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1、第十一篇 When our Eyes Serve our StomachOur senses arent just delivering a strict view of whats going on in the world;theyre affected by whats going on in otir heads, A new study finds that hungry people see food-related wordsmore clearly than people whove just eaten.Psychologists have known for decades
2、 that whats going on,inside our head affects our senses.For example,poorer cliildren think coins are larger than they are, and hungry people think pictures of food are brighter, Remi Radel of University of Nice Sopbia-Antipolis, France, wanted to investigate how this happens. Does it happen right aw
3、ay as the brain receives signals from the eyes or a little 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 rest,each student was told to arrive at the lab at noon after three or four hours of not eating
4、. Then they were told there was a delay. Some were 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 ,
5、80 words flashed on the screen for about 1/300th 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 , eachperson was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of two words theyd
6、seen -a food-related word like cake or a neutral 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
7、seen, this means that the difference is in perception not in thinking processes,Radel says.This is something great to me, Humans can really perceive what theyneed or what they strive for. From the experiment,1 know that our braincan really be at the disposal of 6 our motives and needs , Radel says.1
8、. What does the new study mentioned 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 Hungrypeople are more sensitive to food-related words than stomach-full people.D Hungry people do not have lower-level
9、of thinking process.2. Why was there a delay on the day of the experiment?A Because hungry people needed time to fill their stomachB Because Radel wanted to create two groups of testees,hungry and non-hungry.C Because noon was not the right time for any experiment.D Because Radel needed time to sele
10、ct 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 senses affects onr way of thinkingC Humanbrains can really be at the disposal of our motives and needs.D Thi
11、nking processes guarantee the normal functions of our senses4. What did the results of the experiment indicate?A 80 words flashed on the screen too fast for the participant to intentionally perceiveB Hungry people were better at identifying neutral wordsC People who bad just eaten were better at ide
12、ntifying food-relatedwordsD The participants could barely perceive what they needed or wbat they strived for.5. What can we infer from the passage?A 42 participants are too small a number for a serious investigation.B An experiment with hungry and non-hungry participants is not reliableC Our thinkin
13、g proeesses are independent of our sensesD Humans can perceive what they need without involving high-level thinking processes.词汇：threshold n. 起点，开端；门槛disposal n. 处理，处置：配置neutraladj. 中性的；中立的motive n. 动机，目的strive v.努力 . 力求：斗争注释：1、Our senses arent just delivering a strict view of in our heads : 这个句子的大概
14、意思是：我们的五官感觉不仅仅让我们感知世界；五官感觉还受大脑活动的影响2 .university of Nice Sophia-Antipolis:法国尼斯 索菲亚 安提波利斯大学简称尼斯大学 1965年经法国政令正式宣布成立。 尼斯大学在尼斯市设有 7 处主校园， 另外， 还在萦菲亚， 安提波利斯市（ Sophia Antipolis） 、戛纳市（Cannes）和芒东市（Menton）设有校区。索菲亚 安提波利斯是位 于尼斯市西南侧的科技园区，是许多高等学府的所在地3 .body mass index ：身体质量指数4 .at the threshold of :当快要开始时5.1 n pe
15、rception ：感知6.at the disposalof:受到的控制答案：1 .C 第一段第二句是本题答案的依据。饥肠辘辘的人只是看food-relatedwords 比较清楚 . 选项 C 的句意与上述句子的意思完全一致， 是答案。 选项 A 说的是 every word. 所以不是答案。选项 B 和 D 文章中没有提到2 . B 答案的根据可在第三段找到。 Radel 为了保证 42 名学生到达实验室时是空腹， 所以要求他们中午到达。 然后告诉一部分学生实验时间推迟了， 请他们10 分钟后再来。他又请另外一部分学生用午餐。 Radel 用推迟实验的方法造就了两组实验者，即饥饿组与饱食
16、组。选项 B 是答案3 .C 虽然A、 B、 D 选项均可在文中找到对应部分， 但只属于细节. 而非主旨，因此不能选。本文最后一句给出了直接的答案4 .A 第四段第三行中 consciously 与 A 项中的 intentionally 是同义词。B 项 neutral 意思为“ 中性的” 在本文中的意思是与food-relatad 相对的，即“与食物不相关的”因此是错误选择：C项不符合课文原意；D项barely意为“仅仅，勉强，几乎没有” 因此也不符合句意5 .D 选项 A 所说的实验样本的大小与本题主旨无关，不是答案，而是干扰项； B、 C 内容也不能直接从短文中推断出来。选项D 是答案 . 最后一段第二句的“ Humans an really perceive what they
