2016年职称英语考试试题综合类B级冲刺题

　　第4部分：阅读理解

　　下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每道题后面有4个选项。请根据文章的内容，从每题所给的4个选项中选择个最佳答案，涂在答题卡相应的位置上。

　　根据材料，回答31-36问题

　　第一篇

　　When our Eyes Serve our Stomach

　　Our senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what's going on in the word; they're affected by what's going on in our heads. A new study finds that hungry people see food-related words more clearly than people who've just eaten.

　　Psychologists have known for decades that what's going on, inside our head affects our senses. 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 Sopbia-Antipolis, France, wanted to investigate how this happens. Does it happen right away as the brain receives signals from the eyes or a little later as the brain's 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. 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, 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, each person was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of two words they'd seena 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 seen, this means that the difference is in perception not in thinking processes, Adel says.

　　"This is something great to me, Humans can really perceive what they need or what they strive for. From the experiment, I know that our brain can really be at the disposal of our motives and needs," Radel says.

　　31、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.Hungry people are more sensitive to food-related words than stomach-fullpeople.

　　D.Hungry people do not have lower-level of thinking process.

　　32、What have psychologists known for a long time____ ?

　　A.Poorer children think coins are larger than they are.

　　B.Hungry people think pictures of food are brighter.

　　C.Hungry people see food-related words more clearly.

　　D.What we think inside our head affects what we sense.

　　33、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.

　　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.

　　34、What did the results of the experiment indicate____?

　　A.80 words flashed on the screen too fast for the participant to intentionally 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.

　　35、What does the writer want to tell us____?

　　A.Human's senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what's going on in the world.

　　B.What's perceived by our senses affects onr 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.