题目内容
How ______ people are there in the street?
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A. much B. many C. a few D. a little
Different colours can affect us in many different ways; that’s according to Verity Allen. In a new programme “Colour me Healthy”, Verity looks at the ways that colours can influence how hard we work and the choices we make. They can even change our emotions and even influence how healthy we are.
“Have you ever noticed how people always use the same colours for the same things?” says Verity. “Our toothpaste is always white or blue or maybe red. It’s never green. Why not? For some reason we think that blue and white is clean, while we think of green products(产品)as being a bit unpleasant. It’s the same for businesses. We respect a company which writes its name in blue or black, but we don’t respect one that uses pink or orange. People who design(设计)new products can use these ideas to influence what we buy.”
During the programme, Verity studies eight different colours, two colours in each part. She meets people who work in the colour industry, from people who design food packages, to people who name the colours of lipsticks. Some of the people she meets clearly have very little scientific knowledge to prove their ideas, such as the American “Colour Doctor” who believes that serious diseases can be treated successfully by the use of coloured lights. However, she also interviews real scientists who are studying the effects of green and red lights on mice, with some surprising results.
Overall, it’s an interesting show, and anyone who watches it will probably find out something new. But because Verity goes out of her way to be polite to everyone she meets on the programme, it’s up to you to make your own decisions about how much you should believe.
【小题1】What’s Verity’s opinion about colours?
| A.Colours help people choose products. |
| B.Different people prefer different colours. |
| C.Colours have influences on people in many ways. |
| D.People working in colour industry know little about colours. |
| A.Colours influence people’s feelings and opinions. |
| B.People get ideas for new products from colours. |
| C.New products are popular because of colours. |
| D.Most companies prefer bright colours. |
| A.feels very pleased |
| B.makes a special effort |
| C.goes on in her own way |
| D.carries on very slowly |
| A.How people use colours. |
| B.How colours influence people. |
| C.What happens in a programme. |
| D.What makes a programme believable. |
Have you ever had the strange feeling that you were being watched? You turned around and, sure enough, someone was looking right at you!
Parapsychologists (灵学家) say that humans have a natural ability to sense when someone is looking at them. To research whether such a“sixth sense”really exists, Robert Baker, a psychologist (心理学家) at the University of Kentucky, did two experiments.
In the first one, Baker sat behind unknowing people in public places and stared(盯着)at the backs of their heads for 5 to 15 minutes. The subjects(受试者)were eating, drinking, reading, studying, watching TV, or working at a computer. Baker made sure that the people could not tell that he was sitting behind them during those periods. Later, when he questioned the subjects, almost all of them said they had no sense that someone was staring at them.
For the second experiment, Baker told the subjects that they would be stared at from time to time from behind in a laboratory setting. The people had to write down when they felt they were being stared at and when they weren’t. Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at and when they weren’t.
Baker concludes that people do not have the ability to sense when they’re being stared at. If people doubt the outcome of his two experiments, said Baker,“I suggest they repeat the experiments and see for themselves.”
【小题1】The aim of the two experiments is to ________.
| A.explain when people can have a sixth sense |
| B.study how people act while being watched in the lab |
| C.study whether humans can sense when they are stared at |
| D.prove why humans have a sixth sense |
| A.value | B.result | C.performance | D.connection |
| A.could tell when they were stared at |
| B.could tell where they weren’t stared at |
| C.couldn’t tell who they were stared at or who they stared at |
| D.couldn’t tell when they were stared at or when they weren’t |
| A.People are born with a sixth sense. |
| B.The experiments support parapsychologists’ idea. |
| C.The subjects do not have a sixth sense in the experiments. |
| D.People have a sixth sense in all places. |