英语六级阅读理解练习与答案

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　　It is well known that when an individual joins a group he tends to accept the group's standards of behavior and thinking. Many illustrations (例证) could be given of this from everyday life, but what is of particular interest to psychologists is the extent to which people's judgments and opinions can be changed as a result of group pressure. Asch and others noticed that people in a group will agree to statements that are contrary to the evidence of their senses. It would be a mistake to think that only particular changeable people are chosen to take part in experiments of this type. Usually highly intelligent and independent people are used.

　　In a typical experiment, this is what may happen. The experimenter asks for volunteers to join a group which is investigating visual perception. The victims are not, therefore, aware of the real purpose of the experiment. Each volunteer is taken to a room where he finds a group of about seven people who are collaborating(合作) with the experimenter. The group is shown a standard card which contains a single line. They are then asked to look at a second card. This has three lines on it. One is obviously longer than the line on the first card, one is shorter and one the same length. They have to say which line on the second card is the same length as the line on the standard card. The other members of the group answer first but what the volunteer does not know is that they have been told to pick one of the wrong lines. When his turn comes he is faced with the unanimous (一致的 ) opinion of the rest of the group—all the others have chosen line A but he quite clearly sees line B as correct. What will he do? According to Asch, more than half of the victims chosen will change their opinion. What is equally surprising is that, when interviewed about their answers, most explained that they know the group choice was incorrect but that they yield to the pressure of the group because they thought they must be suffering from an optical illusion, or because they were afraid of being different.

　　26. The psychologists are particularly interested in_______.

　　A. the changes in the attitudes of the people

　　B. the degree of changes of people's opinions

　　C. the result of the experiment

　　D. the difference in people's characters

　　27. People who are usually chosen to take part in the experiments are_______.

　　A. stubborn and independent B. intelligent

　　C. ignorant and docile D. capable of reasoning

　　28. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

　　A. The experimenter and all the members of the group except the victim know the purpose of the experiment.

　　B. All of them know the purpose of the experiment.

　　C. Only the experimenter knows the purpose of the experiment.

　　D. Only the victim knows the purpose of the experiment.

　　29. More than half of the victims changed their opinion because_______.

　　A. someone in the group changed their opinion

　　B. they thought their eyes must be deceived

　　C. they thought the group choice was correct.

　　D. they had been told about the answer

　　30. The purpose of the author in writing this passage is to_______.

　　A. illustrate the influence of the group's pressure on individual's behavior

　　B. invite more volunteers to join in Asch's experiment

　　C. tell the audience how to perform psychological experiment

　　D. encourage people to act against the group's opinion

 

　　26. B 27. D 28. C 29. B 30. A


 

　　Student expeditions do a great deal of good work on the Arctic islands but from time to time cause trouble in the huts, probably because students are not familiar with the 11 of the little wooden huts dotted all over the islands of the Spizbergen group.

　　Each hut 12 has an inner and an outer door, shutters over the windows, a store of wood 13 up outside, dry chopped wood inside, utensils and cutlery, and above all, a small store of food. All these things must be completely in 14 whenever the hut is left.

　　It makes no 15 if it is only the middle of July. That 16 hut may not be visited again before the winter. A door left open can lead either to snow filling up the hut to the ceiling, or 17 still, wind blowing the roof off. Unfastened shutters leave the windows an easy prey for polar bears 18 for food and the result is again snow in the hut. The ready-chopped wood is also very important.

　　A traveler visiting the hut in the middle of the dark time and perhaps in bad weather, his feet, hands and face bitten by the frost, will have his difficulties doubled if the wood he left has been used up by others and he had nothing with which to 19 a fire.

　　Ten or more years ago there were enough hunters to look after most of the huts, but now many buildings have become useless because there is no one to repair them and because of 20

　　A. worse

　　B. peculiar

　　C. laid

　　D. light

　　E. generally

　　F. order

　　G. particular

　　H. conventions

　　I. carelessness

　　J. difference

　　K. built

　　L. fashions

　　M. searching

　　N. ordinarily

　　O. result

 

　　11. H 12. E 13. C 14. F 15. J 16. G 17. A 18. M 19. D 20. I