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.
小題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.
小題2:The word “pair” in Para.4 refers to _____.
A．boy and girlB．the two authors
C．research and resultD．pink and blue
小題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
小題4:How did the scientist do the research?
A．By asking questionsB．By telephoning the interviewees
C．By adding numbersD．By doing experiments
小題5:What is the purpose of writing this article?
A．To sell products packed in redB．To introduce the history of color
C．To inform us of a research findingD．To analyze men’s taste for color

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:B
小題4:D
小題5:C

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。
小題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。
小題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。
小題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。
小題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。
小題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。
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。
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A．a(chǎn)nimals are as clever as human beings
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B．Rico has a better memory partly because of its proper early training.
C．The border collie is world-famous for recognizing objects.
D．Rico is born to understand its owner's commands.
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Cooking was once regarded as an important part of education in England---even if it was mainly aimed at girls. In recent decades cooking has progressively become a minor activity in schools. In many cases the schools themselves have given up cooking meals in kitchens in the schools. But the rising level of obesity has led to a rethink about the food that children are given and the skills they should be taught.
“What I want is to teach young people how to do basic, simple recipes like a tomato sauce, a bolognaise, a simple curry, a stir-fry---which they can use now at home and then in their later life”, said Ed Balls, the minister responsible for schools.
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The renewed interest in cooking is primarily a response to the level of obesity in Britain which is among the highest in Europe, and according to government figures half of all Britons will be obese in 25 years if current trends are not stopped.
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A．the reason for obesityB．the lost cooking skills
C．the healthy eatingD．the compulsory cooking classes
小題2:Which of the following is NOT the purpose for English teenagers to receive cooking lessons?
A．To encourage teenagers to eat healthy food.
B．To reduce the country’s increasing obesity rate.
C．To stop parents from turning to pre-prepared convenience foods.
D．To prevent basic cooking and food preparation skills from being lost.
小題3:In what way will cooking lessons benefit the students?
A．They will be healthy and enjoy the pleasure of such a life skill as well.
B．They will be able to do some basic, simple recipes like a tomato sauce.
C．They will be able to make food experiments with the knowledge and skills.
D．They will be able to control the level of obesity in the whole country.
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A．difficultB．necessaryC．funnyD．timely
小題5:It can be inferred from the passage that       .
A．cooking has always been an important part of school education in England
B．the obesity rate in Britain has been rapidly growing in recent decades
C．English teenagers will have their cooking lessons twice a week for one year
D．the students will pay a lot of money to the school for the

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