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What sort of glass you drink from predicts how fast you drink. "Would you like that in a straight or a jug, sir?" was once a com

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问题     What sort of glass you drink from predicts how fast you drink. "Would you like that in a straight or a jug, sir?" was once a common response to Britishers’ request for a pint in a pub. Like the Lilliputians in Gulliver’s Travels, who argued whether a boiled egg should be opened at the pointed or the rounded end, beer drinkers were adamant that only from their preferred shape of glass did their drinks taste best.
    Straight-sided glasses—sometimes with a bulge a little below the lip—have largely won the day. Jugs equipped with handles are now rare. But that is probably because straight glasses are easier for bar staff to collect and stack. The shape of a beer glass does, nevertheless, matter. For a group of researchers at the University of Bristol have shown that it can regulate how quickly someone drinks.
    Angela Attwood and her colleagues asked 160 undergraduates—80 women and 80 men—to do one of four things: drink beer out of a straight glass; drink beer out of a flute—a tall narrow wineglass; or drink lemonade from one of these two sorts of glass. To complicate matters further, some of the glasses were full whereas others were half-full. What Dr. Attwood and her team were really interested in was how quickly the various drinks would be drunk.
    The answer was that a full straight glass of beer was polished off in 11 minutes, on average. A full flute, by contrast, was finished off in seven, which was also the amount of time it took to drink a full glass of lemonade, regardless of the type of vessel. If a glass started half-full, however, neither its shape nor its contents mattered. It was drunk in an average of five minutes.
    Though beer flutes are not common in British pubs, her observation that the shape of a glass can affect how fast it is drunk from bears investigation. Both health campaigners and breweries would be interested in the results, though they would probably draw opposite conclusions about what is the best-shaped glass in which to serve a bevvy.
What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?
选项 A、The volunteers spent less time in drinking beer out of a jug.
B、Whether a glass was full or half-full makes no difference to drinking speed.
C、It took the volunteer five minutes to drink wine out of a straight glass.
D、If a glass was full of lemonade, its shape matters.
答案D
解析 根据题干关键词定位到第四段。该段倒数第二句出现明显的表示转折意义的词however，说明其后的内容是命题人出题的重点，该句句意为“然而，如果一个杯子开始只倒了一半，那么杯型如何、装的是什么饮品就都不重要了”，所以推断出D项“如果一个杯子盛满柠檬汁，那么它的杯型就会非常重要”，故D项为正确答案。A项“(参与实验的)志愿者们用扎啤杯喝啤酒的用时更少”和B项“一个杯子有没有倒满酒对喝酒的速度没有影响”推断错误。C项“志愿者们用净饮杯喝红酒需要5分钟”在“半杯”的前提下才是正确的，故排除。
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