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Anyone who ever wondered why a dying plant, say, a freshly-cut red rose may appeal to a lady friend, might take some comfort in science, which once again offers us a reasonable answer to one of the world’ s great mysteries.

Beyond a common preference in people for blue, “the long history of color preference studies has been described as ‘confusing and contradictory(矛盾的)’,” write scientists Anya Hurlbert and Yazhu Ling of England’ s Newcastle University, authors of a new study in the journal Current Biology. “This fact is perhaps surprising,” they said, “though the popularity of the concept that little girls differ from boys in preferring pink.”

But the scientists believe they have an answer to this scientific mystery, discovering women’s preference for red, hidden above the average liking for blue.

In their study, the pair quickly flashed color cards, displaying many different aspects, at 208 volunteers, mostly Britishers but with a number of Han Chinese, who moved to the United Kingdom recently. Tested in three different experiments, the researchers found out a small but significant preference for reddish colors in the female volunteers.

Puzzled, the authors realized that most of the difference between men and women came in the form of a preference for green VS red in the color cards, regardless of the other slight differences such as the slightly blue ones that everyone liked. Why might this be?

Evolution might offer an answer, they reason. Human color perception(感知), the assessment of three separate color types — red — green — blue— in our vision (視覺) is a relatively recent addition to our line of mammals(脯乳動物)

Adding weight to their argument, they found the women who are most typically feminine(女性的) on a psychological survey also had the biggest preference for reddish colors. “My love is like a red, red rose,” wrote the Scottish poet Rober Burns in 1794.

1.What does the first paragraph probably tell us ?

A．Scientific research can help people solve the mystery.

B．When we are tired, we can turn to science for help.

C．Science can make our study interesting and contradictory.

D．We should turn to scientific invention for comfortable life.

2.The word “pair” in Para.4 refers to _____.

A．boy and girl                            B．the two authors

C．research and result                      D．pink and blue

3.According to the passage, ______________.

A．boys like blue better than girls

B．girls like pink better than boys

C．men like red better than women

D．men and women both like green

4.How did the scientist do the research?

A．By asking questions                      B．By telephoning the interviewees

C．By adding numbers                      D．By doing experiments

5.What is the purpose of writing this article?

A．To sell products packed in red              B．To introduce the history of color

C．To inform us of a research finding           D．To analyze men’s taste for color

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.A

2.B

3.B

4.D

5.C

【解析】

試題分析：本文敘述了人們在日常生活中女性與男性的在喜歡的顏色上的不同，女性多喜歡紅顏色，而男性多喜歡藍(lán)色。男女對顏色的不同偏好與生俱來，在人類進(jìn)化過程中逐漸形成。

1.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)which once again offers us a reasonable answer to one of the world’ s great mysteries.有解釋不清的問題找研究人員進(jìn)行科學(xué)的研究，故選A。

2.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)write scientists Anya Hurlbert and Yazhu Ling of England’ s Newcastle University, authors of a new study in the journal Current Biology. the pair quickly flashed color cards,指的是兩個作者，故選B。

3.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)This fact is perhaps surprising,” they said, “though the popularity of the concept that little girls differ from boys in preferring pink.” Tested in three different experiments, the researchers found out a small but significant preference for reddish colors in the female volunteers.小女孩喜歡粉色，故選B。

4.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Tested in three different experiments,科學(xué)家通過不同餓實驗得出結(jié)論，故選D。

5.寫作意圖題。根據(jù)手段和全文來看這篇的短文的目的在于告知人們一個實驗的結(jié)果，故選C。

考點：日常生活類短文閱讀。

點評：細(xì)節(jié)理解題：在快速閱讀的過程中，要掌握主旨大意，要有閱讀的整體意識，避免那種“只見樹木，不見森林”的逐字逐句的閱讀習(xí)慣。接著是尋讀，確定“信息源”，找出問題的相關(guān)信息出自文章何處，跟哪些段落或句子有關(guān)，仔細(xì)比較所給選項與文中細(xì)節(jié)一點一滴的區(qū)別，在準(zhǔn)確理解細(xì)節(jié)的前提下，最后確定最佳答案，這樣對細(xì)節(jié)理解題的處理基本做到了有根有據(jù)，提高了判斷的正確性。