Even with little exposure to cultural standards of beauty, “infants treat attractive faces as  distinctive regardless of the sex, age a nd race of the stimulus(刺激物) faces,”  write psychologist Judith H.Langlois and her colleagues in the January DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY.
In their experiment, 5 healthy 6-month-old infants from middle-class families viewed slides showing eight pairs of white male faces and eight pairs of white female faces. Each pair, displayed for 10 seconds, consisted of one attractive and one unattractive face, as previously judged by a group of male and female college students. An experimenter viewed the young participants on a video monitor and recorded the direction and duration of each infant’s gaze.
The 35 boys and 25 girls looked longer at both male and female faces judged as attractive, the researchers found.
Their second study of 6-month-old involved 15 boys and 25 girls, mostly white, who saw eight pairs of slides showing an attractive and an unattractive black female, as previously judged by both white and black college students.  Again, the babies looked much longer at attractive faces.  
Finally, 19 boys and 20 girls, all 6 months old and almost all of them white, viewed eight pairs of slides showing the faces of 3-month-old boys and girls previously rated as attractive or unattractive by college students. Attractive baby faces drew signficantly longer looks, the psychologists report.
Further studies must explore whether infants take attractive faces as “best examples” of a face, the investigators claim Langlois and a coworker recently reported that attractive faces may possess features that approximate the mathematical average of all faces in particular population.
1.What was found in the first study?
A.Male infants looked longer only at female ones.
B.Females looked more attractive than males.
C.Sixty 6?month?old babies looked longer at the attractive faces, male or female.
D.White female faces drew more attention  than those of black ones.
2.In the last paragraph, the writer implies that .      
A.Langlois and her partners will stop their experiments they accomplished a lot
B.Langlois and her partners will focus on the other fields of infants
C.Langlois and her partners have achieved success in studying the infants’ mind
D.Langlois and her partners have found a more interesting field
3.What can be inferred from the passage?
A.All babies, white or black, tend to share with the college students the preference for attractive faces.
B.White babies prefer white faces to black ones.      
C.Babies tend to get interested in the attractive faces of the opposite sex.
D.Beauty has something to do with a person’s age, race and sex
4.The title that best expresses the main idea is .     
A.Psychology of Infants   B.Beauty in Variety   C.Beauty and Race   D.Beauty in Infants
1-4  CDAB
1.  文章第二、三段講述的是第一個實(shí)驗(yàn)的情況,第二段為實(shí)驗(yàn)經(jīng)過,第三段是結(jié)果,即,“35名男孩和25名女孩對漂亮男人和女人的臉看的時間較長。”由此可知C為正確答案。
2. 文章最后一段指出:這些研究者堅持認(rèn)為,進(jìn)一步的研究應(yīng)該探索這些嬰兒是否把吸引入的面孔作為最典型的面孔。由此可推斷出:Langlois及其同事發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個更有趣的領(lǐng)域,故選D。
3. 文章第四段指出:40個嬰兒對漂亮面孔的反應(yīng)與大學(xué)生相同,都會對漂亮的臉看較長的時間,由此可推知A為正確答案。B和C在文中未提到;文章首句提到“...infants treat attractive face as distinctive regardless of  the sex,age and race of the stimulus faces”,由此可排除D。
4.  文章介紹了Langlois和其同事們的三次實(shí)驗(yàn),內(nèi)容是讓一些六個月的嬰兒觀察漂亮與不漂亮的臉,結(jié)果發(fā)現(xiàn)他們與大學(xué)生一樣,都會在漂亮面孔前注視的時間長一些,而漂亮面孔各有其特點(diǎn),故B為最佳題目。
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