When you see your favorite food on a red plate, you probably feel hungry. But you feel hunger when it is on a white plate. Can you guess why this happens? According to a recent research, colors have great influences on our eating.

Firstly, colors can really influence our feelings about food. For example, when you add some red to water, it tastes sweeter than normal water, as if you’ve added some sugar into it. The red color makes you feel that the water is very nice to drink.

However, the food that you think the most delicious will probably taste worse to you if you change its color to blue. This is because blue is not a very natural color for food and it always makes people feel sad.

Besides, colors can also influence how much we eat. In one research, people were asked to serve themselves some pasta (意式面食) with white gravy. The people with red plates ate a smaller part. For example, there is a big cake in the red plate, maybe you feel full after eating only a piece of it. However, the people with white plates ate much more.

1.People will feel hungrier when food is on a ________ plate.

A.red B.blue C.white D.yellow

2.According to the passage, red drinks may make people ________.

A.drink more B.refuse it C.drink less D.feel scary

3.If you change the color of the food to blue, the food will probably ________.

A.make people feel happier B.taste worse

C.make people feel hungrier D.taste sweeter

4.What’s the best title of this passage?

A.Red and Water B.Blue and Food C.Sugar and Food D.Color and Eating

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Toronto-raised director Domee Shi has won her first Oscar for her animated (动画的) short film Bao. It is about a Chinese-Canadian woman and her little dumpling. Bao tells the story of an aging Chinese mom suffering from empty-nest syndrome(综合症). She1.(get) another chance at motherhood when one of her dumplings comes to itself.

Shi, with Bao,2.(become) the first woman to ever direct a short film at animation giant Pixar. Since the first showing last June, Bao and its young director3.(win) high praise. Because the film shows the loving treatment and protective love that children of Chinese can4.(experience).

Shi, who was born in Chongqing, China, moved to Toronto with her parents at a young age. Her growth experience and love of food gave her inspiration for Bao. Bao impressed us with talents and tasty Chinese food. Torontonians are so strongly proud of cultural richness.

When it was released(上映), Chinese people in Canada and across North America 5.(touch) by the way Bao so accurately(精确地) reflected their realities. The details in the family's home were so carefully recreated by Shi and her team which hit every home in a big way. For example, a mother6.(provide) her son with a delicious meal at that time.

In Shi's acceptance speech she said that the purpose of the story is to encourage all of the quiet girls (tell) 7.their stories to the world. Lots of girls were moved by what she said. A young lady said, "Now I 8.(work) in another city and has little time to take care of my parents. I9.(spend) more time with them from now on." It is really worth10.(see). Many people celebrated Bao's win.

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