2013年职称英语新增所有文章（理工类C）

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第十一篇：When Our Eyes Serve Our Stomach 我们的视觉服务于我们的胃口

第十九篇：Musical Robot Companion Enhances Listener Experience 音乐机器人伴侣提升音乐欣赏体验 完形填空（3篇）

第三篇：Giant Structures 巨型建筑

第八篇：Why India Needs Its Dying Vultures 印度为什么需要濒临灭亡的秃鹰

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第十一篇When Our Eyes Serve Our Stomach

Our senses aren t just delivering a strict view of what s going on in the world；they re affected by what s going on in our heads1. A new study finds that hungry people see food-related words more clearly than people who ve just eaten.

Psychologists have known for decades that what s going on inside our head affects our senses． For example, poorer children think coins are larger than they are, and hungry people think pictures of food are brighter．Rémi Radel of University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France, wanted to investigate how this happens．Does it happen right away as the brain receives signals from the eyes or a little later as the brain s high-1evel thinking processes get involved.

Radel recruited 42 students with a normal body mass index3．On the day of his or her test, each student was told to arrive at the lab at noon after three or four hours of not eating. Then they were told there was a delay. Some were told to come back in 10 minutes; others were given an hour to get lunch first. So half the students were hungry when they did the experiment and the other half had just eaten.

For the experiment, the participant looked at a computer screen．One by one, 80 words flashed on the screen for about l/300th of a second each. They flashed at so small a size that the students could only consciously perceive．A quarter of the words were food-related．After each word, each person was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of two words they d seen-a food-related word like cake or a neutral word like boat. Each word appeared too briefly for the participant to really read it．

Hungry people saw the food-related words as brighter and were better at identifying food- related words. Because the word appeared too quickly for them to be reliably seen, this means that the difference is in perception5, not in thinking processes, Radel says.

“This is something great to me．Humans can really perceive what they need or what they strive for. From the experiment, I know that our brain can really be at the disposal of 6 our motives and needs. ”Radel says.

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第十一篇 我们的视觉服务于我们的胃口

我们的五官不仅仅让我们感知世界；还受大脑活动的影响。一项新研究发现：比起那些刚刚用过餐的人，饥饿的人能更清晰地看到与食品有关的词。

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