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【正文】 o have a direct psychological effect. People exposed to bright red show an increase in heartbeat, and blood pressure。 red was chosen as the signal for danger, but closer analysis shows that a vivid yellow can produce a more basic state of alertness and alarm, so fire engines and ambulances in some advanced munities are now rushing around in bright yellow color that stop the traffic dead.1. Manufactures found out that color affects sales .A) by experience over a long period of time2. Our preferences for certain colors are .D) partly due to psychological factors3. If people are exposed to bright red, which of the following things does NOT happen?C) They feel afraid.4. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?B) Yellow fire engines have caused many bad accidents in some advanced munities.5. Which of the following could be the most suitable title?D) Color and FeelingsUnit 5 Passage oneAsk Steveland Morris and he’ll tell you that blindness is not necessarily disabling. Steveland was born prematurely and totally without sight in 1950. He became Stevie Wonder – poser, singer, and pianist. The winner of ten Grammy awards, Stevie is widely acclaimed for his outstanding contributions to the music world. As a child, Stevie learned not to think about the things he could not do, but to concentrate on the thing that he could do. His parents encouraged him to join his sighted brothers in as many activities as possible. They also helped him to sharpen his sense of hearing, the sense upon which the visually disabled are so dependent.Because sound was so important to him, Stevie began at an early age to experiment with different kinds of sound. He would bang things together and then imitate the sound with his voice. Often relying on sound for entertainment, he sang, beat on toy drums, played a toy harmonica（口琴）, and listened to the radio.Stevie soon graduated from toy instruments to real instruments. He first learned to play the drums. He then mastered the harmonica and the piano. He became a member of the junior church choir and the leading singer. In the evenings and on weekends, Stevie would play different instruments and sing popular rhythm and blues runes on the front porches of neighbors’ homes.One of Stevie’s sessions was overheard by Ronnie White, a member of a popular singing group called The Miracles. Ronnie immediately recognized Stevie’s talent and took him to audition（試演）for Berry Gordy, the president of Hitsville USA, a large recording pany now known as Motown. Stevie recorded his first smash hit “Fingertips” in 1962 at age twelve, and the rest of Stevie’s story is music history.1. This passage could be entitled .B) Stevie Wonder2. Which of the following is NOT true about Stevie’s childhood?A) Stevie used to tell people that a blind person is not necessarily disabled.3. By saying “Stevie soon graduated from toy instruments to real instruments,” the author means that .D) Stevie started to play real instruments4. The author mentions all the following facts EXCEPT that .C) Berry Gordy helped him to set up his own recording pany5. The “Fingertips” .D) all of the abovePassage twoChildren are a relatively modern invention. Until a few hundred years ago they did not exist. In medieval and Renaissance painting you see pintsized men and women, wearing grownup clothes and grownup expressions, performing grownup tasks. Children did not exist because the family as we know it had not evolved.Children today not only exist。 the father was ever inheriting from his son. Kid’s Country may be the inevitable result.Kid’s Country is not all bad. America is the greatest country in the world to grow up in because it is Kid’s Country. We not only wear kids’ clothes and eat kids’
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