Colors are sometimes called hot, cold, or neutral(中性的). Red and yellow are said to be hot colors because they make a room warmer and the walls nearer to us than they really are. We say that blue and green are cold because they give us the opposite feeling. A neutral color is one that does not seem to affect our feelings. Brown and grey are both neutral, and they may also be mixed with hot or cold colors to reduce their effect on our feelings.
We can begin to see the importance of color selection. Although red might be perfect for a restaurant, it would be wrong for an art exhibition room, where we want to look at the paintings, not the walls behind. Because of its effect on size, white could be used to make a small room seem larger, or dark blue to make a large one seem smaller.
Another way that we sometimes speak of a color is to say that it is loud or quiet. Again we are talking about the feeling that the color gives us. We use sound to express how much the color catches our attention.

单选题 If a man wants to make a room warmer, which color will he choose for the walls?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】事实细节题。由题干中的make a room warmer定位至文章第一段第二句。定位句提到红色和黄色使房间看起来更温暖，使我们感觉与墙壁之间的距离比实际距离要近一些，故本题正确答案为B)。

单选题 Which color can be used with blue color to reduce its effect on our feelings?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】细节推断题。由题干中的reduce和effect定位至文章第一段最后一句。定位句提到褐色和灰色为中性颜色，可以与暖色或冷色搭配以减少色彩给人的感觉。因此蓝色可以与褐色和灰色搭配，以减少蓝色给人的感觉，故本题正确答案为C)。

单选题 According to the second paragraph, red is most suitable for______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】事实细节题。由题干中的the second paragraph定位至文章第二段。本段第二句提到，红色或许是餐馆的完美色调，但并不适合展览馆，因为在那里人们想要欣赏的是画作而非墙壁，故本题正确答案为A)。

单选题 People would paint a small room in white because______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】事实细节题。由题干中的a small room和white定位至文章第二段最后一句。定位句提到白色可以使小房间看起来大一些，故本题正确答案为C)。

单选题 Loud and quiet colors give people______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】细节推断题。由题干中的Loud和quiet定位至文章最后一段第一句。定位句提到颜色可用“吵闹”和“安静”来描述，下一句提到“吵闹”和“安静”亦指颜色给人的感觉。loud和quiet为意义上的反义词，因此可推断用来表示颜色时它们给人相反的感觉，故本题正确答案为B)。