A football suddenly flew over our head and it ______ missed hitting a child playing nearby.

Our head teacher keeps telling us that the future ________ to the well-educated.

Psychologists(心理学家) have known that what's going on inside our head affects our senses. For example, poorer children think coins are larger than they are, and hungry people think pictures of food are brighter. Professor Remi Radel wanted to investigate(look into) how this happens -- whether it's right away, as the brain receives signals from the eyes, or a little later, as the brain's higher-level thinking processes get involved.
Radel chose 42 students and each student was told to arrive at the lab at noon after three or four hours of not eating on the day of the test. Then they were told there was a delay. Some were told to come back in 10 minutes; others were given an hour to get lunch. So half the students were hungry when they did the experiment and the other half had just eaten.
For the experiment, the participant looked at a computer screen. One by one, 80 words flashed on the screen. A quarter of the words were food-related. After each word, the person was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of two words they'd seen -- a food-related word like gateau (cake) or a neutral (中性的) word like bateau (boat).
Hungry people saw the food-related words as brighter and were better at identifying food-related words. Because the word appeared too quickly for them to be reliably seen, this means that the difference is in perception (直觉), Radel says—it's not because of some kind of processing happening in the brain after you've already figured out what you're looking at.
"This is something great to me, that humans can really realize what they need or what they hope for, to know that our brain can really arrange for our motives and needs," Radel says. "There is something inside us that selects information in the world to make life easier.”
【小题1】The purpose of Radel's research is to let us know ____.

You have heard of Webster Toys.Websters have made good，safe and interesting toys for more than a hundred years.Now we sell them，and children play with them，in countries from New Zealand to Norway，and from Japan to Brazil.We are looking for someone to sell our toys in the Far East.He (or she) will be between the age of thirty and forty.He will already have some years of selling in world markets behind him.He will speak good English，and at least one other language of the Far East.

The person we are looking for will live in Singapore，and work in our office there，but he will travel for up to six months in other countries in one year.He will know the Far East quite well already.He will know how to sell in old markets and where to find new ones.He will understand money and more than ever before，for himself，and for Webster Toys.

Websters want someone who can stand on his own feet.If you think you are the person we are looking for，write to Mr J Sloman at our head office.

Webster Toys Company

Church Mill，Watford

Hert，WD 36 HE

36．What are Webster Toys?

A．A kind of old toys.

B．Factories where good，safe and interesting toys are made.

C．People who are famous for making toys for children.

D．A company that has been making and selling toys.

37．The passage is written because________.

A．they need a right person to work for them

B．they are trying to find the man they have lost

C．they want to have a choice between a man and a woman

D．they are looking for a man living in Singapore

38．The person must be good at speaking________.

A．English and any other language

B．English or any other language

C．English and any other Far Eastern language

D．English or any other Far Eastern language

39．“Someone who can stand on his own feet” means________.

A．someone who can deal with all the business all by himself

B．someone who doesn’t stand on other people’s feet

C．someone who has nothing wrong with his feet

D．someone who can understand and can earn a lot of money

40．Where can you probably read above passage?

A．In a book.                                          B．In a dictionary.

C．In a magazine.                                    D．In a newspaper.

A football suddenly flew over our head and it ______ missed hitting a child playing nearby.

A．narrowly          B．softly             C．slightly            D．lightly