【正文】 ngs on the pages are perfectly fine. Workbooks and study guides are generally not purchased back unless they are free of all markings. No sales receipt is required for these books. Bookstore Hours Monday— Thursday 9:00am— 6:00pm Friday 9:00am— 5:00pm Saturday and Sunday Closed 21. The intended readers of this passage are _______. A. Book dealers B. University students C. Publishers D. Campus staff 22. The underlined word “ defective” can best be replaced by ________. A. faulty B. adapted C. new D. latest 23. Bookie’s will not buy back your used textbook if _______. A. you have lost the sales receipt B. there are markings and notes on the pages C. the cover of the book is missing D. you miss the last day for return 24. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage？ A. Bookie’s is a place for students to buy their course textbooks. B. Student cards are needed to get a discount for the textbooks. C. Books bought in bookie’s can be returned within ten working days. D. Books bought back are processed by the staff and sold to students. B We may all have some experiences like this. We have gone away from “mad men” in the street, only to realize that they are in fact using a Bluetooth headset. Now a new University of Pennsylvania study shows that muttering can actually help people find lost objects— in other words, saying the name of an object helps you find it more quickly. Previous work has suggested that speaking aloud while performing stepbystep tasks, like tying shoelaces, can help kids guide their behavior and let them focus on the job in hand. However, scientists were not sure if speaking aloud when performing tasks could help adults in the same way, especially when looking for particular objects. Professor Gary Lupan and Daniel Swingley, writing for the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, carried out some experiments. They hopes to give the fact that next time you lose your keys, muttering “keys, keys, keys” can in fact help you find them. Inspired by viewing people muttering to themselves as they try to find things like peanut butter in a supermarket, the researchers conducted two experiments to see if this actually worked. In the first, participants were shown 20 pictures of various objects and were asked to find a certain one, with some seeing a text label(標簽 ) telling them what they were looking for. These participants were then asked to search for the object again while saying the word to themselves, with results showing that saying it aloud helped people find the object more quickly. The second experiment saw participants performing a shopping task, where they were shown photographs of items monly found on supermarket shelves. They were asked to find all examples of a particular item, so if they were asked for apples they had to find all the bags of apples, as quickly as possible. The researchers found that there was also an advantage in saying the name of the product aloud when they were searching for something family. The University of Pennsylvania study shows that muttering can actually help people reach the target object— in other words, muttering to oneself helps to focus the mind on something. It works more effectively than seeing a written description. Repeating the word over and over again helps even more. 25. The second paragraph tells us that __________. A. muttering helps people to control their behavior B. muttering has the same effect on both kids and adults C. it is really hard to carry out the experiments on adults D. it is easier for kids to do stepbystep tasks by muttering 26. According to passage, uttering can help people in a way that __________. A. it pletely controls people’s mind B. it directly explains people’s behavior C. they concentrate more on their job at hand D. they reduce their pressure from their mind 27. The two experiments mentioned in the passage show that __________. A. participants were better at doing the shopping task B. it took the participants the same time to find the objects C. showing pictures of the items helped find them more quickly D. participants saying aloud the word found the object more quickly 28. The passage is written mainly to tell us __________. A. effects of muttering B. how to find lost objects C. what to mutter to yourself D. methods of remembering objects C Most students are also workers in colleges around the country. The reality of college can be pretty different from the images presented in movies and television. Instead of the students