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  3. Yellow or pink flowers? The green or blue sweater? We make decisions about color all the time. Now, scientists are starting to f

Yellow or pink flowers? The green or blue sweater? We make decisions about color all the time. Now, scientists are starting to f

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问题     Yellow or pink flowers? The green or blue sweater? We make decisions about color all the time. Now, scientists are starting to figure【C1】______ why we like the colors we do.
    It is our experiences that determine which colors we prefer,【C2】______a new study, which was the first to【C3】______ test the long-suspected idea that people like the colors of the things they like. In their【C4】______ to understand why people like certain colors, scientists have【C5】______on evolution. The main theory is that we like colors that are【C6】______ to things that are healthy and promote survival. A blue sky, for example, indicates calm weather, which【C7】______ explain why blue tends to be a (n)【C8】______ color across cultures. Dark yellows and oranges,【C9】______, invoke urine, vomit and rotting food.【C10】______expected, there is usually a drop in preference【C11】______ these colors in studies around the world.
  【C12】______ those general trends, there are wide-ranging differences among individuals about which colors they like. As part of a【C13】______of experiments, the researchers showed slide shows of colored objects to a group of【C14】______. They found that people preferred whichever color had been linked to the【C15】______ images they saw, whether red or green.
    In another【C16】______ study, the researchers found that Berkeley students who【C17】______ highest in school spirit had the strongest preferences for blue and gold, their school’s colors, and the most【C18】______ for red and white, the colors of their rival Stanford. Spirited
Stanford students showed the opposite【C19】______, suggesting that social connections can influence which colors we like at different times in our lives.
    People are generally interested in the subtle differences between people and what has【C20】______ that. Color provides a tool to understand why we like some things more than others.
【C16】
选项 A、effective
B、substantial
C、preliminary
D、contemporary
答案C
解析 形容词辨析题。句意为：在另外一项初步的研究中，调查者发现伯克利大学最看重学校团队精神的学生最喜欢的颜色是蓝色和金色，因为这是他们学校的代表色……。通读整篇文章可知，作者用started to，first，experimentally等字眼强调：有关颜色的研究是初步的、试验性的。因此preliminary“初步的；预备的”符合文章的基调，为最佳选项。而effective“有效的”，substantial“重大的；价值巨大的”和contemporary“当代的”都与文意不符，故排除。
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