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六、阅读下面短文,从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
What colour is your name? What colour is Wednesday? These questions might sound strange to most people, but some can answer right away. 1. D For another person, Wednesday is blue. These people have a condition called synaesthesia(联觉). 2. F For these people, the senses of smell, hearing, sight, touch, and taste are not separate. They might see and also hear colours.
The most common form of synaesthesia is to hear sounds as colours. A person with synaesthesia might hear the number three as blue or the letter D as red. Someone might always see green upon hearing the word April. Another person might see different colours while listening to music. 3. A To one person, beef might taste blue and to another, yellow. Some people experience feelings in colours. For example, one person with synaesthesia reports feeling pain as the colour orange.
Another form of synaesthesia is to experience sounds or tastes as shapes. 4. G Some people taste a sweet as a smooth ball. There are other forms of synaesthesia, as well. For one man, different words have different tastes. Some words taste like pork, and others taste like potatoes or eggs.
5. B Perhaps only one person in every 5,000 has it. For these people, the everyday world can be colourful and interesting.
A. Some people also taste colours.
B. Synaesthesia is not a common condition.
C. All people taste colours as they see music.
D. One person says her name is the colour red.
E. Everyone always has the form of synaesthesia.
F. This means they experience two senses at the same time.
G. Some people see music as squares and circles.

答案： 1. D 2. F 3. A 4. G 5. B