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[简答题]Honesty is the best policy, as the English saying goes. Unfortunately, honesty often deserts us when nobody is watching, British psychologists reported last week.
Researchers at UK’s Newcastle University set up an experiment in their psychology department’s coffee room.
They set a kettle, with tea, coffee and milk on the counter and hung up a sign listing the price for drinks. People helping themselves to a cup of tea or coffee were supposed to put a few cents into a box nearby.
The scientists hung a poster above the money box and alternated each week between images of gazing eyes and pictures of flowers.
The researchers found that staff paid 2.76 times more for their drinks when the image of the eyes was hung.
“Frankly we were shocked by the size of the effect,” said Gilbert Roberts, one of the researchers.
Eyes are known to be a powerful perceptual signal for humans, scientists say.
“Even though the eyes were not real, they still seemed to make people beha
A. A．if pictures can affect people’s choice of their drinks
B．if pictures of eyes can make people more watchful
C．if people have different responses to the same picture
D．if people behave better when they feel they are being watched
[单项选择]There is an English saying: "Laughter is best medicine." Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body. (76)They have found that laughter really can improve people’s health.
Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. (77) It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.
Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated the pain for the lon
A. smiling does good to health
B. laughter can produce pain
C. there is a way to reduce pain
D. laughter can work the muscles in the feet
[简答题]There is an English saying: "laughter is best medicine./
[填空题]She told them that honesty (be)（）the best policy.
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Parents might say “honesty is the best policy,” but when it comes to talking with their own children, mom and dad lie surprisingly often, finds a new study carried out by researchers in the University of Toronto, Canada.
Almost every parent in the study admits having come up with some tales to influence a child’s actions and feelings. For example, a parent is annoyed by a child’s crying and says, “The police will come to get you if you don’t stop crying now.” In another example, an uncle has just died and the child is told that he has become a star to watch over the child.
Whether parents lie to benefit themselves or to protect the child, researchers suggest such tall tales could give children mixed messages at a time when they are trying to figure out how to deal with the social world.
Lies could also harm the parent-child relationship. It could even keep children from learning certain rules. “If I am always lying to the child in order to get the child to do X, Y, or Z, the
A. They may fall behind in school.
B. They may lie to their parents too.
C. They may get confused about the society.
D. They may feel they are being overprotected.
