F
Different colours have different effects on us
1 We use colours which make us feel safe and comfortable to decorate our homes. We dress ourselves and show ourselves to the world in our favourite colours. Colours’ influence over all of us is powerful and the following are some fun facts about colours that may surprise you.
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Studies have found that babies as young as two weeks old can tell(辨别) the colour red from other colours. As they grow up, the number of colours they can tell continues to increase until they can tell all the colours by the age about five months.
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Studies of accidents and colours have found that white is the colour of cars least likely to cause an accident resulting in death. 4 Black. It is found that deadly accidents are 12 per cent more likely to happen among cars of that colour.
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Scientists suggest that if you are on a diet, remember not to use these two colours in your kitchen! It is found that people eat 24 per cent more food when seeing red with yellow. Fast-food companies found this out years ago and started using these two colours in their logos(标识;标志), advertisements and restaurant designs(设计).
A. Red is the first colour a baby sees.
B. Green is the colour of nature and represents(代表) new life and growth.
C. We are surrounded(环绕) by colours and we use them every day.
D. Blue can make people feel peaceful and calm.
E. White is the colour of safety.
F. Yellow and red together make you hungry.
G. What is the least safe colour?
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

1. C 2. A 3. E 4. G 5. F

G
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You may have already forgotten the days when you had to learn how to use chopsticks. Every Chinese kid struggles with them for some time. 2 They come with their own special rules and traditions.
3 Playing with chopsticks is seen as bad manners, just as making noise with forks and knives in a Western country would be rude.
There are also some things related to chopsticks. For example, some people believe that chopsticks should not be left standing upright in a bowl. It looks like the incense(香) that Chinese people use to honour the dead. 4
You should not tap chopsticks on the edge of the bowl either, as beggars do this to ask for food. Parents may get mad if children do this as they don’t want their children to be as poor as beggars in the future.
Apart from being tableware, chopsticks can also be a great gift. 5 Newlyweds(新婚夫妇) sometimes receive chopsticks as a wedding gift. Skilled craftsmen paint beautiful images on chopsticks to make them look like fine artworks.
A. How Chinese kids learn to use chopsticks
B. People should not make noise with chopsticks.
C. Learn the rules and traditions behind chopsticks
D. Doing it at the dinner table is believed to bring bad luck.
E. But chopsticks are not just simple tools to pick up food.
F. We should learn the traditional culture behind forks and knives well.
G. In Chinese, the word “chopsticks” reads “$kuaizi$”, which means to have babies soon.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

1. C 2. E 3. B 4. D 5. G