2024年12月英语六级听力真题 卷一录音2

Recording Two

录音二

When it comes to food, color is money.

当谈到食物时，颜色就是金钱。

Food companies know that better color gives better prices, so they ensure that their products are attractive in color to bolster earnings.

食品公司知道更好的颜色能卖出更好的价格，因此他们确保自己的产品在颜色上吸引人，以增强收益。

Oranges, for example, have to meet specific color standards, and oranges are just the beginning.

例如，橙子必须满足特定的颜色标准，而橙子只是开始。

There are color standards for foods including French fries, tomatoes, pumpkins, olives,honey, and milk.

食品有颜色标准，包括薯条、番茄、南瓜、橄榄、蜂蜜和牛奶。

The attention to color is for good reason.

对颜色的关注是有充分理由的。

For all the talk of the tongue, our eyes really might be the most important part of the eating experience.

尽管我们经常谈论味觉，但眼睛可能是用餐体验中最重要的部分。

A great number of our brain functions are dedicated to processing vision, while only a percent or two is given over to taste faculties, and the result is that color actually changes how we taste food.

我们的大脑功能中有很大一部分是专门用于处理视觉的，而只有百分之一或百分之二用于味觉能力，结果就是颜色实际上改变了我们对食物的口味。

Scientists have demonstrated many times the importance of color to taste.

科学家多次证明了颜色对味道的重要性。

In a 1980s study,for example, test participants were asked to name the flavor of the beverage they were drinking without being able to see that beverage.

例如，在1980年代的一项研究中，测试参与者被要求说出他们正在喝的饮料是什么味道，而他们无法看到那种饮料。

Only one in five was able to identify it as orange.

只有五分之一的人能够识别出它是橙色。

But when they were allowed to see what they were drinking, which was orange in color, each of them identified the orange flavor.

但是当他们被允许看到他们正在喝的饮料，那是橙色的，他们每个人都识别出了橙子的味道。

None made that mistake when the beverage was green in color.

当饮料是绿色的时候，没有人犯那个错误。

What's happening when someone fails to identify the flavor of a beverage they can't see, or that has an abnormal color?

当某人无法识别他们看不见的饮料或颜色异常的饮料的风味时，发生了什么？

Is it that participants can't discern what the flavor is and so rely on visual cues? Or does color actually change the experience of taste?

参与者是不是无法分辨出味道，因此依赖视觉提示？还是颜色实际上改变了味觉体验？

The key to these questions is the effect of color on expectation.The brain makes predictions using color.

这些问题的关键在于颜色对期望的影响。大脑使用颜色来进行预测。

These predictions rely on expectations that come from experience.

这些预测依赖于来自经验的期望。

Research shows that we're all born liking sweet things and desire to eat them.

研究表明，我们生来都喜欢甜食并渴望食用它们。

But we aren't born knowing what the sweet things we crave look like, so we need to learn this over time.

但我们并非生来就知道我们渴望的甜食是什么样子，所以我们需要随时间学习这一点。

The brain gets information from the environment, and we learn, for example, that fruits go from green and sour to red and ripe and sweet.

大脑从环境中获取信息，我们学习到，例如，水果会从绿色和酸涩变成红色和成熟，变得甜美。

Thus, if we see a green berry, we equate its color with a sour taste.

因此，如果我们看到一个绿色的浆果，我们会将它的颜色与酸味联系起来。

And just looking at a red fruit will activate our expectations that it will taste sweet and delicious.

仅仅看到一种红色的水果就会激活我们对它味道甜美可口的期待。

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.

问题19到21是基于你刚才听到的录音。

Q19. What does the speaker say about our eyes?

问题19. 说话者关于我们的双眼说了什么？

Q20. What does colour actually do according to this lecture?

问题20. 根据这次讲座，颜色实际上有什么作用？

Q21. What does the brain use colour to do?

问题21. 大脑使用颜色来做什么？

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