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1、2013年职称英语理工类新增文章注明：今年理工类文章新增比较少，其中B级没有新增文章，建议所有考理工类的学员都要熟悉这三篇文章，因为有些时候ABC三级的文章有可能交叉考试。阅读理解新增：（C级）When Our Eyes Serve Our Stomach （C级）Musical Robot Companion Enhances Listener Experience （A级）Researchers Discover Why Humans Began Walking Upright阅读理解When Our Eyes Serve Our StomachOur senses arent just
2、delivering a strict view of whats going on in the world；theyre affected by whats going on in our heads1. 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 brighterRmi Radel of University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis2, France, wanted to investigate how this happensDoes it happen right away as the brain receives signals from the eyes or a little l
4、ater as the brains high-1evel thinking processes get involved. Radel recruited 42 students with a normal body mass index3On 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 told to
5、 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 screenOne by one, 80 words flashed on the screen for about l/300th of a se
6、cond each. They flashed at so small a size that the students could only consciously perceiveA quarter of the words were food-relatedAfter each word, each person was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of two words theyd seen-a food-related word like cake or a neutral word like bo
7、at. Each word appeared too briefly for the participant to really read itHungry 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 perception5, not i
8、n thinking processes, Radel says. “This is something great to meHumans can reallyperceive what they need or what they strive for. From the experiment, I know that our brain can really be at the disposal of 6 our motives and needs. ”Radel says. 词汇：threshold/rehuld/起点, 开端；门槛 neutral/nju：tml/aj. 中性的；中立
9、的strive/stralv/v. 努力, 力求；斗争disposal/dspaool/. 处理, 处置；配置 motive/mzotlv/动机, 目的注释：1Our senses arent just delivering a strict view ofin our heads：这个句子的大概意思是：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 SophiaAntipolis：法国尼斯索菲亚安提波利斯大学, 简称尼斯大学, 196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, 还在索菲亚安提波利斯市(So
10、phia Antipolis)、戛纳市(Cannes)和芒东市(Menton)设有校区. 索菲亚安提渡剩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. 3body mass index：身体质量指数4at the threshold of：当快要开始时5. in perception：感知6. at the disposal of：受到的控制练习：1What does the new study mentioned in Paragraph l find?A Hungry people see every word more clearly than ordinary people
11、B Hungry people are always thinking of foodrelated wordsC Hungry people are more sensitive to foodrelated words than stomachfull peopleD Hungry people do not have lowerlevel of thinking process2Why was there a delay on the day of the experiment?A Because hungry people needed time to fill their stoma
12、ch. B Because Radel wanted to create two groups of testers, hungry and nonhungryC 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 s
13、trict view of whatS going on in the world. B. Whats perceived by our senses affects our way of thinkingC. Humail brains carl really be at the disposal of our motives and needs. D. Thinking processes guarantee the normal functions of our senses4What did the results of the experiment indicate?A. 80 wo
14、rds flashed on the screen too fast for the participant to intentionally perceive. B. Hungry people were better at identifying neural words. C. People who had just eaten were better at identifying foodrelated words. D. The participants could barely perceive what they needed or what they strived for5.
15、 What carl we infer from the passage?A. 42 participants are too small a number for a serious investigation. B. An experiment with hungry and nonhungry participants is not reliable. C. Our thinking processes are independent of our senses. D. Humans call perceive what they need without involving highlevel thinking processes答案与题解：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foodrelated words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, 即饥饿组与饱食组. 选项B是答案. 3.
