仔细阅读 第三次
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机电仔细阅读课后练习题
第三次
Directions:
There are 2 passages in this section.
Each passage is followed by some questions or
unfinished statements. For each of them
there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
You should
decide on the best choice
and choose which option is the suitable
answer.
Passage
1
Television is often viewed
as an anti-intellectual medium. But truly clever
people know how to
use even the most
unpromising material, and that is what Val Curtis
and her colleagues at the London
School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have done. They
employed the mass market appeal of TV
to test a long held, but unproven,
hypothesis(
假
设
): that the
emotion of disgust evolved to protect
people from disease.
They
set
up
their
experiment
in
October
2007,
by
publicizing
it
on
a
BBC
program
called
个
人介绍的
)
details, to view a series of 20 pictures and rate
each of them for disgustingness on a scale
of one to five. They were also asked to
choose, from a list of possible candidates, with
whom they
would least like to share a
toothbrush.
The results showed that in
all seven pairs, the disease distinct pictures
were more disgusting
than their
counterparts. For things like the apparent
depiction of bodily fluids, or of a face that had
been
distinguishing than an
empty one, and a louse more disgusting than a
wasp.
These
last
results
confirmed
Dr
Curtis's
suspicion
that
disgust
is
not,
as
many
disgust
researchers believe, just a way of
avoiding eating disease bearing materials. Rather,
it extends to
threats that might be
contagious(
传染性的
). Indeed,
one result of the study was to show that the
young are easier to disgust than the
old. Another result was that women are more easily
disgusted
than men. Both of these make
evolutionary sense. The young have more
reproductive potential than
the old, so
should be more careful about what they touch and
eat. And women are usually burdened
with bringing up the children, so have
to be disgusted on their offspring's behalf, as
well as their
own.
The
results of the toothbrush study made similar
sense. Strangers are more likely to carry new
bacteria than acquaintances. Hence, of
the available choices of toothbrush partner, a
postman came
off worst, and a lover
best. A brush notionally belonging to a weatherman
was, however, preferred
to the boss's.
Clearly the British feel more intimacy with the
former than the later. Perhaps it might
have been instructive to include a
famous television personality among the choices?
1.
In the first
paragraph television is mentioned to .
A.
prove that
what some intellectuals had claimed is wrong
B.
show that TV
is an essential part of British people's daily
life
C.
demonstrate that mass media is a very
profitable industry
D.
introduce the media through which the
survey was advertised
2.
The experiment is chiefly done by
.
A.
watching the TV program called
B.
visiting
different websites and making matches between
pictures and numbers
C.
rating various photos with numbers and
selecting from a choice list