公共课英语一模拟题2020年(162)
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That some people make weird associations between the ns has been acknowledged for over a century. The condition has even been given a name: synaesthesia. Odd as it may em to tho not so gifted, synaesthetes insist that spoken sounds and the symbols which reprent them give ri to specific colours or that individual musical notes have their own hues.
Yet there may be a little of this cross-modal association in everyone. Most people agree that loud sounds are brighter than soft ones. Likewi, low-pitched sounds are reminiscent of large objects and high-pitched ones evoke smallness. Anne-Sylvie Crisinel and Charles Spence of Oxford University think something similar is true between sound and smell.
Ms. Crisinel and Dr. Spence wanted to know whether an odour sniffed from a bottle could be linked to a specific pitch. To find out, they asked 30 people to inhale 20 smells. After giving each sample a good sniff, volunteers had to click their way through 52 sounds of varying pitches, and identify which best matched the smell. The results of this study are intriguing.
The rearchers' first finding was that the volunteers did not think their request utterly ridiculous. It rather made n, they told them afterwards. The cond was that there was significant agreement between volunteers. Sweet and sour smells were rated as higher-pitched, smoky and woody ones as lower-pitched.
It is not immediately clear why people employ their musical ns in this way to help their asssment of a smell. But gone are the days when science assumed each毛豆
n worked in isolation. People live, say Dr. Spence and Ms. Crisinel, in a multinsory world and their brains **bine information from all sources to make n, as it were, of what is going on around them.
Taste, too, ems linked to hearing. Ms. Crisinel and Dr. Spence have previously established that sweet and sour tastes, like smells, are linked to high pitch, while bitter tastes bring lower pitches to mind. Now they have gone further. In a study that will be published later this year they and their colleagues show how altering the pitch and instruments ud in background music can alter the way food tastes. Volunteers rated the toffee eaten during low-pitched music as more bitter than that consumed during the high-pitched performance. The toffee was, of cour, identical. It was the sound that tasted different.
1. 1."Synaesthesia" (Para. 1) probably has the same meaning to______.
A. weird association
B. cross-modal association
C. similar association
D. common association
2. 2.All of the following associations can be called synaesthesia EXCEPT______.
A. sound and color
B. sound and brightness
C. sound and symbol
D. sound and smell
3. 3.It can be inferred from the rearchers' first finding that______.
A. the experiment did not make n
B. volunteers' feelings varied from one to another
C. rearchers found out why musical ns may asss smell
D. human **bine multinsory information to make n
4. 4.The experiment of toffee aims to______.
A. reveal that taste is linked to sound
B. explore toffee's taste in background music
C. show how sound alters the way food tastes
D. find out if sound has different tastes
5. 5.According to the text, which of the following is true?
A. Low-pitched sounds evoke smallness.
B. Sweet and sour smells evoke low pitch.
C. Sweet and sour tastes evoke low pitch.
D. Toffee tastes sweeter in high-pitched music.
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ot since the American dream became more expensive.
Following a 69 percent increa last summer in citizenship fees, about 281,000 immigrants have applied to become U.S. citizens in the first half of 2008—less than half the number of applicants in the same period last year, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The decline follows a rush of applications when immigrants hurried to get their paperwork filed before fees shot up at the end of July 2007. In that month alone, more than 460,000 immigrants applied for citizenship. They paid $ 400. The new fee is $ 675—a price some people believe is a barrier to citizenship.
Thu Tran, director of a citizenship program at Catholic Charities of Orange County, said she helped more t白酒酿造技术
han 100 people a month fill out citizenship papers in the last few years. This year she helps about 50 a month. "I have people who make appointments and cancel," Tran said. "We follow up and they say they don't have the money to pay for that."
While immigrant advocates blame higher fees and a wobbly economy, a federal official said a variety of reasons could have caud the decline. "For everyone, it's different," said SharonRummery, a spokeswoman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The agency has not had so few applicants to open a year since 2003, when nearly 270,000 people applied for U.S. citizenship. Flavia Jimenez, director of the citizenship program at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, said some immigrants in Chicago are taking out loans to pay the fees or designating one family member who gets to apply for citizenship.
