tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading Sample 108 - Telepathy

Với IELTS Academic Reading Sample 108 - Telepathy sẽ giúp các bạn ôn tập củng cố lại kiến thức và kỹ năng giải bài tập để chuẩn bị cho kỳ thi sắp tới đạt được kết quá mong muốn. Mời các bạn tham khảo. | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40 which are based on Reading Passage 108 below Telepathy Can human beings communicate by thought alone For more than a century the issue of telepathy has divided the scientific community and even today it still sparks bitter controversy among top academics Since the 1970s parapsychologists at leading universities and research institutes around the world have risked the derision of sceptical colleagues by putting the various claims for telepathy to the test in dozens of rigorous scientific studies. The results and their implications are dividing even the researchers who uncovered them. Some researchers say the results constitute compelling evidence that telepathy is genuine. Other parapsychologists believe the field is on the brink of collapse having tried to produce definitive scientific proof and failed. Sceptics and advocates alike do concur on one issue however that the most impressive evidence so far has come from the so-called ganzfeld experiments a German term that means whole field . Reports of telepathic experiences had by people during meditation led parapsychologists to suspect that telepathy might involve signals passing between people that were so faint that they were usually swamped by normal brain activity. In this case such signals might be more easily detected by those experiencing meditation-like tranquillity in a relaxing whole field of light sound and warmth. The ganzfeld experiment tries to recreate these conditions with participants sitting in soft reclining chairs in a sealed room listening to relaxing sounds while their eyes are covered with special filters letting in only soft pink light. In early ganzfeld experiments the telepathy test involved identification of a picture chosen from a random selection of four taken from a large image bank. The idea was that a person acting as a sender would attempt to beam the image over to the receiver relaxing in the sealed room. Once the session was .

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