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【题目】It’s surprising how much simple movements of the body can affect the way we think. Using expansive gestures with open arms makes us feel more powerful, crossing your arms makes you more determined and lying down can bring more insights(领悟).

So if moving the body can have these effects, what about the clothes we wear? We’re all well aware of how dressing up in different ways can make us feel more attractive, sporty or professional, depending on the clothes we wear, but can the clothes actually change cognitive (认知的)performance or is it just a feeling?

Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people’s powers of attention. The idea is that white coats are associated with scientists, who are in turn though to have close attention to detail.

What they found was that people wearing white coats performed better than those who weren’t. Indeed, they made only half as many errors as those wearing their own clothes on the Stroop Test( one way of measuring attention). The researchers call the effect “enclothed cognition,” suggesting that all manner of different clothes probably affect our cognition in many different ways.

This opens the way for all sorts of clothes-based experiments. Is the writer who wears a fedora more creative? Is the psychologist wearing little round glasses and smoking a cigar more insightful? Does a chef’s hat make the resultant food taste better?

From now on I will only be editing articles for PsyBlog while wearing a white coat to help keep the typing error count low. Hopefully you will be doing your part by reading PsyBlog in a cap and gown.(学位服).

【1】What is the main idea of the text?

A. Body movements change the way people think

B. How people dress has an influence on their feelings

C. What people wear can affect their cognitive performance

D. People doing different jobs should wear different clothes

【2】Adam and Galinsky’s experiment tested the effect of clothes on their wearers’___________.

A. insights B. movements

C. attention D. appearance

【3】How does the author sound in the last paragraph?

A. Academic B. Humorous

C. Formal D. Hopeful

Answer 1

【答案】can the clothes actually change cognitive performance or is it just a feeling.C选项What people wear can affect their cognitive performance

【解析】本文讲述了Adam和Galinsky所做的一个关于穿着白大褂人们注意力的实验。实验显示穿白大褂的人表现更为出色，他们的错误率是穿普通衣服的人的一半。得出结论：着装影响人的认知表现。

【1】主旨大意题。根据第二段but can the clothes actually change cognitive performance or is it just a feeling及下文所做的实验可知，本文主要讲述着装对人认知表现的影响。故选C。

【2】事实细节题。根据第三段Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people’s powers of attention.中的attention及第四段Indeed, … on the Stroop Test (one way of measuring attention)的attention.可知，Adam和Galinsky的实验是测试着装对人们注意力的影响。A. insights 洞察力； B. movements 移动；C. attention 注意力； D. appearance 外表。故选C。

【3】推理判断题。作者全文在讲述着装影响人的认知表现这一理论，最后一段作者说自己以后要穿白大褂上班编辑文章，以减少打字错误。他希望读者也能带上学士帽、穿上学位服阅读PsyBlog的文章。由此可推断出作者是用一种幽默的语气调侃着装认知理论。A. Academic 学士的； B. Humorous 幽默的；C. Formal 正式的； D. Hopeful 有希望的。故选B。