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厦门大学网络教育2014-2015学年第一学期 《英语1》课程复习题 I. Reading Comprehension: Passage 1 Ask three people to look out the same window at a busy street corner and tell you what they see. Chances are you will receive three different answers. Each person sees the same scene, but each perceives something different about it. Perceiving goes on in our minds. Of the three people who look out the window, one may say that he sees a policeman giving a motorist a ticket. Another may say that he sees a rush-hour traffic jam at the intersection. The third may tell you that he sees a woman trying to cross the street with four children in tow. For perception is the mind’s interpretation of what the senses---in this case our eyes---tell us. Many psychologists today are working to try to determine just how a person experiences or perceives the world around him. Using a scientific approach, these psychologists set up experiments in which they can control all of the factors. By measuring and charting the results of many experiments, they are trying to find out what makes different people perceive totally different things about the same scene. The best title for this passage isB. A. How We SeeB. Learning About Our Minds Through Science C. What Psychologists Perceive D. Interesting Experiments Seeing and perceiving areC. A. the same actionB. two actions carried on entirely by the eyes C. two separate actionsD. actions that take place at different times. Perceiving is an action that takes placeD. A. in our eyes.B. only when we think very hard about something. C. only under the directions of a psychologist D. in every person’s mind Perception involves whatD. A. our senses tell usB. our minds interpret C. we see with our eyes only D. both A and B Psychologists study perception byA. A. setting up many experimentsB. asking each other what they see C. looking out of windowsD. studying people’s eyes Passage 2 Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother and father were of Purita