Question

For hundreds of years, scientists have been trying to answer what things have an effect on people’s emotions(情感). How you feel is controlled by many things. Your emotions can be affected by your personality, by the actions of others and by events around you. Perhaps you don’t know your emotions can be affected by the weather as well.

People often say they feel good when the sun is shining and sad when it is cloudy. In fact, sunlight makes us feel good. When sunlight hits our skins, it helps our bodies produce vitamin D(維生素). Vitamin D helps our bodies make a special chemical. This special chemical affects our brains and makes us feel happy. For example, there are long, dark winters of little sunlight in some countries in the world, so many people in these countries often feel sad. Without much sunlight, their bodies produce less vitamin D. Without enough vitamin D, their bodies make less of this special chemical which makes them feel good. To help the people in these countries feel better, special “sunrooms” with artificial lights have been built. People can go there and get “sunlight” for an hour or two!

The weather can also affect people’s emotions in other ways. Hot weather can make people angry because people feel uncomfortable when they are hot. In the same way, rain can make people angry because being wet can be unpleasant. As you can see, the weather can have an effect on the chemicals which control our brains. Through these days, the weather can affect our emotions. Sadly, while the weather can change us, we can hardly change the weather.

1.The underlined word “artificial” in the passage means “________” in Chinese.

A. 天然的 B. 人造的 C. 虛構(gòu)的

2.From the passage we know that _______.

A.people feel good when it is cloudy

B.in the countries where there are long, dark winters of little sunlight, many people feel sad

C.special “sunrooms” have been built all over the world

3.Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a factor (因素) that can affect one's emotions?

A. Weather. B. Actions of others.

C. Personality. D. Age.

4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A.Enough vitamin D makes people feel good

B.Both hot weather and rainy weather can make people angry

C.Only weather can control our emotions.

5. The best title for this passage should be _______

A.People Need More Vitamin D

B.We Can Hardly Change the Weather

C.Weather Affects People’s Emotions

Answer 1

1.B

2.B

3.B

4.C

5.C

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文主要介紹了幾百年來科學(xué)家們一直在試圖回答什么事情對人的情緒有影響。你的感覺是由很多東西控制。你的情緒會被你的個性影響，被他人的行為和你周圍的事物影響。也許你不知道你的情緒還會受天氣的影響等等。

1.詞義猜測題。根據(jù)題意為了幫助這些國家的人們感覺更好，特別“sunrooms”人工照明已建成。人們可以去那里得到一個或兩個小時的陽光”！可知artificial的意思是人造的。故選B。

2.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。For example, there are long, dark winters of little sunlight in some countries in the world, so many people in these countries often feel sad.可知在有些國家，沒有陽光的黑暗的冬天，許多人感到難過故選B

3.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Your emotions can be affected by your personality, by the actions of others and by events around you.可知人的情緒受人的個性，其他人的行為、你周圍發(fā)生的事情及天氣的影響。短文沒有提到年齡，故選D。

4.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。通讀全文可知只有C是不正確的不是只有天氣才能控制人的情感，故選C。

5.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。通讀全文可知這篇文章做好的標(biāo)題是---天氣影響人的情緒，故選C

考點：科技類短文閱讀。