6．When choosing the perfect house，many people choose high ceilings and a sense of space，despite high price and the higher cost of heating expense in the winter．Now a new study suggests that tall rooms excite the brain and encourage people to explore space，based on previous research that high ceilings are linked to a sense of freedom．A psychologist thinks that the combination of a room that promotes free thinking and is stimulating to the senses，explains why people choose that kind of homes．
Dr．Oshin Vartanian of the University of Toronto-Scarborough，told Fast Design："On the one hand，rooms with high ceilings improve exploration．"An international study，led by Dr．Vartanian scanned the brains of volunteers while they looked at images of 200 rooms，half of which had high ceilings．Participants indicated whether each image was beautiful or not while in the MRI scanner and the experts found that people were more likely to find spaces with high ceilings attractive，than those with low ceilings．This suggests that high ceilings capture people's attention and improve the senses，encouraging people to explore the space they are in．But because the results didn't show any difference in brain regions linked to pleasure or emotion，the study，published in journal of environmental psychology，hints that high ceilings don't instantly put people in a good mood．
In 2007，another study，published in Journal of Consumer Research，revealed that the height of ceilings affects how people think．Marketing experts Joan Meyers-Levy and Rui Zhu modified the height of ceilings in rooms to study how participants responded．They discovered that high ceilings seem to cause people to think more freely，encouraging creativity and abstraction，while lower ceilings promoted confined thinking．For example，one experiment placed volunteers in a room with a high 3-meter ceiling，while asking them to solve anagrams．They were able to complete work puzzles faster than those in a room with a lower ceiling．
Dr．Vartanian said，"Knowing that people's preference for rooms with higher ceilings might be driven by the ability of those spaces to promote visuospatial exploration helps partly explain why people opt to live in such spaces．"
33．What is the bes t title of the passage？A
A．Why do we love high ceilings？
B．What caused high house price？
C．How do we feel in the winter？
D．When will people feel excited？
34．From the passage，we can know high ceilings make peopleB．
A．explore the cost
B．think more freely
C．see more colors
D．get more homes
35．Dr．Vartanian carried out his study byB．
A．promoting visuospatial exploration
B．comparing volunteers'scanning pictures of brains
C．looking at images of 200 rooms
D．capturing attention and stimulating the senses．
分析 本文是一篇科教類閱讀，屬于說明文．一項(xiàng)新的研究表明，高房間激發(fā)大腦，鼓勵(lì)人們探索空間，在以前的研究中，高高的天花板與自由感相關(guān)聯(lián)，本文以此展開，主要談?wù)摿宋覀優(yōu)槭裁磹鄹吒叩奶旎ò澹?/p>
解答 33．A．主旨大意題．閱讀全文，根據(jù)全文內(nèi)容可知，一項(xiàng)新的研究表明，高房間激發(fā)大腦，鼓勵(lì)人們探索空間，在以前的研究中，高高的天花板與自由感相關(guān)聯(lián)，本文以此展開，主要談?wù)摿宋覀優(yōu)槭裁磹鄹吒叩奶旎ò�？故選A．
34．B．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)上文實(shí)驗(yàn)表明以及得出的結(jié)論Knowing that people's preference for rooms with higher ceilings might be driven by the ability of those spaces to promote visuospatial exploration helps partly explain why people opt to live in such spaces．可知，高高的天花板讓人們更自由地思考．故選B．
35．B．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)Participants indicated whether each image was beautiful or not while in the MRI scanner and the experts found that people were more likely to find spaces with high ceilings attractive，than those with low ceilings．可知，Dr．Vartanian開展他的研究通過比較掃描志愿者大腦的照片．故選B．
點(diǎn)評(píng) 本文是一篇科教類閱讀，題目涉及多道細(xì)節(jié)理解題，主旨大意題．做題時(shí)學(xué)生應(yīng)仔細(xì)閱讀原文，把握文章主要內(nèi)容，聯(lián)系文章上下文內(nèi)容并結(jié)合所給選項(xiàng)含義，從中選出正確答案，一定要做到有理有據(jù)，切忌胡亂猜測(cè)．
