小編寄語(yǔ)：英語(yǔ)四級(jí)六級(jí)考試，閱讀是不可或缺的一大部分，生詞多，理解難，時(shí)間少，是不少考生抱怨的問(wèn)題。要想在考場(chǎng)上做好閱讀理解，必須在平常多閱讀，掌握新詞匯，提高閱讀速度。而滬江小編就為大家準(zhǔn)備了閱讀材料系列，供大家練習(xí)。

我們的這個(gè)閱讀系列旨在為大家提供一些閱讀材料，不一定跟四六級(jí)考試的難度、篇幅、內(nèi)容完全一樣。對(duì)于很多童鞋糾結(jié)這是四級(jí)還是六級(jí)范圍的閱讀，其實(shí)沒(méi)有必要。如果大家覺(jué)得比較簡(jiǎn)單，就當(dāng)作泛讀材料了解了解，認(rèn)識(shí)幾個(gè)新單詞或新表達(dá)方式也不錯(cuò)。如果大家覺(jué)得這些材料理解上有難度，不妨當(dāng)做挑戰(zhàn)自己的拔高訓(xùn)練，希望大家都有進(jìn)步^^

【今日推薦閱讀】

Girls really do prefer pink–and not just because it is pretty. Scientists have shown that females are drawn to pinks and reds and men to blues and greens – and they believe the explanation lies our hunter-gatherer past.

As the gatherers of the operation, women's brains became fine-tuned to the purples and reds of ripe fruits and berries. The men, meanwhile, developed a preference for the clear blue skies that signaled good weather for hunting.

The theory comes from Chinese scientists who asked more than 350 students to study 11 colors for three minutes.

This revealed the women to favor pink, purple and white and the men to like blue and green, the journal Personality and Individual Differences reports. The experiment also revealed introverted men to be fond of yellow and neurotic women to be keen on grey.

Orange went down well with women with a sunny disposition, while brown was out of favor with both sexes.

The Zhejiang University researchers said: "This asserts that a woman's brain is more specialised for gathering-related tasks, such as the identification of ripe fruit or edible red leaves embedded in green foliage."

The ability to pick up on reds and pinks may also have helped in choosing a suitable mate, with rosy cheeks denoting good health and a red tinge the blush of attraction.

【內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】

文章首先闡述女生更愛(ài)粉色，而男生則更喜歡藍(lán)色或綠色這一事實(shí)。

接著文章解釋了這一發(fā)現(xiàn)是如何得來(lái)的，接著文章介紹了實(shí)驗(yàn)的其他結(jié)果，并分析男女對(duì)顏色的偏好有何意義。

【詞匯短語(yǔ)講解】

①draw to? 逼近，接近

②fine-tuned 微調(diào)的，恰到好處的

③preference for? 對(duì)……的偏愛(ài)

④go down well with sb.? 為某人所接受，受某人歡迎??? out of favor with sb.? 失寵于某人

⑤pick up on? 與……熟悉起來(lái)，了解，領(lǐng)悟

⑥denote v. 表示，象征? denote多指用符號(hào)等表示，而indicate則是指用詞語(yǔ)或標(biāo)記表達(dá)比較明確的意義。

【快速閱讀支招】

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