6．When choosing the perfect house，many people choose high ceilings and a sense of space，despite high price and the higher cost of heating expense in the winter．Now a new study suggests that tall rooms excite the brain and encourage people to explore space，based on previous research that high ceilings are linked to a sense of freedom．A psychologist thinks that the combination of a room that promotes free thinking and is stimulating to the senses，explains why people choose that kind of homes．
Dr．Oshin Vartanian of the University of Toronto-Scarborough，told Fast Design："On the one hand，rooms with high ceilings improve exploration．"An international study，led by Dr．Vartanian scanned the brains of volunteers while they looked at images of 200 rooms，half of which had high ceilings．Participants indicated whether each image was beautiful or not while in the MRI scanner and the experts found that people were more likely to find spaces with high ceilings attractive，than those with low ceilings．This suggests that high ceilings capture people's attention and improve the senses，encouraging people to explore the space they are in．But because the results didn't show any difference in brain regions linked to pleasure or emotion，the study，published in journal of environmental psychology，hints that high ceilings don't instantly put people in a good mood．
In 2007，another study，published in Journal of Consumer Research，revealed that the height of ceilings affects how people think．Marketing experts Joan Meyers-Levy and Rui Zhu modified the height of ceilings in rooms to study how participants responded．They discovered that high ceilings seem to cause people to think more freely，encouraging creativity and abstraction，while lower ceilings promoted confined thinking．For example，one experiment placed volunteers in a room with a high 3-meter ceiling，while asking them to solve anagrams．They were able to complete work puzzles faster than those in a room with a lower ceiling．
Dr．Vartanian said，"Knowing that people's preference for rooms with higher ceilings might be driven by the ability of those spaces to promote visuospatial exploration helps partly explain why people opt to live in such spaces．"
33．What is the bes t title of the passage？A
A．Why do we love high ceilings？
B．What caused high house price？
C．How do we feel in the winter？
D．When will people feel excited？
34．From the passage，we can know high ceilings make peopleB．
A．explore the cost
B．think more freely
C．see more colors
D．get more homes
35．Dr．Vartanian carried out his study byB．
A．promoting visuospatial exploration
B．comparing volunteers'scanning pictures of brains
C．looking at images of 200 rooms
D．capturing attention and stimulating the senses．
分析 本文是一篇科教类阅读，属于说明文．一项新的研究表明，高房间激发大脑，鼓励人们探索空间，在以前的研究中，高高的天花板与自由感相关联，本文以此展开，主要谈论了我们为什么爱高高的天花板？
解答 33．A．主旨大意题．阅读全文，根据全文内容可知，一项新的研究表明，高房间激发大脑，鼓励人们探索空间，在以前的研究中，高高的天花板与自由感相关联，本文以此展开，主要谈论了我们为什么爱高高的天花板？故选A．
34．B．细节理解题．根据上文实验表明以及得出的结论Knowing that people's preference for rooms with higher ceilings might be driven by the ability of those spaces to promote visuospatial exploration helps partly explain why people opt to live in such spaces．可知，高高的天花板让人们更自由地思考．故选B．
35．B．细节理解题．根据Participants indicated whether each image was beautiful or not while in the MRI scanner and the experts found that people were more likely to find spaces with high ceilings attractive，than those with low ceilings．可知，Dr．Vartanian开展他的研究通过比较扫描志愿者大脑的照片．故选B．
点评 本文是一篇科教类阅读，题目涉及多道细节理解题，主旨大意题．做题时学生应仔细阅读原文，把握文章主要内容，联系文章上下文内容并结合所给选项含义，从中选出正确答案，一定要做到有理有据，切忌胡乱猜测．
