71．Which of the following helps alert officers if someone stops breathing?

　　　 A．Scanning equipment.　　　　　　　　　 　B．Royal blue lines.　　

C．Glass doors.　　 D．Yellow frames.

70．Which of the following colours should NOT be used in cells according to me passage?

　　　 A．Pink. B．Yellow　　 C．Blue. D．Red.

69．The expression “tip the balance ” in paragraph 1 probably indicates that the blue might　　 .

　　　 A．let suspects keep their balance

B．help suspects to confess their crimes

C．make suspects cold and unfriendly in law court　

D．enable suspects to change their attitudes to colours

75. What is the biggest concern with the method?

　 A. Whether it is moral.　　　　　　　　　　　 B. Who it is best for.

　 C. When it is effective.　　　　　　　　　　　 D. How it should be used.

答案　 72.C　 73.B　 74.D　 75.A

Passage 61

(06·上海B篇)

Nervous suspects(嫌疑犯)locked up in Britain’s newest police station may feel relieved by a pleasant yellow Colour on the door. If they are close to confessing a crime, the blue on the wall might tip the balance.

Gwent Police have abandoned colours such as greys and browns of the 20th-century police cell(牢房)and have used colour psychology to decorate them.

Ystrad Mynach station, which recently opened at a cost of￡5 million has four cells with glass doors for prisoners who suffer from claustrophobia(幽闭恐怖症) Designers have painted the frames yellow, which researchers say is a calming colour. Other cells contain a royal blue line because psychologists believe that the colour is likely to encourage truthfulness.

The station has 31 cells, including 12 with a “live scan” system for drunken or disturbed prisoners, which detects the rise and fall of their chest. An alarm alerts officers if a prisoner’s breathing stops and carries on ringing until the door is opened.

Designers and psychologists have worked for years on colour. Blue is said to suggest trust, efficiency, duty, logic, coolness, thinking and calm. It also suggests coldness and unfriendliness. It is thought that strong blues will stimulate clear thought and lighter, soft colours will calm the mind and aid concentration.

Yellow is linked with confidence, self-respect and friendliness Get the colour wrong and it could cause fear, depression and anxiety, but the right yellow can lift spirits and self-respect.

Ingrid Collins, a psychologist who specializes in the effects of colour, said that colour was an “energy force ” She said: “Blue does enhance communication but I am not sure it would enhance truthful communication.”

Yellow, she said, affected the mind. Red on the other hand, should never be considered because it could increase aggression Mrs Collins praised the designers for using colours in the cells Gwent is not the first British force to experiment with colour to calm down or persuade prisoners to co-operate, In the 1990s Strathclyde Police used pink in cells based on research carried out by the US Navy.

74. According to the study, people may stop having a certain food if they _______.

　 A. learn it is harmful for health

　 B. lie to themselves that they don’t want it

　 C. are willing to let doctors control their minds

　 D. think they once had a bad experience of eating it

73. What did Loftus find out from her research?

　 A. People believe what the computer tells them.

　 B. People can be led to believe in something false.

　 C. People tend to forget their childhood experiences.

　 D. People are not always aware of their personalities.

72. Why did Loftus ask the volunteers to answer some questions?

　 A. To improve her computer program.

　 B. To find out their attitudes towards food.

　 C. To find out details she can make use of.

　 D. To predict what food they’ll like in the future.

71. Which is the best title for the passage?

　 A. Societal Conditions in Premodern Times

　 B. Practices of Reducing Maternal Attachment

　 C. Poor Health Service and High Infant Death Rate

　 D. Differences between Modern and Premodern Parents

答案　 68.D　 69.B　 70.B　 71.B

Passage 60

(06·北京E篇)

A study published in September suggests there is a surprising way to get people to avoid unhealthy foods: change their memories. Scientist Elizabeth Loftus of the University of California at Irvine asked volunteers to answer some questions on their personalities (个性) and food experiences. “One week later,” Loftus says, “we told those people we’d fed their answers into our smart computer and it came up with an account of their early childhood experiences.” Some accounts included one key additional detail (细节). “You got sick after eating strawberry ice-cream.” The researchers then changed this detail into a manufactured (人为促成的) memory through leading questions- Who were you with? How did you feel? By the end of the study, up to 41% of those given a false memory believed strawberry ice-cream once made them sick, and many said they’d avoid eating it.

When Loftus published her findings, she started getting calls from people begging her to make them remember hating chocolate or French fries. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy. False memories appear to work only for foods you don’t eat on a regular basis. But most important, it is likely that false memories can be implanted (灌输) only in people who are unaware of the mental control. And lying to a patient is immoral, even if a doctor believes it’s for the patient’s benefit.

Loftus says there’s nothing to stop parents from trying it with their overweight children. “I say, wake up- parents have been lying about Father Christmas for years, and nobody seems to mind. If they can prevent diseases caused by fatness and all the other problems that come with that, you might think that’s more moral lie. Decide that for yourself.”

70. Wet nurses were women who _________.

　 A. babysat city infants

　 B. fed babies of other families

　 C. sent their babies to the country

　 D. failed to look after their babies

69. Why were babies wrapped?

　 A. To protect them from the cold.

　 B. To distance their mothers from them.

　 C. To make them feel more comfortable.

　 D. To make it easy for their mothers to hold them.