Your name made you do it, though unconsciously, suggests new research that finds your name can negatively make you achieve less. Psychologists at Yale and the University of California, San Diego studying the unconscious influence of names say a preference for our own names and initials — the “name-letter effect” — can have some negative consequences.
Students whose names begin with C or D get lower grades than those whose names begin with A or B; major league baseball players whose first or last names began with K (the strikeout-signifying letter) are significantly more likely to strike out.
Assistant professors Leif Nelson of UCSD and Joseph Simmons of Yale have conducted five studies over five years using information from thousands of individuals.
“The conscious process is baseball players want to get a hit and students want to get A's,” Nelson says. “So if you get a change in performance consistent with the name-letter effect, it clearly shows there must be some unconscious desire operating in the other direction.”
The researchers' work supports a series of studies published since 2002 that have found the “name-letter effect” causes people to make life choices based on names that resemble their own. Those studies by Brett Pelham, an associate professor at SUNY University, have found that people are disproportionately(不定比例地)likely to live in states or cities resembling their names, have careers that resemble their names and even marry those whose surnames begin with the same letter as their own.
The twist, Pelham says, is that he has believed the name-letter effect would apply only to positive outcomes. Nelson and Simmons, he says, are “showing it applies more so to negative things than positive things.”
The researchers say the effect is definitely more than coincidence but is small nevertheless. “I know plenty of Chrises and Davids who have done very well in school,” Simmons says.
1.The new research is mainly about the relationship between one’s ______.
A.name and unconsciousness |
B.name and characteristics |
C.name and success |
D.sports and school achievements |
2.Who may serve as an example to show the “name-letter effect”?
A.Miss Smith working as a lawyer. |
B.Charles Brown married to Sue Rogers. |
C.Mr. Watt living in Washington |
D.Paula Snow fond of the color white. |
3.Which can be used to explain the underlined word “twist” in the last but one paragraph?
A.Difference. |
B.Conclusion. |
C.Funny side. |
D.Shared part. |
4.The last paragraph mainly tells us that the “name-letter effect” ______.
A.isn’t believed in by many people |
B.doesn’t work with certain names |
C.may not really exist |
D.is often too small to show |
1.C
2.C
3.A
4.D
【解析】
試題分析:這篇文章介紹了名字的消極的作用,具體的說就是名字的字母會影響一個人的成功,也會影響人們的職業(yè)或居住點(diǎn)等。
1.主旨題:從文章第一段的第一句話:Your name made you do it, though unconsciously, suggests new research that finds your name can negatively make you achieve less. 可知名字和是否成功是有關(guān)系的。選C
2.推理題:從第五段的句子:have found that people are disproportionately(不定比例地)likely to live in states or cities resembling their names,可知人們選擇居住點(diǎn)也是和名字相似的,所以選C
3.猜詞題;從倒數(shù)第二段的句子:看出這兩種觀點(diǎn)是不同的,有的認(rèn)為名字有積極的影響,有的認(rèn)為名字的消極影響大于積極影響。選A
4.從最后一段的句子;The researchers say the effect is definitely more than coincidence but is small nevertheless. 可知名字的作用是很小的。選D
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