单选题 People choose colors when they buy things. Because of this, factories want to make things that are the colors people buy. For example, a car factory needs to know how many red cars or green ones they should make. Good businessmen (商人) know that young people's colors are different from old people's, and men's are different from women's.
Young children react(反应) to the color of anything before they react to its shape. They like warm colors—red, yellow, and orange. When people get older, they begin to react more to the shape than color. The most liked color of grown-ups of all countries is blue. Their second loved color is red and their third is green.
On the whole, women like brighter colors than men do. Almost everyone likes red, but women like yellow and green more than men do.
If two things are the same except color, they will look different. A red thing always looks nearer than a blue one just like bright things look larger than dark ones. That's why large or fat people who want to look smaller or thinner wear dark clothes.

单选题 Why do factories want to know how people feel about different colors?
A. People care more about the colors of things than shapes.
B. People choose to buy things by their colors.
C. People like things with bright colors.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 短文第一段第一句话提到人们在购物时会选择颜色,但并不没有提到人们在购物时会更少关注到形状,所以选项[A]是错误的。
单选题 According to the text, orange is a color liked by ______.
A. women and men
B. women and children
C. women, children, and men
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 此题可以在短文第二及第三段找到答案,第二段中提到儿童喜欢橙色,在第三段第一句中提及女人喜欢亮色。
单选题 When children pick up things, they are first interested in the ______.
A. color
B. shape
C. size
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 第二段第一句话已经给出了本题答案,“Young children react to the color of anything before they react to its shape”即,儿童对于颜色的反应要先于其对外形的反应。
单选题 If we put the same red mid blue boxes together, the red one looks ______.
A. smaller
B. bright
C. bigger
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 根据短文第四段给出的信息“A red thing always looks nearer than a blue one just like bright things look larger than darker one.”如亮色物体看起来要比深色物体大—样,红色物体看起来要比蓝色物体近,可以知道如果某物看起来离我们近的话,就意味着其更大,所以答案应为 [C]。
单选题 A good title (题目) for this text could be ______.
A. Color and Business
B. People and Color
C. Bright Color and Dark Color
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 整个文章都在讲颜色在人们生活中的影响,比如对购物的影响,对着装的影响等等。所以文章的题目应该是“人们与颜色”。