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第十一篇When our Eyes Serve our Stomach
Our senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what's going on in the world;they're affected
by what's going on in otir heads, A new study finds that hungry people see food-related words
more clearly than people who've just eaten.
Psychologists have known for decades that what's going on,inside our head affects our senses.
For example,poorer cliildren think coins are larger than they are, and hungry people think
pictures of food are brighter, Remi Radel of University of Nice Sopbia-Antipolis, France, wanted
to investigate how this happens. Does it happen right away as the brain receives signals from the
eyes or a little later as the brain's high-level thinking processes get involved.
Radel recruited 42 students with a normal body mass index.On the day of his or her rest,each
student was told to arrive at the lab at noon after three or four hours of not eating. Then they were
told there was a delay. Some were told to come back in 10 minutes;others were given an hour to
get lunch first.So half the students were hungry when they did the experiment and the other half
had just eaten.
For the experiment,the participant looked at a computer screen. One by one ,80 words flashed
on the screen for about 1/300th of a second each. They flashed at so small a size that the students
could only consciously perceive. A quarter of the words were food-related. After each word ,
eachperson was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of two words they'd
seen -a food-related word like cake or a neutral word like boat. Each word appeared too briefly for
the participant to really read it.
Hungry people saw the food-related words as brighter and were better at identifying food-related
words. Because the word appeared too quickly for them to be reliably seen, this means that the
difference is in perception not in thinking processes,Radel says.
"This is something great to me, Humans can really perceive what they need or what they strive
for. From the experiment,1 know that our brain can really be at the disposal of 6 our motives and
needs , " Radel says.
词汇：
threshold n. 起点，开端；门槛 disposal n. 处理，处置：配置
neutral adj.中性的；中立的 motive n. 动机，目的
strive v. 努力.力求：斗争
注释：
1.Our senses aren't just delivering a strict view of „in our heads ：这个句子的大概意思是：我们的五官感觉不仅仅让我们感知世界；五官感觉还受大脑活动的影响。
2.university of Nice Sophia-Antipolis ：法国尼斯· 索菲亚· 安提波利斯大学t 简称尼斯大学1965年经法国政令正式宣布成立。尼斯大学在尼斯市设有7 处主校园，另外，还在萦菲亚 ，安提波利斯市( Sophia Antipolis) 、戛纳市( Cannes) 和芒东市( Menton) 设有校区。索菲亚 ·安提波利斯是位于尼斯市西南侧的科技园区，是许多高等学府的所在地。
3.body mass index ：身体质量指数
4.at the threshold of：当„„快要开始时
5.in perception ：感知
6.at the disposalof：受到„„的控制
练习：
1. What does the new study mentioned in Paragraph 1 find?
A Hungry people see every word more clearly than ordinary people.
B Hungry people are always thinking of food-related words.
C Hungrypeople are more sensitive to food-related words than stomach-full people.
D Hungry people do not have lower-level of thinking process.
2. Why was there a delay on the day of the experiment?
A Because hungry people needed time to fill their stomach.
B Because Radel wanted to create two groups of testees,hungry and non-hungry.
C Because noon was not the right time for any experiment.
D Because Radel needed time to select participants in terms of body mass index.
3. What does the writer want to tell us?
A Human's senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what's going on in the world.
B What's perceived by our senses affects onr way of thinking.
C Human brains can really be at the disposal of our motives and needs.
D Thinking processes guarantee the normal functions of our senses.
4. What did the results of the experiment indicate?
A 80 words flashed on the screen too fast for the participant to intentionally perceive.
B Hungry people were better at identifying neutral words.
C People who bad just eaten were better at identifying food-related words.
D The participants could barely perceive what they needed or wbat they strived for.
5. What can we infer from the passage?
A 42 participants are too small a number for a serious investigation.
B An experiment with hungry and non-hungry participants is not reliable.
C Our thinking proeesses are independent of our senses.
D Humans can perceive what they need without involving high-level thinking processes.
答案与题解：
1.C 第一段第二句是本题答案的依据。饥肠辘辘的人只是看food-related words 比较清楚.选
项C 的句意与上述句子的意思完全一致，是答案。选项A 说的是every word.所以不是答
案。选项B 和D 文章中没有提到。
2. B 答案的根据可在第三段找到。Radel为了保证42 名学生到达实验室时是空腹，所以要求他们中午到达。然后告诉一部分学生实验时间推迟了，请他们10 分钟后再来。他又请另外一部分学生用午餐。Radel用推迟实验的方法造就了两组实验者，即饥饿组与饱食组。选项B 是答案.
