If you exhibit positive characteristics such as honesty and helpfulness, the chances are that you will be thought as a good-looking person, for a new study has found that the perception (认知) of physical attractiveness is influenced by a person's personality.
The study, which was led by Gary W.Lewandowski, has found that people who exhibit negative characteristics, such as unfairness and rudeness, appear to be less physically attractive to observers.In the study, the participants viewed photographs of opposite-sex individuals and rated them for attractiveness before and after being provided with information about their personalities.
After personality information was received, participants also rated the probability of each individual' s becoming a friend and a dating partner.Information on personality was found to significantly change the probability, showing that cognitive (认知的) processes modify (修改) judgments of attractiveness.
"Thinking a person as having a desirable personality makes the person more suitable in general as a close relationship partner of any kind," said Lewandowski.
The findings show that a positive personality leads to greater expectation of becoming friends, which leads to greater expectation of becoming romantic partners and, finally, to being viewed as more physically attractive.The findings remained consistent regardless of how "attractive" the individual was formerly thought to be or of the participants' current relationship status.
"This research provides a positive outcome by reminding people that personality goes a long way toward determining your attractiveness; it can even change people's impressions of how good-looking you are," said Lewandowski.In the study the participants were required to _____.
A.try to make friends with each other |
B.try to prove positive characters make people more attractive |
C.exhibit negative characters such as unfairness and rudeness |
D.rate one's attractiveness by photos before and after knowing her or his personality |
Which of the following is WRONG according to the passage?
A.The research reminds people to pay more attention to the personality. |
B.Personality can change people's impressions of one's appearance. |
C.The judgment of one's attractiveness always stays unchanged. |
D.Positive personality may lead to more friends. |
The passage is written in a(n) _____ tone.
A.subjective | B.objective | C.skeptical | D.negative |
Who are the intended readers of this passage?
A.People with positive characteristics. |
B.Good-looking people. |
C.People with negative characteristics. |
D.General people. |
America is growing older. Fifty - eight years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United States were 65 or older. To day, 10 out of every 100 Americans are over 65. The aging of the population will affect(影响)American society in many ways—education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the graying of America has made us a very different society—one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior(行为) is suitable(合适)at various , ages.
A person s age no longer tells you anything about his/her social position, marriage or health. There’s no longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that kept us on time and told us when to go to school, get a job, or stop working isn’t as strong as it used to be. It doesn’t surprise us to hear of a 29 - year - old university president or a 35 - year -old grandmother, or a 70 year - old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing.
Many people say, “I am much younger than my mother— or my father— was at my age. ”No one says“Act your age” any more. We’ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways.
67.It can be learnt from the text that the aging of the population in America ________ .
A. has made people feel younger
B. has changed people’s social position
C. has changed people’s understanding of age
D. has slowed down the country’s social development
68.The underlined word “one” refers to ________ .
A. a society B. America
C. a place D. population
69.“Act your age” means people should ________ .
A. be active when they are old
B. do the right thing at the right age
C. show respect for their parents young or old
D. take more physical exercise suitable to their age
70.If a 25 - year - old man becomes general manager of a big firm, the writer of the text would most probably consider it ________ .
A. normal B. wonderful
C. unbelievable D. unreasonable
The following are four forms about medicine. How to use the medicine is very important. Never take any by mistake.
1)Take the medicine with water, followed by one tablet every eight hours, as required. For further night - time and early morning, take two tablets at bedtime. Do not take more than six tablets in 24 hours. For Children six to twelve years old, go to your doctor for advice. Reduce dosage if nervousness, restlessness or sleeplessness takes place.
2)Each pill of the medicine taken three times every day for fourteen years old. As usual, a pill 6∶00 a. m., before breakfast, one before 11∶00 and one before sleep. Not for children under six years old and old persons with heart attack.
3)The medicine for a person with a fever. Once two pills a day before sleep for adult. Not take the medicine without fever. Half for Children under 12 years old. Children with a high fever, go to see a doctor.
4)The medicine taken three times a day, once five pills for adult with a cold. Half of the pills for children 10 years old. Take the medicine before breakfast, lunch, supper or before sleep.
60.Obviously a kind of medicine can’t be proper for ________, judging from the information.
A. children over twelve years old
B. some old persons with a fever
C. some old persons with heart attack
D. neither adults nor heart attack
61.When a person has a cold, he had better ________ .
A. have about more than fourteen pills a day
B. have twice a day
C. have four times a day
D. have nine pills a day
62.How many kinds of medicine are used for the children six years old?
A. All of them.
B. Three kinds of medicine.
C. Two kinds of medicine.
D. Almost not any medicine.
From the very beginning, Martin felt that he was bound up with(与……紧紧地在一起)his lovely little patient. One day, following some tests , Betty gave the doctor a big hug(拥抱).
A few months later the doctor removed not only the tumour(肿瘤), but also the entire lower left side of Betty’s gum(牙龈)and jawbone. Because Betty was so young, Martin was hopeful that her jawbone might regenerate.
Within three months, Betty’s tumour grew as large as an orange, changing the natural appearance of the left side of her small, delicate ( =" thin;" not strong)face. Soon she couldn’t even close her mouth, and as her eating problems worsened, Betty ‘s weight dropped from 20 kilos to 15. Martin knew from experience that it might invade the brain.
The only other possibility was thorough radiation therapy (放射疗法). Night after night, Betty's father gave her injection, but the tumour remained as big as ever. Then one evening. Morgan noticed that the tumour had begun to change. It was actually becoming smaller! For two months her tumour appeared to be going away for ever. In the coming months, Betty’s tumour continued to appear. She was able to eat solid food once again. Her jawbone was regenerating. The tumour was gone.
