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What is your favorite color? Do you like yellow, orange, red?     . Do you prefer grays and blues? Then you are probably quiet, shy, and you would rather follow than lead. You tend to be pessimist. At least, this is what psychologists tell us, and they should know, because they have been seriously studying the meaning of color preference, as well as the effect that colors have on human beings.     . If you happen to love brown, you did so, as soon as you opened your eyes, or at least as soon as you could see clearly.

        . A yellow room makes most people feel more cheerful and more relaxed than a dark green one; and a red dress brings warmth and cheer to the saddest winter day.      . A black bridge over the Thames River, near London, used to be the scene of more suicides（自杀）than any other bridge in the area ----until it was repainted green. The number of suicide attempts immediately fell sharply. Perhaps it would have fallen even more if the bridge had been done in pink or baby blue.

         . It is an established fact that factory workers work better, harder, and have fewer accidents when their machines are painted orange rather than black or grey.

On the other hand, black is depressing.

They tell us, among other facts, that we do not choose our favorite color as we grow up---we are born with our preference.

The rooms are painted in different colors as you like.

If you do, you must be an optimist, a leader, an active person who enjoys life, people and excitement.

Light and bright colors make people not only happier but more active.

Life is like a picture or a poem, full of different colors.

Colors do influence our moods---there is no doubt about it.

Probably the most typical mirage picture is one of a lake in a waterless desert. There may even be the appearance of waves breaking on the shore. The easiest form of mirage to study, however, is one that has been seen by millions of people—those seeming strips(条状) of water on asphalt-surfaced(沥青路面的) highway go suddenly out of sight when one comes near them.

Gordon says Operation Long Distance as the most puzzling of mirage forms, since it  ifies(使无效) a basic law of physics. The law states that the apparent size of an object seems to become smaller as we move away from it; however, this kind of mirage will carry a picture of a ship, a town, or an island a thousand miles and set it up in the sky as big as life.

Mirages may have had an effect on history: a World War Ⅰ story, which has not been really verified(考证), deals with a crucial(决定性的) battle between the Turks and the British. Supposedly, the stronger Turkish army was gaining the advantage when one of its outposts reported British reinforcements(援兵) advancing. After a hurried conference, the Turkish forces withdrew. In reality there were no advancing British troops(军队)—what had been reported was a mirage showing men who were a hundred miles away.

1. The air that carries the mirage acts as 　　　　　　   .

A. a lens　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  B. a mirror

C. an absorbent(吸收剂)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  D. a camera

2. The strips of water are the easiest form of mirage to study because they 　　　　　　   .

A. can be produced in the lab

B. appear quite often

C. have been noted all over the world

D. do not break up in a light gentle wind

3. The passage states that mirages may 　　　　　　   .

A. be reproduced in several places at the same time

B. be enlarged to huge proportions(比例)

C. last for several days

D. be carried a thousand miles

4. The author implies that history might have recorded a different winner in one battle if 　　　　　　   .

A. the Turks had described a mirage correctly

B. British troops had not been advancing

C. a Turkish outpost had not mistaken a mirage for a British advance

D. a British outpost had not reported a distant mirage

Mirages(海市蜃楼) are produced by refraction(折射) of light within a layer(层), or lens(透镜), of air. This layer of air, says meteorologist James. H. Gordon, resists disruption(混乱), even in a fairly strong wind.

Probably the most typical mirage picture is one of a lake in a waterless desert. There may even be the appearance of waves breaking on the shore. The easiest form of mirage to study, however, is one that has been seen by millions of people—those seeming strips(条状) of water on asphalt-surfaced(沥青路面的) highway go suddenly out of sight when one comes near them.

Gordon says Operation Long Distance as the most puzzling of mirage forms, since it  ifies(使无效) a basic law of physics. The law states that the apparent size of an object seems to become smaller as we move away from it; however, this kind of mirage will carry a picture of a ship, a town, or an island a thousand miles and set it up in the sky as big as life.

Mirages may have had an effect on history: a World War Ⅰ story, which has not been really verified(考证), deals with a crucial(决定性的) battle between the Turks and the British. Supposedly, the stronger Turkish army was gaining the advantage when one of its outposts reported British reinforcements(援兵) advancing. After a hurried conference, the Turkish forces withdrew. In reality there were no advancing British troops(军队)—what had been reported was a mirage showing men who were a hundred miles away.

1. The air that carries the mirage acts as 　　　　　　   .

A. a lens　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  B. a mirror

C. an absorbent(吸收剂)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  D. a camera

2. The strips of water are the easiest form of mirage to study because they 　　　　　　   .

A. can be produced in the lab

B. appear quite often

C. have been noted all over the world

D. do not break up in a light gentle wind

3. The passage states that mirages may 　　　　　　   .

A. be reproduced in several places at the same time

B. be enlarged to huge proportions(比例)

C. last for several days

D. be carried a thousand miles

4. The author implies that history might have recorded a different winner in one battle if 　　　　　　   .

A. the Turks had described a mirage correctly

B. British troops had not been advancing

C. a Turkish outpost had not mistaken a mirage for a British advance

D. a British outpost had not reported a distant mirage