4.The faces of the elderly,happily-married people sometimes look like each other.Dr.Aiken studied a number of couples who had been married for at least twenty-five years.Each couple provided four photographs-one photo of each partner at the time of their marriage and another photo to remove any clues.The photos were then displayed in groups:a random(隨意的)grouping of the persons at the time of their marriage and another random grouping of the same persons who took photographs later.Some judges were asked to pick out the partners.They failed totally with the first group.Their judgments were no better than chance.But with the photos taken twenty-five or more years after the marriage,the judges were quite successful at deciding who was married to whom.They were particularly successful with the most happily-married couples.
Dr.Aiken believes there are several reasons why couples grow alike.One reason has something to do with imitation.One person tends to copy or do the same as someone else without knowing it.He says human beings copy the expressions of the faces of their loved ones.Another possible reason,he says,is the common experience of the couples.There is a tendency for people who have the same life experience to change their faces in similar ways.For example,if a couple suffered a lot of sad experiences,their faces are likely to change in a similar way.
21.The main purpose of the passage is toC.
A.tell how couples look like each other
B.show the life experience of husband and wife
C.explain why couples grow alike
D.describe the study on a number of married people
22.The judges failed toA.
A.tell couples by looking at their photos taken when they got married
B.tell happily-married couples from sadly-married couples
C.discover the difference of each partner
D.understand Dr.Aiken's study
23.The underlined sentence"Their judgments were no better than chance."meansC.
A.quite successful
B.based on facts
C.only by luck
D.totally wrong
24.From the passage we can draw a conclusion that.C
A.happily-married couples are often richer than other couples
B.couples who look alike can live longer
C.the influence between couples can be quite strong
D.a(chǎn)ll couples have been proved to grow alike.
分析 短文主要講了Dr.Aiken 通過照片的對比,解釋了為什么夫妻會越長越相像.
解答 21.C,主旨大意題,短文主要講了Dr.Aiken 通過照片的對比,解釋了為什么夫妻會越長越相像,故答案為C.
22.A,細節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)句子The photos were then displayed in groups:a random(隨意的)grouping of the persons at the time of their marriage and another random grouping of the same persons who took photographs later.Some judges were asked to pick out the partners.They failed totally with the first group.可知,那些裁判看那些剛結婚的照片沒法分辨出誰與誰是夫妻,故答案為A.
23.C,句意猜測題,根據(jù)前一句They failed totally with the first group,他們沒法辨別出這些夫妻,可以推測他們是靠運氣挑選的,故答案為C.
24.C,推理判斷題,短文最后一段Dr.Aiken believes there are several reasons why couples grow alike.Dr.Aiken 解釋了為什么夫妻會越長越像,可見夫妻倆的影響是很大的,故答案為C.
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