2. 外语
  3. Psychologists now believe that noise has a considerable effect on people’s attitudes and behavior. Experiments have proved that

Psychologists now believe that noise has a considerable effect on people’s attitudes and behavior. Experiments have proved that

admin2009-04-23  90
问题     Psychologists now believe that noise has a considerable effect on people’s attitudes and behavior. Experiments have proved that in noisy situations(even temporary ones), people would have more anger and less cooperation; In more permanent noisy situations, many people cannot work hard, and they suffer from severe anxiety as well as other psychological problems. Some researchers, who study various aspects of effect of noise in people’s mental life, maintain that noise, either temporary noise or permanent noise, often destroy creativity and activity by disturbing people’s emotion and make them more easily annoyed and hard to cooperate.
    However, psychologists distinguish between "sound" and "noise". "Sound" is measured physically in decibels(分贝). "Noise" cannot be measured in the same way because it refers to the psychological effect of sound and its level of "intensity" depends on the situation. Thus, for passengers at an airport who expect to hear airplanes taking off and landing, there may be a lot of sound, but not much noise(that is, they are not bothered by the noise). By contrast,  if you are at a concert and two people behind you are whispering, you feel they are talking noisily even if there is not much sound. You notice the noise because it affects you psychologically.
    Both sound and noise can have negative effects, but what is most important is if the person has control over the sound. People walking down the street with earphones, listening to music that they enjoy, are receiving a lot of decibels of sound, but they are probably happy hearing sounds which they control. On the other hand, people in the street without earphones must tolerate a lot of noise which they have no control over. It is noise pollution that we need to control in order to help people live more happily.
选项 A、can not complete his work in a noisy situation
B、will suffer from complete deafness because of noise pollution
C、can be psychologically affected by working in very noisy factories
D、may cooperate well in a noisy surrounding
答案C
解析 推断题。文章主题是噪音会影响人们的心理，文中说噪音环境中很多人会无法集中精力工作，但并没有说他们不能完成自己的工作，并会变得难以合作，但噪音并不会导致完全耳聋，故选C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/LKC7777K
0

大学英语四级

相关试题推荐
随机试题
最新回复(0)