高一英語上冊Unit5基礎鞏固講解6
those findings were interesting, but they didn’t prove that a person’s attitude affects whether he or she gets sick.instead, it was still possible that a person’s underlying personality is what matters.evidence suggests, for instance, that certain people are naturally more likely to be outgoing and optimistic, with high selfesteem and a sense of control over life.this would mean that who we are, not how we feel, ultimately decides our chances of catching colds.
to figure out which mattered more (personality or emotions), the cmu team interviewed 193 healthy adults.the researchers talked to each person over the phone every evening for 2 weeks.at the end of the interviewing period, people got nose drops that contained either cold or flu viruses. then，each person stayed in an isolated room for 5 or 6 days.the results showed that everyone in the study was equally likely to get infected.their symptoms, however, differed depending on the types of emotions that they had reported over the previous 2 weeks.among those who reported good moods and had been infected with the flu virus, for example, 28 percent developed coughs and stuffy noses. on the other hand，those symptoms struck 41 percent of people who had been less upbeat.
【解題導語】 最新研究表明性格開朗的人往往覺察不到感冒的存在。
1.what would be the best title for the passage?
a.smiles turn away colds
b.an interesting way to beat colds
c.be outgoing and optimistic to fight colds
d.what matters more, personality or emotions?
解析：選a。主旨大意題。本文是研究報道，第一段是文章的中心段，根據本段第一句內容可判斷此項正確。b項過于籠統。
2.in the previous study, people who showed positive feelings______.
a.didn’t catch colds as often
b.developed cold symptoms more slowly
c.were less likely to have cold symptoms detected
d.were less likely to feel cold symptoms
解析：選d。細節理解題。根據第二段最后一句的前半句內容可知樂觀的人更不容易感覺到感冒癥狀。本句的后半句是說醫療檢查發現了感冒癥狀，由此可排除c項。
3.what mainly decides our chances of catching colds according to the new study?
a.personality. b.selfesteem.
c.emotions. d.attitudes.
解析：選c。細節理解題。根據最后一段中的“their symptoms，however，differed depending on the types of emotions that they had reported over the previous 2 weeks.”可判斷關鍵因素是人的“情感”。下文內容也有線索提示。