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  3. Clearly, a person’s decisions are determined by circumstances. Experiments conducted over the past few years have revealed that

Clearly, a person’s decisions are determined by circumstances. Experiments conducted over the past few years have revealed that

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问题    Clearly, a person’s decisions are determined by circumstances. Experiments conducted over the past few years have revealed that giving someone an icy drink at a party leads him to believe he is getting the cold shoulder from fellow guests, that handing over a warm drink gives people a sense of warmth from others.
   The latest of these studies also looks at the effect of furniture. It suggests that something as trivial as the stability of chairs and tables has an effect on perceptions and desires.
   The researchers asked half of their volunteers to sit in a slightly wobbly chair next to a slightly wobbly table while engaged in the task assigned. The others were asked to sit in chairs next to tables that looked physically identical, but were not wobbly.
   Once in their chairs, participants were asked to judge the stability of the relationships of four celebrity couples. They did this by rating on a scale of one to seven, that a couple would break up in the next five years. A score of one meant "extremely unlikely to dissolve" . A score of seven meant "extremely likely to dissolve" .
   After they had done this, they were asked to rate their preferences for various traits in a potential romantic partner. Traits on offer included some which associate with a sense of psychological stability, some that are associated with psychological instability and some with no real relevance to instability or stability. Participants rated the various traits on another one-to-seven scale, with one indicating "not at all desirable" and seven meaning "extremely desirable" .
   The results reveal that just as cold drinks lead to perceptions of social conditions being cold, feelings of physical instability leads to perceptions of social instability. Participants who sat in wobbly chairs at wobbly tables gave the celebrity couples an average stability score of 3.2 while those whose furniture did not wobble gave them 2.5.
   What was particularly intriguing, though, was that those sitting at wonky furniture not only saw instability in the relationships of others but also said that they valued stability in their own relationships more highly. They gave stability-promoting traits in potential romantic partners an average desirability score of 5.0, whereas those whose tables and chairs were stable gave these same traits a score of 4.5. The difference is not huge, but it is statistically significant. Even a small amount of environmental wobbliness seems to promote a desire for an emotional rock to cling to.
   
What’s the main idea of this article ?
选项 A、Furniture has great influence on people’s behavior.
B、People would not like to get cold drink.
C、Celebrities always divorce and like attractive partners in marriage.
D、Environmental instability may impact on people’s viewpoint and aspiration.
答案D
解析 主旨题。本文在开头段指出环境会影响人们做出决定，但主体部分都在描述一个通过家具的不稳定性来证明其对人们的观念和愿望有影响的一个实验。而且文章最后一段指出是环境的不稳定导致人们想抓住情感的救命稻草。故文章的主旨为环境的不稳定对人们的观念和愿望有影响，而非单指家具。因此，此题答案为D项。
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