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Girls really prefer pink and boys prefer blue, recent research shows.

The reasons could have its origins in the hunt for food on the African savannah(稀樹草原) thousands of years ago. Evolution may have developed women’s preference for pink, perhaps because it helped to find ripe fruit and healthy men with reddish faces, while both men and women have a natural desire for blue, according to scientists at Newcastle University.

“ Everyone in today’s western culture, from parents to toy manufactures, seems to assume that little girls like pink.” Said Prof. Anya Hulbert, who wanted to find out whether the reason was cultural or to do with biology.

A love of salmon, fuchsia and coral does seem to be rooted into females, rather than picked up from their mothers.

The participants in the study were Chinese and British. The Chinese students showed a marked preference for red, “ Culture may contribute to this natural female preference,” said Pro. Hulbert.

In her experience, 208 young adult men and women were asked to select, as rapidly as possible, their preferred color. Hulbert and her colleague Dr. Yazhu Ling marked the results and found that while men preferred blue, women tended to choose pink.

Hulbert said she could only prefer about the preference for blue: “ Here again, I would favor evolutionary arguments. Going back to our savannah days, we would have a natural preference for a clear blue sky, because it signaled good weather. Clear blue also signals a good water source.”

 

51. The passage mentions “ the African savannah” to show that_____.

   A. the ancient Africa was a a beautiful place

   B. human beings lived in Africa at first

   C. women and men have different color preference

   D. color preference has its historical origins

52. It can be inferred that the underlined word “ fuchsia”_____.

   A. is probably a kind of toy

   B. is probably pink in color

   C. can be only found in Africa

   D. hardly causes men’s interest

53. By saying “ the Chinese students for red.” In Para. 5, the writer means_____.

   A. red is the Chinese students’ favorite color

   B. the Chinese prefer red more than the British

   C. culture influences people’s color preferences

   D. the study was carried out by two nations

54. What can we know from the last paragraph?

   A. Hulbert thinks evolution explains why people prefer blue.

   B. Hulbert has a strong desire for “savannah days”.

   C. Blue is a natural signal of many good things

   D. While boys like blue, girls like pink.

Answer 1

本文主要講女孩喜歡粉色，男孩喜歡藍(lán)色。這種法是有根據(jù)的。研究表明，這種想象源于古代人類的生活習(xí)慣。

51. D 

解析：考查寫作意圖。第一段提出主題，第二段提及非洲稀樹草原，其目的是告訴讀者男女分別偏愛某種顏色是有其歷史的原因的。

52. B 

解析：考查詞義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)本文的主題，結(jié)合本句的內(nèi)容，可知作者提及 “salmon, fuchsia and coral” 的原因是因?yàn)樗鼈兊念伾�都是粉色的。A love of salmon, fuchsia and coral does seem to be rooted into females, rather than picked from their mothers.對(duì)于大馬哈魚，倒掛金鐘花及珊瑚的喜愛似乎嬸嬸扎在女性的心里，而這種愛好并不只是從她們的媽媽那里繼承的。

53. C 

解析：考查事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)。根據(jù)該段的結(jié)論句“ Culture may contribute to this natural female preference ”可知。

54. A 

解析：考查主旨大意。從最后一段中Hulbert所說的話可知她的觀點(diǎn)是人們都喜歡藍(lán)色的原因是進(jìn)化的結(jié)果。