1．考生要认真填写密封线内的区（县）名称、毕业学校、姓名、报名号、准考证号。

55. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?

   A. Preferences for Colors                                B. The Blind and Colors

   C. Colors and Sales                                     D. Colors and Feelings

第Ⅱ卷   （非机读卷   共 50分）

考生须知：

54. The most effective color in the passage for warning people is_______.

   A. dark blue           B. bright yellow            C. green         D. red

53. It can be inferred from the passage that________.

   A. blind people cannot sense color differences

   B. foods sell well in green or blue wrappings

   C. what color we prefer depends on our state of mind

   D. a bright yellow has exactly the opposite effect to red

52. This passage tells us that salesmen have________.

   A. developed a special subject of color psychology

   B. tried out colors on blind people

   C. discovered the relationship between color and psychology

   D. found that colors affect sales

51. Which of the following is true?

   A. Magazines are not influential to American teenagers at all.

   B. American teenagers don’t worry about the cost of college education.

   C. “Cover Girl” is probably a kind of film.

   D. “Home Improve” is popular with boys and girls.

C

   The fact that blind people can see things by using other parts of their bodies apart from(除了) their eyes may help us to understand our feeling about colors. If they can sense color differences, then perhaps we, too, are affected by colors without knowing it.

   Salesmen have discovered by experience over a long period of time that sugar sells badly in green wrappings(包装), that blue foods are considered not agreeable to the taste, and that cosmetics(化妆品) should never be packed in brown. These discoveries have grown into a whole subject of color psychology (心理学). Some of our preferences for colors are clearly psychological.. Dark blue is the color of the night sky and therefore connected with calm, while yellow is a day color connected with energy and encouragement. Experiments have shown that colors, partly because they are connected with psychology, also have a direct effect(影响) on people's mind. People in bright red surroundings show an increase in breathing speed, heart-beat and blood pressure; red is exciting. Pure blue has exactly the opposite effect; it is a calming color. Being exciting, red was chosen as the signal for danger, but a closer study shows that a bright yellow can produce a more basic state of alarm, so fire engines in some advanced areas are now rushing around in bright yellow colors that stop buses, trucks and cars.

50. What are American teenagers the most concerned about?

   A. Getting into trouble with drugs.

   B. Violence in society.

   C. Not having enough money to buy the things they want.

   D. The cost of college education.

49. Among the coolest brands, boys and girls have the same ideas about _______ brands.

   A. one                    B. two                          C. three                 D. four

48. ______ are the most influential source to American teenagers.

   A. Internets             B. TV/Movies               C. Schools             D. Parents

47. They usually study their lessons until eleven o'clock _______ at night.

   A. in the reading rooms                       B. at home

   C. in their classrooms                         D. on the computers

B

Influential sources(来源) to American teenagers

item

TV/movies

Friends

Schools

Mothers

Internets

Fathers

Magazines

%

49

48

41

38

52

31

26

What are the coolest brands（品牌）and favorite TV shows?

Coolest Brands

Favorite TV Shows

Boys

Girls

Boys

Girls

Nike

Nike

“The Simpsons”

“Home Improve”

“Seinfeld”

“South Park”

“Dawson’s Creek”

“Home Improve”

“Friends”

“The Simpsons”

Adidas

Adidas

Tommy

Hilfiger

Tommy

Hilfiger

Sony

Gap

Pepsi

Cover Girl

How concerned（关心的）are they about the following?

Not having enough money to buy the things they want

34%

The cost of college education

54%

Violence（暴力）in society

59%

Not being sure about the future chances

43%

Getting into trouble with drugs(毒品)

25%