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【題目】 When I was a kid, I used to spend hours listening to Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew Pinsky on their Sunday night radio show Loveline. I listened so often that I began to use one of their well-known phrases — “good times” — in my daily conversations. Scientists have a name for this phenomenon: behavioral mimicry.

You’ve probably experienced this before: after spending enough time with another person, you might start to pick up on his or her behavior or speech habits. You might even start to develop your friend’s habits without realizing it. There is a large body of literature concerning this sort of phenomenon, and it regularly happens for everything from body gesture to accents to drink patterns (模式). For example, one study found that young adults were more likely to drink their drink directly after their same-sex drinking partners, than for the two individuals to drink at their own paces.

And the effect isn’t limited to real-life face-to-face activities. Another study found that the same you-drink-then-I-drink pattern held even when watching a movie! In other words, people were more likely to take a drink of their drinks in a theater after watching the actors on the screen enjoy a drink. At least I don’t feel so strange anymore, having picked up on Adam Carolla’s “good times”.

New research published today in the journal PLOS ONE indicates that the same sort of behavioral mimicry is responsible for social eating, at least among university-age women of normal weight. That’s right: the young women were more likely to adjust their eating according to the eating pace of their same-sex dining companion.

As with most experiments, these results raise a whole new set of questions. However, the finding that behavioral mimicry may at least partly explain eating behavior is important, and has real effects on health. The researchers note that “as long as people don’t fully recognize such important influences on intake (eating), it will be difficult to make healthy food choices and keep a healthy diet, especially when people are exposed to the eating behavior of others”.

【1】The author takes his own example of using “good times” to_______.

A.show the influence of the hosts’ wordsB.express his love for radio shows

C.prove the popularity of the showD.introduce the topic of the passage

【2】It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _______.

A.behavioral mimicry is beneficial to our health

B.behavioral mimicry decides our eating behavior

C.people have realized the effect of behavioral mimicry on our health

D.It’s impossible to keep a healthy diet without knowing behavioral mimicry

【3】What is probably the author’s purpose of writing this passage?

A.To introduce behavioral mimicry and its influence.

B.To appeal to readers not to fall into others’ habits.

C.To advocate healthy food choices among readers.

D.To draw readers’ attention to popular radio shows.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】A

【解析】

這是一篇說明文。文章主要講述了什么是行為模仿以及行為模仿的影響。

【1】推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第一段中“I listened so often that I began to use one of their well-known phrases — “good times” — in my daily conversations. Scientists have a name for this phenomenon: behavioral mimicry.”我聽得太多了，以至于我開始在日常對話中使用他們的一句名言——“美好時光”。科學(xué)家給這種現(xiàn)象起了個名字：行為模仿；以及下文主要講述了什么是行為模仿以及其影響可知，作者以自己為例，用“美好時光”來表示引出本文的主題——行為模仿。結(jié)合選項，故選D。

【2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章最后一段中的However, the finding that behavioral mimicry may at least partly explain eating behavior is important, and has real effects on health. The researchers note that “as long as people don’t fully recognize such important influences on intake (eating), it will be difficult to make healthy food choices and keep a healthy diet, especially when people are exposed to the eating behavior of others”. 然而，研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，行為模仿至少可以部分解釋飲食行為，這一發(fā)現(xiàn)很重要，而且對健康有實際影響。研究人員指出，“只要人們沒有充分認(rèn)識到這些對攝入量(飲食)的重要影響，就很難做出健康的食物選擇和保持健康的飲食習(xí)慣，尤其是當(dāng)人們接觸到其他人的飲食行為時。”由此可推斷出，人們已經(jīng)意識到行為模仿對健康的影響。結(jié)合選項，故選C。

【3】推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第一段中I listened so often that I began to use one of their well-known phrases — “good times”— in my daily conversations. Scientists have a name for this phenomenon: behavioral mimicry.(我聽得太多了，以至于我開始在日常對話中使用他們的一句名言——“美好時光”。科學(xué)家給這種現(xiàn)象起了個名字：行為模仿)以及文章第二段中You’ve probably experienced this before: after spending enough time with another person, you might start to pick up on his or her behavior or speech habits. You might even start to develop your friend’s habits without realizing it(你可能以前也有過這樣的經(jīng)歷：在和另一個人相處了足夠長的時間后，你可能會開始注意他或她的行為或說話習(xí)慣。你甚至可能在沒有意識到的情況下開始養(yǎng)成你朋友的習(xí)慣)以及文章第三段中And the effect isn’t limited to real-life face-to-face activities(這種影響并不局限于現(xiàn)實生活中面對面的活動)由此可以推出，作者寫這篇文章的目的是介紹行為模仿這個概念以及告訴我們行為模仿的影響。結(jié)合選項，故選A。

推理判斷題屬于主觀題，是層次較高的題目。它包括判斷和推理題。這兩類題常常相互依存，推理是為了作出正確的判斷，正確的判斷又依賴于合乎邏輯的推理。該題要求在理解表面文字的基礎(chǔ)上，作出判斷和推論，從而得到文章的隱含的意思和深層的意思，也就是通過文章中的文字信息，上下邏輯關(guān)系及事物的發(fā)展變化等已知的信息，推斷出作者沒有直接表達(dá)的態(tài)度和觀點。如本題第1小題，根據(jù)文章第一段中“I listened so often that I began to use one of their well-known phrases — “good times” — in my daily conversations. Scientists have a name for this phenomenon: behavioral mimicry.”我聽得太多了，以至于我開始在日常對話中使用他們的一句名言——“美好時光”。科學(xué)家給這種現(xiàn)象起了個名字：行為模仿；以及下文主要講述了什么是行為模仿以及其影響可知，作者以自己為例，用“美好時光”來表示引出本文的主題——行為模仿。結(jié)合選項，故選D。