题文
Anyone who ever wondered why a dying plant, say, a freshly-cut red rose may appeal to a lady friend, might take some comfort in science, which once again offers us a reasonable answer to one of the world’ s great mysteries.Beyond a common preference in people for blue, “the long history of color preference studies has been described as ‘confusing and contradictory(矛盾的)’,” write scientists Anya Hurlbert and Yazhu Ling of England’ s Newcastle University, authors of a new study in the journal Current Biology. “This fact is perhaps surprising,” they said, “though the popularity of the concept that little girls differ from boys in preferring pink.”
But the scientists believe they have an answer to this scientific mystery, discovering women’s preference for red, hidden above the average liking for blue.
In their study, the pair quickly flashed color cards, displaying many different aspects, at 208 volunteers, mostly Britishers but with a number of Han Chinese, who moved to the United Kingdom recently. Tested in three different experiments, the researchers found out a small but significant preference for reddish colors in the female volunteers.
Puzzled, the authors realized that most of the difference between men and women came in the form of a preference for green VS red in the color cards, regardless of the other slight differences such as the slightly blue ones that everyone liked. Why might this be?
Evolution might offer an answer, they reason. Human color perception(感知), the assessment of three separate color types — red — green — blue— in our vision (视觉) is a relatively recent addition to our line of mammals(脯乳动物)
Adding weight to their argument, they found the women who are most typically feminine(女性的) on a psychological survey also had the biggest preference for reddish colors. “My love is like a red, red rose,” wrote the Scottish poet Rober Burns in 1794.
小题1:What does the first paragraph probably tell us ? A．Scientific research can help people solve the mystery.B．When we are tired, we can turn to science for help. C．Science can make our study interesting and contradictory. D．We should turn to scientific invention for comfortable life.小题2:The word “pair” in Para.4 refers to _____. A．boy and girlB．the two authorsC．research and resultD．pink and blue小题3:According to the passage, ______________.A．boys like blue better than girlsB．girls like pink better than boysC．men like red better than womenD．men and women both like green小题4:How did the scientist do the research?A．By asking questionsB．By telephoning the intervieweesC．By adding numbersD．By doing experiments小题5:What is the purpose of writing this article?A．To sell products packed in redB．To introduce the history of colorC．To inform us of a research findingD．To analyze men’s taste for color 题型：未知难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:C
解析
本文叙述了人们在日常生活中女性与男性的在喜欢的颜色上的不同，女性多喜欢红颜色，而男性多喜欢蓝色。男女对颜色的不同偏好与生俱来，在人类进化过程中逐渐形成。
小题1:细节理解题。根据which once again offers us a reasonable answer to one of the world’ s great mysteries.有解释不清的问题找研究人员进行科学的研究，故选A。
小题2:细节理解题。根据write scientists Anya Hurlbert and Yazhu Ling of England’ s Newcastle University, authors of a new study in the journal Current Biology. the pair quickly flashed color cards,指的是两个作者，故选B。
小题3:细节理解题。根据This fact is perhaps surprising,” they said, “though the popularity of the concept that little girls differ from boys in preferring pink.” Tested in three different experiments, the researchers found out a small but significant preference for reddish colors in the female volunteers.小女孩喜欢粉色，故选B。
小题4:细节理解题。根据Tested in three different experiments,科学家通过不同饿实验得出结论，故选D。
小题5:写作意图题。根据手段和全文来看这篇的短文的目的在于告知人们一个实验的结果，故选C。
点评：细节理解题：在快速阅读的过程中，要掌握主旨大意，要有阅读的整体意识，避免那种“只见树木，不见森林”的逐字逐句的阅读习惯。接着是寻读，确定“信息源”，找出问题的相关信息出自文章何处，跟哪些段落或句子有关，仔细比较所给选项与文中细节一点一滴的区别，在准确理解细节的前提下，最后确定最佳答案，这样对细节理解题的处理基本做到了有根有据，提高了判断的正确性。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“Anyone who ever wond.....”主要考查你对 [日常生活类阅读 ]考点的理解。日常生活类阅读
日常生活类阅读的概念：
日常生活这一话题主要涉及人们衣食住行等方面的活动。这一话题的选材主要针对人们日常的工作，生活以及学习情况。做这一类题时，最主要的是要把握好人物的活动内容，时间和地点。
日常生活类阅读题答题技巧：
【题型说明】
该类文章内容涉及到人们的言谈举止、生活习惯、饮食起居、服饰仪表、恋爱婚姻、消遣娱乐、节日起源、家庭生活等。文章篇幅短小，追根溯源，探索各项风俗的历史渊源，内容有趣。命题也以送分题为主，如事实细节题、语义转换题、词义猜测题和简单推理判断题等。虽然这类文章读起来感觉轻松，试题做起来比较顺手，但绝不能掉以轻心。因为稍不留神，就会丢分。
【备考提醒】
为了保证较高准确率，建议同学们做好以下几点：
1、保持正常的考试心态。笔者在教学中发现，越是容易的试题，同学们越是容易失分。为什么呢？因为在这种情况下，同学们极易产生麻痹思想，认为题目好做，就不引起高度重视，于是思维不发散、不周密。而命题人就是利用同学们的这一弱点，设计陷阱题。所以，无论试题难易与否，我们都要保持正常的考试心态。试题容易，不欣喜；试题难，不悲观。
2、根据前面讲到的方法，认认真真、细细心心做好事实细节题。
3、做好语义转换题。这类题是根据英语中一词多义和某些词语在文中能表达一定的修辞意义的原则而设计的。要求同学们解释某生词的含义，确定多义词或短语在文中的意思，确认文中的某个代词所指代的对象，或者对英语中特有的表达、格言、谚语进行解释。这种题要求同学们一定要根据上下文猜测词义或理解句子，切不可望文生义。
4、做好简单推理判断题。简单推理判断题要以表面文字为前提，以具体事实为依据进行推理，做出判断。这种推理方式比较直接，只要弄清事实，即可结合常识推断出合理的结论。
