职称英语理工类阅读理解备考之练习题(1)

　　Our senses arent just delivering strict view of whats going on in the world; theyre affected by whats going on in our heads. A new study finds that hungry people see food-related words more clearly than people whove just eaten. 　　Radel recruited 42 students with a normal body mass index. On the day of his or her test, each student was told to arrive at the lab at noon after three or four hours of not eating. 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 first. So half the students were hungry when they did the experiment and the other half had just eaten.300th of a second each. They flashed at so small a size that the students could only consciously perceive. A quarter of the words were food-related. After each word，each person was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of two words theyd seen a food-related word like cake or a neutral word like boat. Each word appeared too briefly for the participant to really read it. 　　This is something great to me. Humans can really perceive what they need or what they strive for. From the experiment, I know that our brain can really be at the disposal of our motives and needs, Radel says. 　　threshold n.起点，开端;门槛 　　neutral adj.中性的;中立的 　　strive v.努力，力求;斗争 注释： 　　2. University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis:法国尼斯?索菲亚?安提波利斯大学，简称尼斯大学，1965年经法国政令正式宣布成立。尼斯大学在尼斯市设有7处主校园，另外，还在索菲亚? 安提波利斯市、戛纳市和芒东市设有校区。索菲亚? 安提波利斯是位于尼斯市西南侧的科技园区，是许多髙等学府的所在地。 　　4. at the threshold of:当快要开始时 　　6. at the disposal of:受到的控制 　　1. What does the new study mentioned in Paragraph 1 find? 　　B Hungry people are always thinking of food-related words. 　　D Hungry people do not have lower-level of thinking process. 　　A Because hungry people needed time to fill their stomach. 　　C Because noon was not the right time for any experiment. 　　3. What does the writer want to tell us? 　　B Whats perceived by our senses affects our way of thinking. 　　D Thinking processes guarantee the normal functions of our senses. 　　A 80 words flashed on the screen too fast for the participant to intentionally perceive. 　　C People who had just eaten were better at identifying food-related words. 　　5. What can we infer from the passage? 　　B An experiment with hungry and non-hungry participants is not reliable. 　　D Humans can perceive what they need without involving high-level thinking processes. 　　2. B答案的根据可在第三段找到。Radel为了保证42名学生到达实验室时是空腹，所以要求他们中午到达。然后告诉一部分学生实验时间推迟了，请他们10分钟后再来。他又请另外一部分学生用午餐。Radel用推迟实验的方法造就了两组实验者，即饥饿组与饱食组。选项 B是答案。 　　4. A第四段第三行中consciously与A项中的intentionally是同义词。B项neutral意思为中性的，在本文中的意思是与food-related相对的，即与食物不相关的，因此是错误选择; C 项不符合课文原意; D项barely意为仅仅，勉强，几乎没有，因此也不符合句意。 　　我们的五官不仅仅让我们感知世界;还受大脑活动的影响。一项新研究发现：比起那些刚刚用过餐的人，饥饿的人能更清晰地看到与食品有关的词。 　　雷戴尔招募了健康指数正常的42位学生作为被试者。在测试的当天，每个学生被告知在中午到达实验室，这时距上一次的用餐时间有3?4个小时。等他们到达实验室时，他们被告知实验时间有延迟。一半学生被告知十分钟后再回来;其余的给1个小时的时间先吃午饭。所以一半学生饿着肚子，另一半学生饱腹参加了此次实验。300秒的频率闪动。由于字体非常之小，被试者只能凭感觉捕捉到字形。1p 　　饥饿的人看到与食物有关的词更明亮，且能更好地辨认出与食物有关的词。由于每个词的闪动太快，其实那些被试者根本不会确切地看到什么，这就说明：他们只是感觉不同，根本没经过思考。雷戴尔给出了这样的解释。