短信预约提醒成功
理工C级
第十一篇
When Our Eyes Serve Our Stomach
(考题预测班 第5讲)
Our senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what's going on in the worid; 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 Sophia-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 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 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 panicipant looked at a computer screen.One by one,80 words flashed on the screen for about l/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 seen- a food-related word like cake or neutral word like boat.Eachword 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 qulckly for them to be reliably seen,this rneans that the difference is in perception,not in percesses,Radel says.
“This is something great to me.Humans can really perceive what they need or what they they strive for.From the experiment,I know our brain can really be at the disposal of 6 our motives and needs,”Radel says.
词汇：
Threshold n.起点，开端，门槛 disposal n.处理，处置，配置
Neutral adj.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 aren't just delivering a strict view of…in our head：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 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，还在索菲亚‘安提波利斯市( Sophia Antipolis)、蔓纳市(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 in percepEion:感知
6 at the disposal of:受到……的控制
练习：
l What does the new study mentioned in Paragraph l 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 of thinking process
2 Why was there a delay on the day of the experiment?
A.Because hungry people needecl time to fill their stomach
B.Because Radel wanLed to create two groups of testees.hungry and non-hungry
C.Because noon was noL the right time for any experiment
D.Because Radel needed time to select pafflicipants in terms of body mass index
3 What does the writer want to tell us?
A.Human's senses aren't just delivering a s(rict view of what's going on in the worid
B.What's perceived by our senses affects our way of thinking
C.Human brains can really be at the disposal of our motives and needs
D.Thinking prOCeSse8 guaraIltee me no珊al funCt10ns of our SenSe8
4 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
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 pmlicipants 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
答案与题解：
l.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-related words比较清楚，选项C的甸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。然后告诉一部分学牛实验时间推迟了，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.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，因此小能选。本文最后一句给出了直接的答案。
4.A第四段第_行中consciously与A项中的iruentionally是同义词。B项neutral意思为“中性的”，在本文中的意思是与food-related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”，因此也不符合甸意。
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 can really perceive what they need or what they strive for”为选择D项提供了依据。
