2013職稱英語真題原文:When Our Eyes Serve Our Stomach

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理工C級

　　第十一篇

　　When Our Eyes Serve Our Stomach

　　(考題預(yù)測班 第5講)

　　Our senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what's going on in the worid; they're affected by what's going on in our heads'.A new study finds that hungry people see food-related words more clearly than people who've just eaten.

　　Psychologists have known for decades 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. Remi Radel of University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France, wanted to investigate how this happens. Does it happen right away as the brain receives signals from the eyes or a little later as the brain's high-level thinking processes get involved.

　　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.

　　For the experiment,the panicipant looked at a computer screen.One by one,80 words flashed on the screen for about l/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 they'd seen- a food-related word like cake or neutral word like boat.Eachword appeared too briefly for the participant to really read it.

　　Hungry people saw the food-related words as brighter and were better at identifying food-related words. Because the word appeared too qulckly for them to be reliably seen,this rneans that the difference is in perception,not in percesses,Radel says.

　　“This is something great to me.Humans can really perceive what they need or what they they strive for.From the experiment,I know our brain can really be at the disposal of 6 our motives and needs,”Radel says.

　　詞匯：

　　Threshold n.起點，開端，門檻 disposal n.處理，處置，配置

　　Neutral adj.中性的，中立的 motive n.動機，目的

　　Strive v.努力，力求;斗爭

　　注釋：

　　1.our senses aren't just delivering a strict view of…in our head：這個句子的大概意思是：我們的五官感覺不僅僅讓我們感知世界;五官感覺還受大腦活動的影響。

　　2.University of Nice Sophia.Antipolis：法國尼斯-索菲亞-安提波利斯大學(xué)，簡稱尼斯大學(xué)，1965年經(jīng)法國政令正式宣布成立。尼斯大學(xué)在尼斯市設(shè)有7處主校園，另外，還在索菲亞‘安提波利斯市( Sophia Antipolis)、蔓納市(Cannes)和芒東市(Menton)設(shè)有校區(qū)。索菲亞。安提波利斯是位于尼斯市西南側(cè)的科技園區(qū)，是許多高等學(xué)府的所在地。

　　3 body mass index:身體質(zhì)量指數(shù)

　　4 at the threshold of:當(dāng)……快要開始時

　　5 in percepEion:感知

　　6 at the disposal of:受到……的控制

　　練習(xí)：

　　l What does the new study mentioned in Paragraph l find?

　　A.Hungry people see every word more clearly than ordinary people

　　B.Hungry people are always thinking of food-related words

　　C.Hungrypeople are more sensitive to food-related words than stomach-full people

　　D.Hungry people do not have lower-level of thinking process

　　2 Why was there a delay on the day of the experiment?

　　A.Because hungry people needecl time to fill their stomach

　　B.Because Radel wanLed to create two groups of testees.hungry and non-hungry

　　C.Because noon was noL the right time for any experiment

　　D.Because Radel needed time to select pafflicipants in terms of body mass index

　　3 What does the writer want to tell us?

　　A.Human's senses aren't just delivering a s(rict view of what's going on in the worid

　　B.What's perceived by our senses affects our way of thinking

　　C.Human brains can really be at the disposal of our motives and needs

　　D.Thinking prOCeSse8 guaraIltee me no珊al funCt10ns of our SenSe8

　　4 What did the results of the experiment indicate?

　　A.80 words flashed on the screen too fast for the participant to intentionally perceive

　　B.Hungry people were better at identifying neutral words

　　C.People who had just eaten were better at identifying food-related words

　　D.The participants could barely perceive what they needed or what they strived for

　　5 What can we infer from the passage?

　　A.42 participants are too small a number for a serious investigation

　　B.An experiment with hungry and non-hungry pmlicipants is not reliable

　　C.Our thinking processes are independent of our senses

　　D.Humans can perceive what they need without involving high-level thinking processes

　　答案與題解：

　　l.C第一段第二句是本題答案的依據(jù)。饑腸轆轆的人只是看food-related words比較清楚，選項C的甸意與上述句子的意思完全一致，是答案。選項A說的是every word，所以不是答案選項B和D文章中沒有提到。

　　2.B答案的根據(jù)可在第三段找到。Radel為了保證42名學(xué)生到達實驗室時是空腹，所以要求他們中午到達。然后告訴一部分學(xué)牛實驗時間推遲了，請他們10分鐘后再來。他又請另外一部分學(xué)生用午餐。Radel用推遲實驗的方法造就了兩組實驗者，即饑餓組與飽食組。選項B是答案

　　3.C雖然A.B、D選項均可在文中找到對應(yīng)部分，但只屬于細節(jié)，而非主旨，因此小能選。本文最后一句給出了直接的答案。

　　4.A第四段第_行中consciously與A項中的iruentionally是同義詞。B項neutral意思為“中性的”，在本文中的意思是與food-related相對的，即“與食物不相關(guān)的”，因此是錯誤選擇;c項不符合課文原意;D項barely意為“僅僅，勉強，幾乎沒有”，因此也不符合甸意。

　　5.D 選項A所說的實驗樣本的大小與本題主旨無關(guān)，不是答案，而是干擾項;B.c內(nèi)容也不能直接從短文中推斷出來。選項D是答案。最后一段第二句的“Humans can really perceive what they need or what they strive for”為選擇D項提供了依據(jù)。

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