资料题：According to this passage, the muscular sense is responsible for（　）。

Are you aware that you actually possess ix senses? The sixth is a muscular(肌肉)sense responsible for directing your muscles intelligently to the exact extent necessary for each action you perform.For example, when you reach for an abject, the sensory nerves linking the muscles to the brain stop your hand at the correct spot.This automatic perception of the position of yourmuscles in relation to the object is your muscular sense in action.Muscles are stringy bundles of fivers varying from one five-thousandth of an inch to about three inches.They have three unique characteristics: they can become shorter and thicker; they can stretch; they can react to their original positions under a high-powered microscope, muscle tissue is seen as long, slender cells with a grainy(木纹状的)texture like wood.More than half of a person's body is composed of muscle fibers, most of which are involuntary-in other words,work without conscious direction the voluntary muscles, those that we mover consciously to perform particular actions, number more than five hundred.Women have only 60 to 70 percent as much muscle as men for their body mass.That is why an average woman can't lift as much,throw as far or hit as hard as en average man.