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【題目】It’s surprising how much simple movements of the body can affect the way we think. Using expansive gestures with open arms makes us feel more powerful, crossing your arms makes you more determined and lying down can bring more insights(領悟).

So if moving the body can have these effects, what about the clothes we wear? We’re all well aware of how dressing up in different ways can make us feel more attractive, sporty or professional, depending on the clothes we wear, but can the clothes actually change cognitive (認知的)performance or is it just a feeling?

Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people’s powers of attention. The idea is that white coats are associated with scientists, who are in turn though to have close attention to detail.

What they found was that people wearing white coats performed better than those who weren’t. Indeed, they made only half as many errors as those wearing their own clothes on the Stroop Test( one way of measuring attention). The researchers call the effect “enclothed cognition,” suggesting that all manner of different clothes probably affect our cognition in many different ways.

This opens the way for all sorts of clothes-based experiments. Is the writer who wears a fedora more creative? Is the psychologist wearing little round glasses and smoking a cigar more insightful? Does a chef’s hat make the resultant food taste better?

From now on I will only be editing articles for PsyBlog while wearing a white coat to help keep the typing error count low. Hopefully you will be doing your part by reading PsyBlog in a cap and gown.(學位服).

【1】What is the main idea of the text?

A. Body movements change the way people think

B. How people dress has an influence on their feelings

C. What people wear can affect their cognitive performance

D. People doing different jobs should wear different clothes

【2】Adam and Galinsky’s experiment tested the effect of clothes on their wearers’___________.

A. insights B. movements

C. attention D. appearance

【3】How does the author sound in the last paragraph?

A. Academic B. Humorous

C. Formal D. Hopeful

Answer 1

【答案】can the clothes actually change cognitive performance or is it just a feeling.C選項What people wear can affect their cognitive performance

【解析】本文講述了Adam和Galinsky所做的一個關于穿著白大褂人們注意力的實驗。實驗顯示穿白大褂的人表現(xiàn)更為出色，他們的錯誤率是穿普通衣服的人的一半。得出結論：著裝影響人的認知表現(xiàn)。

【1】主旨大意題。根據第二段but can the clothes actually change cognitive performance or is it just a feeling及下文所做的實驗可知，本文主要講述著裝對人認知表現(xiàn)的影響。故選C。

【2】事實細節(jié)題。根據第三段Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people’s powers of attention.中的attention及第四段Indeed, … on the Stroop Test (one way of measuring attention)的attention.可知，Adam和Galinsky的實驗是測試著裝對人們注意力的影響。A. insights 洞察力； B. movements 移動；C. attention 注意力； D. appearance 外表。故選C。

【3】推理判斷題。作者全文在講述著裝影響人的認知表現(xiàn)這一理論，最后一段作者說自己以后要穿白大褂上班編輯文章，以減少打字錯誤。他希望讀者也能帶上學士帽、穿上學位服閱讀PsyBlog的文章。由此可推斷出作者是用一種幽默的語氣調侃著裝認知理論。A. Academic 學士的； B. Humorous 幽默的；C. Formal 正式的； D. Hopeful 有希望的。故選B。