?2013年廣東自考學位英語真題及答案（三）

2013年廣東自考學位英語真題及答案（三）

Passage Two

The faces of elderly, happily-married people sometimes resemble each other. Dr. Aiken studied a number of couples who had been married for at least twenty-five years. Each couple provided four photographs—one photo of each partner at the time of their marriage and another photo of each partner twenty-five or more years later. All background was cut from the photos to remove any clues. The photos were then displayed in groups: a random grouping of the persons at the time of their marriage and another random grouping of the same persons who took photographs later. Some testees were asked to pick out the partners. They failed totally with the first group. Their judgements were no better than chance. But with the photos taken twenty-five or more years after the marriage, the testees were quite successful with the most happily-married couples.

Dr. Aiken believes there are several reasons why couples grow alike. One reason has something to do with imitation. One person tends to copy or do the same as someone else without knowing it. He says human begins to imitate the expressions of the faces of their loved ones. “Another possible reason,” he says, “is the common experience of the couples.” There is a tendency for people who have the same life experience to change their faces in similar ways. For example, if a couple have suffered from a lot of sad experiences, their faces are likely to change in a similar way.

21. Dr. Aiken cut the background from the photos for the purpose of __________.

A. imitating the couples’ life

B. grouping the couples again

C. leaving no trace for the testees

D. giving the testees more chances

22. The underlined sentence “Their judgements were no better than chance” implies that the testees __________.

A. did a good job in making their choices.

B. had difficulty in picking out the partners

C. had no chance to make the right judgements

D. did better with the first group than with the second

23. The underlined word “imitate” (in Para. 2) has a similar meaning to __________.

A. copy B. change C. know D. suffer

24. From the passage we can draw the conclusion that ___________.

A. couples who look alike can live longer

B. most partners have been proved to grow alike

C. the influence between partners can be quite strong

D. happily-married couples are often richer than others

25. The main purpose of the passage is to ___________.

A. explain why couples grow alike

B. tell how couples like each other

C. discuss the function of marriage

D. describe the life of happily married couples

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