阅读理解
That some people make weird associations between the senses has been acknowledged for over a century. The condition has even been given a name: synaesthesia. Odd as it may seem to those not so gifted, synaesthetes insist that spoken sounds and the symbols which represent them give rise to specific colours or that individual musical notes have their own hues.
单选题
1."Synaesthesia" (Para. 1) probably has the same meaning to______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】含义题。根据题干关键词定位到第一段。根据语境，本段第二句The condition has even been given a name：synaesthesia中的The condition指的是第一句的associations between the senses。第三句则讲了synaesthetes的观点，即听到说话的声音时，他们脑子里出现的是特殊的颜色，还会说每个音符都有自己的色彩。第二段开头提到Yet there may be a little of this cross-modal association in everyone，把他们的观点理解成是cross-modal association，故synaesthesia的意思就是cross-modal association(通感)，因此B项为正确答案。
单选题
2.All of the following associations can be called synaesthesia EXCEPT______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】推断题。根据题干关键词定位到前两段。C项“声音和象征”并没有在原文中提及，且“象征”与感官无关，因此C项sound and symbol不是通感，为正确答案。
单选题
3.It can be inferred from the researchers' first finding that______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】推断题。第五段提到in a multisensory world and their brains tirelessly combine information from all sources to make sense，可以发现D项是原文的同义表述，为正确答案。
单选题
4.The experiment of toffee aims to______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】推断题。根据题干关键词定位到第六段。本段第一句指出Taste，too，seems linked to hearing(味觉似乎也与听觉有关联)，接着提到了一项关于太妃糖的实验，最后指出It was the sound that tasted different(声音才是尝起来味道不一样的东西)，可见实验证明了味觉与听觉是有联系的，因此，A项是实验的根本目的。
单选题
5.According to the text, which of the following is true?
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】细节题。由第六段Volunteers rated the toffee eaten during low-pitched music as more bitter than that consumed during the high-pitched performance可知D项“在音调高的音乐中吃太妃糖更甜”是原文的同义再现，为正确答案。