It's surprising how much simple movement of the body can affect the way we think. Using expansive gestures with open arms makes us feel more powerful, crossing your arms makes you more determined and lying down can bring more insights(领悟).
So if moving the body can have these effects, what about the clothes we wear? We're all well aware of how dressing up in different ways can make us feel more attractive, sporty or professional, depending on the clothes we wear, but can the clothes actually change cognitive(认知) performance or is it just a feeling?
Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people's powers of attention. The idea is that white coats are associated with scientists, who are in turn thought to have close attention to detail.
What they found was that people wearing white coats performed better than those who weren't. Indeed, they made only half as many errors as those wearing their own clothes on the Stroop Test(one way of measuing attention). The reserchrs call the effect "enclothed cognition," suggesting that all manner of different clothes probably affect our cognition in many differnt ways.
This opens the way for all sorts of clothes-based experiments. Is the writer who wears a fedora more creative? Is the psychologist wearing little round glasses and smoking a cigar more insightful? Does a chef's hat make the restaurant food taste better?
From now on I will only be editing artcles for PsyBlog while wearing a white coat to help keep the typing error count low. Hopefully you will be doing your part by reading PsyBlog in a cap and gown(学位服).
1.What is the main idea of the text?
A. Body movements change the way people think.
B. How people dress has an influencee on their feelings.
C. What people wear can affect their cognitive performance.
D. People doing different jobs should wear different clothes.
2.Adam and Galinsky's experiment tested the effect of clothes on their wearers'______.
A. insights B. movements
C. attention D. appearance
3.How does the author sound in the last paragraph?
A. Academic. B. Humorous.
C. Formal. D. Hopeful.
假如你是王林，你的朋友李华想要加入健身俱乐部。请根据下面一则广告提供的信息给他写一封电子邮件，向他推荐。信的开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
注意：行文连贯，涵盖要点，适当发挥。词数100左右。
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加，删除或修改。每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
Hi Chris
I think going to a gym is a good way to keep health and strong. If your friend wants to be stronger, and he should try to go there more often.
Yes, there have some pills to make you look strong. Therefore, they have side effects, that will damage your health. After your friend taking this kind of pill for some time, his hair might fell out or he might have health problems, some of which may even affect her liver or heart. Some athlete, whose achievements were great, died very young because they take this kind of pill. I don’t think your friend should take the risk .
Tell your friend not take the pills because he may have health problems in the future, when it is too late.
Jeff
There once were a goat and a donkey 1. (live) on a farm. The donkey worked the hardest so the farmer 2. (feed) it the most food. Sometimes the donkey was given more food 3. it could eat. This made the goat so jealous4. it began plotting against（谋划对付）the donkey. "Hey, donkey," the goat said one day. "I think you do too much work on this farm. You carry such heavy things from morning to night. Why don't you pretend 5.（get）sick so you can take a day 6.?'' The donkey thought the goat had a great idea. So the next morning, the donkey lay in the stable（畜栏）on its side with its eyes 7.（close）.8. ( immediate ), the farmer called the doctor. After looking at the donkey, the doctor said it needed a special 9. ( medical ) made from the heart of a goat. So the farmer killed 10.goat and gave the donkey medicine made from its heart.
Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, _______ in a hotel for a short period of time while________ a house for me and our children.
During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to _______ that his suitcase was _______. He was extremely ____ as the suitcase had all his important ________, including his passport.
He reported the _______ to the police and then sat there，lost and ______ in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork ______ again from a distant country while trying to _______ in a new one.
Late in the evening, the _______ rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to ______ my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can that had been left out on the footpath.
My husband ______ to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of ______ papers. Then, her parents had carefully sorted them out, ______ they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. ______ they had seen a half-written ____ in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.
That family not only ______ the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and _______ in people. Now, we ______ remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.
1.A. stayed B. waited C. worked D. slept
2.A. picking up B. taking up C. looking for D. paying for
3.A. discover B. know C. catch D. see
4.A. disappeared B. losing C. missed D. gone
5.A. angry B. worried C. lucky D. frightened
6.A. works B. instructions C. papers D. clothes
7.A. crime B. case C. activity D. problem
8.A. alone B. lonely C. stressful D. equal
9.A. sent B. done C. organised D. made
10.A. settle down B. put down C. cut down D. calm down
11.A. door bell B. alarm C. phone D. sound
12.A. ask B. tell C. pronounce D. judge
13.A. rushed B. walked C. flew D. drove
14.A. old B. previous C. important D. unfamiliar
15.A. because B. although C. as if D. when
16.A. In all B. At last C. At first D. In conclusion
17.A. letter B. book C. e-mail D. report
18.A. brought B. gave C. restored D. carried
19.A. friendship B. competition C. sympathy D. trust
20.A. also B. ever C. never D. still
As we know, everyone can make mistakes, but don’t worry about it. The following is what we should do when we make mistakes.
★Just admit (承认)it. Don’t think that our mistakes are caused by others. 1. Don’t blame other people, and don’t cheat ourselves, either.
★2.. In order to stop the problem from getting worse, we should act quickly to solve it. If we don’t act and deal with the problem quickly, it’ll only make us feel more stressed. Also it is necessary to make a plan of action and correct the mistake according to it. 3..
★4. . Those who have made the most mistakes can get an A, for they are the ones who have learned the most. The more we learn from our mistakes, the cleverer we are.
★5.. What caused us to make the mistake? How can we avoid making the same mistake in the future? When we act with a method to get a good result, do it that way next time. If we don’t, we should stop, think about it, change it and try again.
A. Think about what we can learn from our mistakes.
B. Be brave and face the fact that we have made the mistakes.
C. So decide quickly and act.
D. Realize that making mistakes is the best way to learn.
E. Solve it at once.
F. Don’t be afraid of failure.
G. So be away from stress.
