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1、 2013 年全国职称英语统考考前辅导 2013 年全国职称英语统考考前辅导 强化班阅读讲义(3 月 16 日) 北京地址：北京市海淀区中关村南大街 27 号中扬大厦 2 层 咨询电话：400-890-1100 学习网址： 微博网址：http:/ QQ：371808070 精致服务 卓越品质 精致服务 卓越品质 一切从学员出发，一切为学员着想！ 一切从学员出发，一切为学员着想！ 总部地址：北京市海淀区中关村南大街 27 号中扬大厦二层 咨询电话：400-890-1100 1 理工类 When Our Eyes Serve Our Stomach Our senses arent just d
2、elivering a strict view of w whats going on in the world; theyre affected by whats going on in our heads. A new study finds that hungry people see food-related words more clearly than people whove just eaten. Psychologists have known for decades that whats going on inside our head affects our senses
3、. 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 li
4、ttle later as the brains 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
5、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 participant looked at a computer screen. One by one,80 words flashed on the screen for about l/300th
6、 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 I asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of two words theyd seen a food-related word like cake or a neutr
7、al word like boat. Each word 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 quickly for them to be reliably seen, this means that the difference is in pe
8、rceptions, not in thinking-p-recesses, Radel says. “This is something great to me. Humans can really perceive want they need or what they strive for. From the experiment, know that our brain can really be at the disposal of 6 0ur motives and needs, “ Radel says. 练习: l. What does the new study mentio
9、ned in Paragraph 1 find? A . Hungry people see every word more clearly than ordinary people. B. Hungry people are always thinking of food-related words. C. Hungry people are more sensitive to food-related words than stomach-full people. D. Hungry people do not have lower-level of thinking process. 精
10、致服务 卓越品质 精致服务 卓越品质 一切从学员出发，一切为学员着想！ 一切从学员出发，一切为学员着想！ 总部地址：北京市海淀区中关村南大街 27 号中扬大厦二层 咨询电话：400-890-1100 2 2. Why was there a delay on the day of the experiment? A . Because hungry people needed time to fill their stomach. B . Because Radel wanted to create two groups of testees, hungry and non-hungry.
11、C . Because noon was not the right time for any experiment. D . Because Radel needed time to select participants in terms of body mass index. 3. What does the writer want to tell us? A . Humans senses arent just delivering a strict view of whats going on in the world. B. Whats perceived by our sense
12、s affects our way of thinking. C . Human brains can really be at the disposal of our motives and needs. D. Thinking processes guarantee the normal functions of our senses. 4. What did the results of the experiment indicate? A. 80 words flashed on the screen too fast for the participant to intentiona
13、lly 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
14、small a number for a serious investigation. B. An experiment with hungry and non-hungry participants 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：15 CBCAD 理工类 Better Solar Energy Sy
15、stems: More Heat, More Light Solar photovoltaic thermal energy systems, or PVTs, generate both heat and electricity, but 1 : now they havent been very good at the heat-generating part compared to a stand-alone solar thermal collector. Thats because they operate at low temperatures to cool crystallin
16、e silicon solar cells4, which51ets the silicon generate more 2 but isnt a very efficient way to gather heat. Thats a problem of 3 . Good solar hot-water systems can harvest much more energy than a solar-electric system at a substantially lower 4 . And its also a space problem: photovoltaic cells can take up all the
