C. find out the role taste preference plays in a person’s drinking
D. reveal which cola is more to the liking of the drinkers
65. It is implied but not stated in the first paragraph that ________.
A. the competition between the two colas is very strong
B. blind tasting is necessary for identifying fans
C. the purpose of taste tests is to promote the sale of colas
D. the improvement of quality is the chief concern of the two cola companies
66. The word “burnout” (Line3, Para. 5) refers to the state of _________.
A. being seriously burnt in the skin
B. being badly damaged by fire
C. being unable to function because of excessive use
D. being unable to burn for lack of fuel
67. The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to ________.
A. emphasize that taste and price are closely related to each other
B. recommend that blind tasting be introduced in the quality control of colas
C. show that taste preference is highly subjective
D. argue that taste testing is an important marketing strategy
D
Our senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what’s going on in the world; they're affected by what’s going on in our heads. A n ew study finds that hungry people see food-related words more clearly than people who've just eaten.
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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. Rémi 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-1evel 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 participant 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 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, Radel 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.
68. 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 testers, 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.
69. 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 our 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.
70. 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 participants is not reliable.
C. Our thinking processes are independent of our senses.
D. Humans call perceive what they need without involving high-level thinking processes
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The Dark Age of Greece
71 Among early civilizations, we call the low points "dark ages", because civilizations often dropped to such a low level that it is hard to get an accurate picture of their history during these periods. During a dark age, a civilization may not have produced monuments, statue, or other objects which we use to learn about early civilizations.
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8 The little that we know about this period has been learned from archaeology. It seems that civilization became much less advanced. The pottery from this period is much simpler and less artistic. This suggests that there was lack of wealthy people to buy higher quality products.
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