听力原文:W: Can I help you, sir?
M: Um, yes. I bought this radio cassette player here a couple of weeks ago. Here's the receipt.
W: Ah ha. That's fine. What seems to be the problem?
M: Well, it's been nothing but trouble since I bought it.
W: OK. Just let me take a note of this. Er, radio cassette player.
M: The first thing is one of the speakers doesn't work properly. The sound is completely distorted with the radio or a tape.
W: Which one is it?
M: The right-hand one. Another problem is the left cassette player. It chews up tapes. It's completely ruined two of my favorite cassettes.
W: Oh, dear. The speaker and the cassette player.
M: One of the cassettes was brand new. Oh, and the rewind switch doesn't work. Actually it never did.
W: OK. So there is the right-hand speaker ... the cassette player and ... urn, the rewind switch. Is that it'?
M: No, I'm afraid not. The aerial doesn't work properly. It's stuck.
W: Hmm, 1 see what you mean. The handle is broken too.
M: Yes, I'd forgotten about that. It's not very good, is it?
W: Er, no. But it's under guarantee and we can repair it. Just give me your name and phone number. We'll give you a ring when it's ready.
Where are the two people, most probably?
At an electric appliances store.
B. At a repair shop.
C. At a restaurant.
D. At a garage.
The fact that blind people can "see" things using other parts of their bodies apart from their eyes may help us to understand our feelings about color. If they can sense color differences, then perhaps we, too, are affected by color unconsciously.
Manufacturers have discovered by trial and error that sugar sells badly in green wrappings, that blue foods are considered unpleasant, and the cosmetics should never be packaged in brown. These discoveries have grown into a whole discipline of color psychology that now finds application in everything from fashion to interior decoration. Some of our preferences are clearly psychological. Dark blue is the color of the night sky and therefore associated with passivity and calm, while yellow is a day color with associations of energy and incentive. For primitive man, activity during the day meant hunting and attacking, while he soon saw as red, the color of blood and rage and the heat that came with effort. And green is associated with passive defence and self-preservation. Experiments have shown that colors, partly because of their physiological associations, also have a direct psychological effect. People exposed to bright red show an increase in heartbeat, and blood pressure; red is exciting. Similar exposure to pure blue has exactly the opposite effect; it is a calming color. Because of its exciting connotations, red was chosen as the signal for danger, but closer analysis shows that a vivid yellow can produce a more basic state of alertness and alarm, so fire engines and ambulances in some advanced communities are now rushing around in bright yellow colors.
Manufacturers found out that color affects sales______.
A. by experience over a long period of time
B. by experimenting with different colors
C. by trying out color on blind people
D. by developing the discipline of color psychology
Before his death last year, Professor Talline decided that he _________ leave $100,000 to
A. can
B. would
C. may
D. shall
The National Geographic Society headquarters, _________ in Washington,D.C , is well- known
A. situated
B. placed
C. stood
D. positioned