Psychologists(心理學(xué)家) have known 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. Professor Remi Radel wanted to investigate(look into) how this happens -- whether it's right away, as the brain receives signals from the eyes, or a little later, as the brain's higher-level thinking processes get involved.
Radel chose 42 students and each student was told to arrive at the lab at noon after three or four hours of not eating on the day of the test. 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. 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. A quarter of the words were food-related. After each word, the person was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of two words they'd seen -- a food-related word like gateau (cake) or a neutral (中性的) word like bateau (boat).
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 (直覺), Radel says—it's not because of some kind of processing happening in the brain after you've already figured out what you're looking at.
"This is something great to me, that humans can really realize what they need or what they hope for, to know that our brain can really arrange for our motives and needs," Radel says. "There is something inside us that selects information in the world to make life easier.”
小題1:The purpose of Radel's research is to let us know ____.
A．how our thinking has effect on our senses happens
B．what it is the good time for students to have lunch
C．whether poorer children think coins are larger than they are
D．whether hungry people think pictures of food are brighter
小題2:In the experiment 20 words that flashed on the screen had something to do with “____”.
A．boatB．food C．mind D．weather
小題3:Which of the following is true about the experiment?
A．The students should stare at the words in the book.
B．Each word appeared slowly in order that the participant could read it exactly.
C．After each word flashed on the screen, the person was asked to finish two tasks.
D．On the day of the test, all the students were very hungry because of the delay of their lunch.
小題4:What does the new study find?
A．Actually our brain can arrange for our motives and needs.
B．In the experiment the brain was totally controlled by the senses.
C．People who had just eaten saw all the words more clearly than hungry people.
D．The participants saw the words look different long after the brain dealt with the information.

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:A

試題分析：
小題1:A 推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第一段:Psychologists have known that what's going on inside
our head affects our senses.可得答案。
小題2:B 事實判斷題。根據(jù)第三段:One by one, 80 words flashed on the screen. A quarter of the words were food-related.可知答案。
小題3:C 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第三段:After each word, the person was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of two words they'd seen—a food-related word like gateau (cake) or a neutral (中性的) word like bateau (boat).可得答案。
小題4:A事實判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段第一句話"This is something great to me, that humans can really realize what they need or what they hope for, to know that our brain can really arrange for our motives and needs,"可知答案。
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