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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.express his love for radio shows
B.prove the popularity of the show
C.show the influence of the hosts' words
D.introduce the topic of the passage
(2)Which of the following is NOT an example of behavioral mimicry?
A.A boy eats his popcorn after watching the actor eat.
B.A boy buys a Nike shirt when he finds his desk-mate has one.
C.A girl unconsciously sits straight just as others do.
D.A girl takes on the Yorkshire accent after a month's stay.
(3)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
(4)What is probably the author's purpose of writing this passage?
A.To draw readers' attention to popular radio shows.
B.To introduce behavioral mimicry and its influence.
C.To appeal to readers not to fall into others' habits.
D.To advocate healthy food choices among readers.

【答案】
(1)D
(2)B
(3)C
(4)B
【解析】本文講述了行為模仿是什么以及它的影響。

(1)D 目的意題圖。作者通過經(jīng)常收聽廣播后,開始使用里面的語言,然后引出話題:行為模仿。故選D。

(2)B 推理判斷題。根據(jù)第三段中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.可知,A屬于行為模仿。C項通過常識判斷屬于行為模仿;而作者本身就是對語言的模仿,所以D項也正確。B項屬于有意識的跟風(fēng),并非行為模仿。故選B。

(3)C 推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段第二句話the finding that behavioral mimicry may at least partly explain eating behavior is important, and has real effects on health.可知,研究結(jié)果表明了行為模仿對我們健康的意義,故選C。

(4)B 作者意圖題。作者寫本文的目的就是為了介紹行為模仿這個概念以及告訴我們行為模仿的影響。故選B。

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