Question

Questions are based on the following passage.

1.A.More cheerful. B.Less stressed. C.More resolute. D.Less attractive.

2.

A.To find out how clothes can affect people’s feelings.

B.To show how scientists pay more attention to details.

C.To prove people make fewer mistakes in lab coats.

D.To test the effect of clothes on people’s attention.

3.

A.Body movements change the way people think.

B.How people dress can change their appearance.

C.What people wear can affect their performance.

D.People doing different jobs wear different clothes.

Answer

1.C

2.D

3.C

【解析】

【原文】

It’s surprising how much simple movements of the body can affect the way we think. Using expansive gestures with open arms makes us feel more powerful and crossing your arms makes you more determined.

So if moving the body can have these effects, what about the clothes we wear? We’re all aware of how dressing up in different ways can make us feel more attractive or professional，but can the clothes actually make us perform better or is it just a feeling?

Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people’s powers of attention. The idea is that white coats are associated with scientists, who are in turn thought to have close attention to detail. What they found was that people wearing white coats made only half as many errors as those wearing their own clothes.

This opens the way for all sorts of clothes-based experiments. Is the psychologist smoking a cigar more insightful? Does a chef’s hat make the food taste better? Maybe from now on, I will only be editing my term paper wearing a pair of glasses to help me make fewer mistakes.

Questions:

11. How would people probably feel when they cross their arms?

12. What is the purpose of Adam and Galinsky’s experiment?

13. What is the main idea of the passage?