2023年山东学位英语考试阅读理解（五）

The faces of elderly,happily-married people sometimes resemble each other.Dr.Aiken studied anumber of couples who had been married for at least twenty-fiveyears.Each couple provided fourphotographs-one photo of each partner at the time of their marriage and another photo of eachpartner twenty-five or more years later.All background was cut from the photos to remove anyclues.The photos were then displayed in groups: a random grouping of the persons at the time oftheir marriage and another random grouping of the same persons who took photographslater.Some judges were asked to pick out the partners.They failed totally with the first group.Theiljudgements were no better than chance.But with the photos taken twenty-five or more yearsafter the marriage,the judges were quite successful at deciding who was married to whom.Theywere particularly successful with the most happily-married couples.

Dr.Aiken believes there are several reasons why couples grow alike.One reason has something todo with imitation.One person tends to copy or do the same as someone else without knowing

it.He says human begins imitate the expressions of the faces of their loved ones.Another possiblereason,he says,is the common experience of the couplesThere is a tendency for people who havethe same life experience to change their faces in similar ways.For example,if a couple sufferedfrom a lot of sad experiences,their faces are likely to change in a similar way.

21. Dr. Aiken cut the background from the photos for the purpose of

A. imitating the coupleslife

B.grouping the couples again

C.leaving no trace for the testees

D. giving the testees more chances

22.The underlined sentence Their judgements were no better than chance m implies that thetestees

A. did a good job in making their choices

B. had difficulty in picking out the partners 

C. had no chance to make the right judgements

D. did better with the first group than with the second

23.The underlined word imitate /(in Para. 2) has a similar meaning to

A.copy       B.change           C.know        D, suffer

24.From the passage we can draw the conclusion that

A. couples who look alike can live longer

B.most partners have been proved to grow alike

C. the influence between partners can be quite strong

D. happily-married couples are often richer than others

25. The main purpose of the passage is to

A.explain why couples grow alike

B. tell how couples like each other

C. discuss the function of marriage

D describe the life of happily married couples

答案： 21-25 C BACAB

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