What is your favourite colour? Do you like yellow, orange, red? If you do, you must be an optimist(乐观者), a leader, an active person who enjoys life, people and excitement. Do you prefer greys and blues? Then you are probably quiet, shy and you would rather follow than lead. If you love green, you are strong-minded and determined. You wish to succeed and want other people to see you are successful. At least this is what psychologists(心理学家)tell us, and they should know, because they have been seriously studying the meaning of colour preference, and the influence that colours have on human beings. They tell us that we don’t choose our favourite colours as we grow up. If you happen to love brown, you did so as soon as you opened your eyes, or at least as soon as you could see clearly.
A yellow room makes us feel more cheerful and more comfortable than a dark green one, and a red dress brings warmth and cheer to the saddest winter day. On the other hand, black is depressing. Light and bright colours make people not only happier but more active. It is a fact that factory workers work better, harder, and have fewer accidents when their machines and painted orange rather than black or dark grey.
Remember, then, that if you feel low, you can always brighten your day or your life with a new shirt or a few colourful things. Remember also that you will know your friends and your enemies better when you find out what colours they like and dislike. And don’t forget that anyone can guess a lot about your character when you choose a piece of handkerchief(手帕).
【小题1】The author believes in the passage that________.

What is your favourite colour? Do you like yellow, orange, red? If you do, you must be an optimist(乐观者), a leader, an active person who enjoys life, people and excitement. Do you prefer greys and blues? Then you are probably quiet, shy and you would rather follow than lead. If you love green, you are strong-minded and determined. You wish to succeed and want other people to see you are successful. At least this is what psychologists(心理学家)tell us, and they should know, because they have been seriously studying the meaning of colour preference, and the influence that colours have on human beings. They tell us that we don’t choose our favourite colours as we grow up. If you happen to love brown, you did so as soon as you opened your eyes, or at least as soon as you could see clearly.

A yellow room makes us feel more cheerful and more comfortable than a dark green one, and a red dress brings warmth and cheer to the saddest winter day. On the other hand, black is depressing. Light and bright colours make people not only happier but more active. It is a fact that factory workers work better, harder, and have fewer accidents when their machines and painted orange rather than black or dark grey.

Remember, then, that if you feel low, you can always brighten your day or your life with a new shirt or a few colourful things. Remember also that you will know your friends and your enemies better when you find out what colours they like and dislike. And don’t forget that anyone can guess a lot about your character when you choose a piece of handkerchief(手帕).

1.The author believes in the passage that________.

A．anyone can choose his color preference in his life

B．no one can choose his color preference in his life

C．anyone is born with his color preference

D．no one is born with his color preference

2.According to the passage, ________.

A．if you enjoy life, you must like yellow, orange and red

B．when you are quiet, you must prefer grays and blues

C．if you love green, you usually do what you have decided

D．if you love pink, you often go to flower shops

3.Psychologists study the meaning of color preference because________.

A．colors may affect the emotional states of the people

B．colors may decide the results of our work and study

C．color preference can tell you who your friends are

D．color preference can help you to see through your enemies

4.Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the passage?

A．It is no proper to wear a red dress in summer.

B．We feel happier and more active if we see light and bright colors.

C．All the machines in a factory are painted orange.

D．No machines in a factory are painted black.

5.The main idea of this passage is ________.

A．color preference has something to do with one’s character

B．colors have effects on human psychological states

C．you will know your friends or your enemies by knowing the colors they like

D．all of the above.

Fear may be felt in the heart as well as in the head, according to a study that has found a link between the cycles of a beating heart and the chance of someone feeling fear.

?? Tests on healthy volunteers found that they were more likely to feel a sense of fear at the moment when their hearts are contracting(收缩) and pumping（向---送出） blood around their bodies, compared with the point when the heartbeat is relaxed. Scientists say the results suggest that the heart is able to influence how the brain responds to a fearful event, depending on which point it is at in its regular cycle of contraction and relaxation.

??? Sarah Garfinkel at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School said: "Our study shows for the first time that the way in which we deal with fear is different depending on when we see fearful pictures in relation to our heart."

??? The study tested 20 healthy volunteers on their reactions to fear as they were shown pictures of fearful faces. Dr Garfinkel said, "The study showed that fearful faces are better noticed when the heart is pumping than when it is relaxed. So our hearts can also affect what we see and what we don't see - and guide whether we see fear."

?? To further understand this relationship, the scientists also used a brain scanner(扫描仪) to show how the brain influences the way the heart changes a person's feeling of fear. "We have found an important mechanism by which the heart and brain ‘speak’ to each other to change our feelings and reduce fear," Dr Garfinkel said.

?? "We hope that by increasing our understanding about how fear is dealt with and ways that it could be reduced, we may be able to develop more successful treatments for anxiety disorders, and also for those for those who may be suffering from serious stress disorder."

1.What is the finding of the study?

A. fear has something to do with one's health.

B. fear is a result of one's relaxed heartbeat.

C. One's heart affects how he feels fear.

D. One’s fast heartbeats are likely to cause fear.

2.When are people more likely to feel a sense of fear ?

A. When the heartbeat is relaxed.

B. When their hearts are contracting.

C. When people are tired.

D. When people are happy.

3.The study was carried out by analyzing （分析）_______.

A. the time volunteers saw fearful pictures and their health conditions

B. volunteers' heartbeats when they saw terrible pictures

C. volunteers' reactions to horrible pictures and data form their brain scans

D. different pictures shown to volunteers and their heart-brain communication

4.Which of the following is closest in meaning to "mechanism" in Paragraph 6?

A. Order.           B. Machine.          C. Treatment.          D. System.

5.This study may be useful to _______.

A. treating anxiety and stress better

B. explaining the cycle of fear and anxiety

C. finding the sky to the heart-brain communication

D. understanding different fears in our hearts and heads