英语四级标准听力强化训练(MP3+文本) 第40期:短文(19)

【听力答案】

1. D 2. A 3. D

【听力原文】

Passage 1

Different Colors can affect us in many different ways; that's according to Verity Allen.（1）In her new series Color Me Healthy，Verity looks at the ways that colors can influence how hard we work and the choices we make. They can even change our emotions and even influence how healthy we are.（Verity 在她的Color Me Healthy一书中主要探讨了颜色如何影响人们，包括颜色对人们工作努力程度的影响、对人们做出选择的影响、对人们情绪的影响，颜色甚至能影响到人们的健康。）

"Have you ever noticed how people always use the same colors for the same things?" says Verity.（2）"Our toothpaste is always white or blue or maybe red. It's never green. Why not? For some reason we think that blue and white is clean, while we think of green products as being a bit disgusting.（为什么我们用的牙膏通常是蓝色、白色或红色的而不是绿色的呢？因为人们一般认为蓝色和白色很干净，而绿色则有点儿让人感到厌恶。）It's the same for businesses.（3）We respect a company which writes its name in blue or black, but we don't respect one that uses pink or orange.（那些用黑色或蓝色写公司名称的公司往往会得到人们的尊重，而用粉色或橙色写自己名称的公司就得不到人们的尊重。）People who design new products can use these ideas to influence what we buy.

During this four-part series, Verity studies eight different colors, two colors in each program. She meets people who work in all aspects of the color industry, from people who design food packets，to people who name the colors of lipsticks. Some of the people she meets clearly have very little scientific knowledge to support their ideas. However, she also interviews real scientists who are studying the effects of green and red lights on mice, with some surprising results.

【核心词汇】

disgusting a.令人厌恶的

emotion n.情感，情绪

interview v.采访；面试

lipstick n. 口红,唇膏

toothpaste n.牙膏

for some reason 由于某种原因