题目内容

阅读理解

　　What is your favourite colour? Do you like yellow, orange, red? If you do, you must be an optimist (乐观主义者), a leader, an active person who enjoys life, people and excitement. Do you prefer greys and blues? Then you are probably quiet, shy, and you would rather follow than lead. You must be a pessimist. At least, this is what scientists tell us, and they should know, because they have been seriously studying the meaning of colour preference (爱好), as well as the effect that colours have on human beings. They tell us, among other facts, that we do not choose our favourite colour as we grow up－we are born with our preference. If you happen to love brown, you did so, as soon as you opened your eyes, or at least as soon as you could see clearly.

　　Colours do affect us. There is no doubt about it. A yellow room makes most people feel happier and more relaxed than a dark green one; and a red dress brings warmth and cheer to the saddest winter day. On the other hand, black can cause people sad. A black bridge over the Thames River, near London, used to be the place of more suicides (自杀) than any other bridge in the area－until it was repainted green. The number of suicides immediately fell sharply; perhaps it would have fallen even more if the bridge had been done in pink or blue.

　　Light and bright colours make people not only happier but more active. It is a fact that factory workers work better, harder, and have fewer accidents when their machines are painted orange rather than black or grey.

1．“You would rather follow than lead” means ________.

[　　]

A．you don't like to follow others

B．you would be a member rather than a leader

C．you would be afraid of following others

D．you would like to be a leader rather than a follower

2．If one enjoys life, one is sure to prefer ________.

[　　]

A．red to yellow
B．blue to orange
C．red to grey
D．blue to yellow

3．“They tell us, among other facts, that we don't choose our favourite colours as we grow up.” “Among other facts” means ________.

[　　]

A．besides other facts
B．except other facts
C．not considering other facts
D．according to other facts

4．Which of the following is true?

[　　]

A．People's preference of one colour to another is born with them.

B．People's preference of one colour to another is got as they grow up.

C．More people happen to love brown because they saw something brown when they were born.

D．Colours have little effect on us.

5．Those who killed themselves preferred the bridge over the Thames River near London to others because of ________.

[　　]

A．its shape
B．its surface
C．its colour
D．its building materials
答案：B;C;A;A;C
练习册系列答案
相关题目

阅读理解

　　To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up．For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的)．So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion．Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans．

　　What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱)．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits．Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch．

　　Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet．In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”．

　　But in the end tomatoes carried the day．The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead．”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted．”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato．Some people fainted．But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory．

(1)

The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．

[　　]

A．

it made Christive evil

B．

it was the apple of Eden

C．

it came from a forbidden land

D．

it was religiously unacceptable

(2)

What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

[　　]

A．

The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down

B．

There was little pregress in the study of the tomato

C．

The tomato was still refused in most western countries

D．

Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato

(3)

What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?

[　　]

A．

To manke imself a hero

B．

To remove people's fear of the tomaoto

C．

To speed up the popularityt of the tomato

D．

To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory

(4)

What is the main purpose of the passage?

[　　]

A．

To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato

B．

To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato

C．

To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato

D．

To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence

违法和不良信息举报电话：027-86699610 举报邮箱：58377363@163.com

精英家教网