67.What do you think the underlined word regenerate means? It means “________”.
A. lose one’s life
B. give a new life to
C. be made by hand
D. pass on from one generation to another
68.If Betty’s jawbone didn’t regenerate, the doctors ________ .
A. would rebuild her jaw
B. would continue the treatment
C. would use new medicine
D. could do nothing else
69.If the brain should be invaded, the result would ________.
A. prevent her growth
B. reduce her weight
C. cause her brain damaged
D. affect her eyesight
70.What did the doctors do two months later?
A. They continued their observations.
B. They gave up the operation on Betty.
C. They found out what caused Betty’s strange disease.
D. They declared that Betty’s strange disease was cured.
A film was at the Circle Five Ranch to film a Marlboro commercial. This is in 1868, before they prohibited cigarette ads from American television. Darrell Winfield was watching the crew set up the equipment. The scene included an actor crossing a river on horseback, but when the time came to shoot, the man was too drunk to ride. Someone from the crews saw Winfield and asked him if he would ride the horse for 50. “Hell, ” said Winfield, “for 50 bucks, I'll jump that damn horse over the moon!”
To people in many countries, Winfield is just a familiar but nameless face, a simple cowboy with an advertising message about a connection between the West and a brand of cigarettes. Few people know that he is advertising message about a connection between the West and a brand of cigarettes. Few people know that he is 55, a family man who’s been married to the same woman for 37 years and has 5 children and 7 grandchildren. Most surprisingly, he’s a real, working cowboy who raises horses in his ranch in Wyoming.
One of the most striking things about the Marlboro Man is that success hasn’t changed him much. He says that complete strangers sometimes come up to him and say, “I’ve met you. know you from somewhere. ”Whenever it happens, he says that he gets embarrassed.
60.Which of the following statements is true?
A. Cigarette ads were prohibited in America.
B. Cigarette ads are prohibited on television in America.
C. Marlboro commercial was prohibited on television.
D. Marlboro commercial was produced on television.
61.What does the word“prohibited”in the first paragraph mean?
A. broadcast B. forbidden
C. produced D. provided
62.When they filmed the ad, ________.
A. Winfield was too drunk.
B. The actor in the ad was too drunk.
C. Winfield was setting up the equipmet.
D. Winfield was riding a horse.
63.From the passage, we know that Winfield was ________.
A. an ordinary man
B. a superstar
C. an actor
D. a rich man
64.When people recognized Winfield, he felt________.
A. excited B. happy
C. interested D. uncomfortable
65.A train car moves along a long straight track. The graph (曲线) shows the position as a function of time for this train. The graph shows that ________.
A. slows down all the time
B. speeds up all the time
C. speeds up part of the time and slows down part of the time
D. moves at a constant speed
66.As the diagram shows, there is a fixed superconductor ring, on the right of which lies a bar magnet. There is no electric current. When the magnet is moved to the right, because of electro-magnetic, induction, a certain electric current is produced. Thus the direction of the electric current is________ .
A. as indicated by the arrowhead in the diagram. When the magnet is moved away, the electric current will soon disappear.
B. as indicated by the arrowhead in the diagram. When the magnet is moved away, the electric current will still remain.
C. in the opposite direction. When the magnet is moved away, the electric current will soon disappear.
D. in the opposite direction. When the magnet is moved away, the electric current will still remain.
Young adult filmmakers all hope to show their works in international festivals like Sundance and Toronto. But what about really young filmmakers who aren’t in film school yet and aren’t, strictly speaking, even adults?
They are at the heart of Wingspan Arts Kids Films Festival, tomorrow, in a setting any director might envy: Lincoln Center. Complete with “red carpet” interviews and various awards, the festival has much in common with events for more experienced moviemakers, except for the age of the participants: about 8 to 18.
“What’s really exciting is that it’s film for kids by kids,” said Cori Gardner, managing director of Wingspan Arts, a nonprofit organization offering youth arts programs in the New York area. This year the festival will include films not only from Wingspan but also from other city organizations and one from a middle school in Arlington, Virginia. “We want to make this a national event,” Ms. Gardner added.
The nine shorts to be shown range from a Claymation biography of B.B. King to a science fiction adventure set in the year 3005. “A lot of the material is really mature,” Ms. Gardner said, talking about films by the New York City branch of Global Action Project, a media arts and leadership-training group. “The Choice is about the history of a family and Master Anti-Smoker is about the dangers of secondhand smoke.” Dream of the Invisibles describes young immigrants’ feelings of both belonging and not belonging in their adopted country.
The festival will end with an open reception at which other films will be shown. These include a music video and full-length film whose title is Pressures.Wingspan Arts Kids Film Festival ____.
A.is organized by a middle school |
B.is as famous as the Toronto Festival |
C.shows films made by children |
D.offers awards to film school students |
Which of the following is true of Wingspan Arts?
A.It helps young filmmakers to make money. |
B.It provides arts projects for young people. |
C.It’s a media arts and leadership-training group. |
D.It’s a national organization for young people. |
The underlined word “shorts” in Paragraph 4 refers to _____.
A.short trousers | B.short kids | C.short films | D.short stories |
Movies to shown in the festival ____.
A.cover different subjects. |
B.focus on kids’ life |
C.are produced by Global Action Project |
D.are directed by Ms. Gardner |
At the end of this film festival, there will be ____.
A.various awards | B.“red carpet” interviews |
C.an open reception | D.a concert at Lincoln Center |