重庆华章MBA英语每日一练（5.28）
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2014年5月27日阅读理解答案及详解
参考译文：
你是否曾有过正被别人看着的奇怪的感觉？你一转身，果然，有个人正在看着你！
灵学家们认为人类有感知他人正在看自己的本能。为了研究所谓的“第六感”是否存在，肯塔基大学的心理学家罗伯特.贝克进行了两个实验。
第一个实验中，贝克在公共场合别人没察觉到的情况下坐在对方的后面。盯着他们的后脑勺5到15分钟。对方正在吃东西，喝水，看书，学习，看电视或是在电脑前工作。贝克确信在那些时候人们不会知道他正坐在他们后面。之后，他询问了这些对象，大部分人都说他们丝毫没有感觉到别人正在看着他们。
第二个实验中，贝克告诉实验对象研究者会时不时地透过一个双向透明玻璃镜盯着他们看。这些人需要记下他们什么时候感到正被人看，什么时候没有。贝克发现这些实验对象所记下的比只是猜测出的结果并不好多少。（重庆MBA）
贝克得出结论，人们没有感知别人在看自己的能力。如果大家怀疑他两个实验的结果，贝克说：“我建议他们重做一下这些实验，然后让他们自己看看结果。”
词汇及短语：
sure enough：果然
例：He said he would come, and sure enough he
came. 他说过要来, 果然, 他来了。
two way mirror: 双向透明玻璃镜.
A two-way mirror, often
called a one-way mirror even though this is not strictly correct, is a mirror
which is partially reflective and partially transparent. It is used with a
darkened room on one side and a well-lit room on the other, allowing those in
the darkened room to see into the lighted room but not vice versa.
sixth
sense：第六感，直觉
unknowing：没察觉的，无知的
conclude：
vt. & vi. 结束
vt. 得出结论; 断定；决定
答案解析：
1. 答案：C
解析：两个实验的目的是什么？
文中的”To research whether such a “sixth sense” really exists”即是对实验目的的解释
2. 答案：A
解析：在第一个实验中的实验对象（重庆MBA）
原文：“Baker sat behind unknowing people in
public places and stared at the backs of their heads for 5 to 15
minutes.”关键词是unknowing。其他选项文中没有提及
3. 答案：B
解析：划线词的含义
这要根据上下文猜测该词的意思，后文用到动词see，可以考虑能看到的是什么呢？
4.答案：C
解析：通过这篇文章我们了解到了什么？
文章中贝克最后得出的结论是“Baker concludes that
people do not have the ability to sense when they’re being stared
at.”而他是由实验结果得出的结论，因此C选项符合原意。
2014年5月28日英语习题
阅读理解：
All her life, my mother wanted busy children. It was very important that her house should remain at all times clean and tidy.
You could turn your back for a moment in my mother’ s house, leave a half-written letter on the dining room table, a magazine open on the chair, and turn around to find that my mother had “put it back where it belonged,” as she explained.
My wife, on one of her first visits to my mother’ s house, placed a packet of biscuits on an end table and went to the kitchen to fetch a drink. When she returned, she found the packet had been removed. Confused, she set down her drink and went back to the kitchen for more biscuits, only to return to find that her drink had disappeared. Up to then she had guessed that everyone in my family held onto their drinks, so as not to make water rings on the end tables. Now she knows better.
These disappearances had a confusing effect on our family. We were all inclined to forgetfulness. And it was common for one of us, upon returning from the bathroom, to find that every sigh of his work in progress had disappeared suddenly. “Do you remember what I was doing” was a question frequently asked, but rarely answered.
Now my sister has developed a second-hand love of clean windows, and my brother does the cleaning in his house, perhaps to avoid having to be the one to hit his feet. I try not to think about it too much, but I have at this later time started to dust the furniture once a week
1. Which of the following is TRUE about my mother?
A. She enjoyed removing others drinks.
B. She became more and more forgetful.
C. She preferred to do everything by herself.
D. She wanted to keep her house in good order.
2. The underlined part in the fifth paragraph suggests that my sister _______
A. is happy to clean windows（重庆MBA）
B. loves to dean used windows
C. is fond of clean used windows
D. likes clean windows as my mother did
3. This passage mainly tells us that _______
A. my mother often made us confused
B. my family members had a poor memory
C. my mother helped us to form a good habit
D. my wife was surprised when she visited my mother.
