyesight, where you close your eyes and you dont see anything． You cant do tat with touch．Its always there． Long igned in favor of the sensory heavyweights of eyesight and hearing, the study of touch lately:: has been gaining new concern among scientists．Theyre exploring the effects of recently reported false touch impressions, of people being made to feel as though they had three arms, for example, with the hope of gaining the true understanding of how the mind works． Others are turning to touch for more practical purposes: to build better touch screen instruments and robot hands, a more well-rounded virtual life．。“Theres a fair amount of research into new ways of offloading information onto our sense of touch, said Lynette Jones． To have your cell phone buzzing （making a low sound） as opposed to ringing turned out to have a ot of advantages in．soe situations． Toch is our most active sense, our means of seizing the world and experiencing it first hand． Dr．Susan Lederman pointed out that while we can become aware of something by seei