Question

    When I was a kid, I used to spend hours listening to Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew Pinsky on their Sunday night radio show Loveline. I listened so often that I began to use one of their well-known phrases — “good times” — in my daily conversations. Scientists have a name for this phenomenon: behavioral mimicry.

You’ve probably experienced this before: after spending enough time with another person, you might start to pick up on his or her behavior or speech habits. You might even start to develop your friend’s habits without realizing it. There is a large body of literature concerning this sort of phenomenon, and it regularly happens for everything from body gesture to accents to drink patterns (模式). For example, one study found that young adults were more likely to drink their drink directly after their same-sex drinking partners, than for the two individuals to drink at their own paces.

And the effect isn’t limited to real-life face-to-face activities. Another study found that the same you-drink-then-I-drink pattern held even when watching a movie! In other words, people were more likely to take a drink of their drinks in a theater after watching the actors on the screen enjoy a drink. At least I don’t feel so strange anymore, having picked up on Adam Carolla’s “good times”.

New research published today in the journal PLOS ONE indicates that the same sort of behavioral mimicry is responsible for social eating, at least among university-age women of normal weight. That’s right: the young women were more likely to adjust their eating according to the eating pace of their same-sex dining companion.

As with most experiments, these results raise a whole new set of questions. However, the finding that behavioral mimicry may at least partly explain eating behavior is important, and has real effects on health. The researchers note that “as long as people don’t fully recognize such important influences on intake (eating), it will be difficult to make healthy food choices and keep a healthy diet, especially when people are exposed to the eating behavior of others”.

1.The author takes his own example of using “good times” to_______.

A.show the influence of the hosts’ words B.express his love for radio shows

C.prove the popularity of the show D.introduce the topic of the passage

2.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _______.

A.behavioral mimicry is beneficial to our health

B.behavioral mimicry decides our eating behavior

C.people have realized the effect of behavioral mimicry on our health

D.It’s impossible to keep a healthy diet without knowing behavioral mimicry

3.What is probably the author’s purpose of writing this passage?

A.To introduce behavioral mimicry and its influence.

B.To appeal to readers not to fall into others’ habits.

C.To advocate healthy food choices among readers.

D.To draw readers’ attention to popular radio shows.

Answer

1.D

2.C

3.A

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述了什么是行为模仿以及行为模仿的影响。

1.推理判断题。根据文章第一段中“I listened so often that I began to use one of their well-known phrases — “good times” — in my daily conversations. Scientists have a name for this phenomenon: behavioral mimicry.”我听得太多了，以至于我开始在日常对话中使用他们的一句名言——“美好时光”。科学家给这种现象起了个名字：行为模仿；以及下文主要讲述了什么是行为模仿以及其影响可知，作者以自己为例，用“美好时光”来表示引出本文的主题——行为模仿。结合选项，故选D。

2.推理判断题。根据文章最后一段中的However, the finding that behavioral mimicry may at least partly explain eating behavior is important, and has real effects on health. The researchers note that “as long as people don’t fully recognize such important influences on intake (eating), it will be difficult to make healthy food choices and keep a healthy diet, especially when people are exposed to the eating behavior of others”. 然而，研究发现，行为模仿至少可以部分解释饮食行为，这一发现很重要，而且对健康有实际影响。研究人员指出，“只要人们没有充分认识到这些对摄入量(饮食)的重要影响，就很难做出健康的食物选择和保持健康的饮食习惯，尤其是当人们接触到其他人的饮食行为时。”由此可推断出，人们已经意识到行为模仿对健康的影响。结合选项，故选C。

3.推理判断题。根据文章第一段中I listened so often that I began to use one of their well-known phrases — “good times”— in my daily conversations. Scientists have a name for this phenomenon: behavioral mimicry.(我听得太多了，以至于我开始在日常对话中使用他们的一句名言——“美好时光”。科学家给这种现象起了个名字：行为模仿)以及文章第二段中You’ve probably experienced this before: after spending enough time with another person, you might start to pick up on his or her behavior or speech habits. You might even start to develop your friend’s habits without realizing it(你可能以前也有过这样的经历：在和另一个人相处了足够长的时间后，你可能会开始注意他或她的行为或说话习惯。你甚至可能在没有意识到的情况下开始养成你朋友的习惯)以及文章第三段中And the effect isn’t limited to real-life face-to-face activities(这种影响并不局限于现实生活中面对面的活动)由此可以推出，作者写这篇文章的目的是介绍行为模仿这个概念以及告诉我们行为模仿的影响。结合选项，故选A。