Atividade de Inglês – Prof. Geralda

Atividade de Inglês – Prof. Geralda

1, 2 e 3° Anos

“Looks right to me”

It is know that people tend to subconsciously prefer the rightmost object in a sequence IF given no other choise criteria,”says New Scientist Magazine. When researchers at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville laid out a display of four identical items of clothing and asked people to pick which they thought was the best quality, “sure enough about four out of five participants did favour the gament on the right. Yet when asked why they made the choise they did, nobody gave position as a reason. It was always about the fineness of the weave, richer colour or superior texture. This suggest that while we may make our decisions subconsciously, we think and rationalize them in our consciousness, and the way we do so, may be pure fiction or confabulation, something which is not true.”

Fonte: www.Indekx.com (Globe and Mail). Acess: Oct. 2006.

Questions:

1) According to the text, people really preferred the clothes on the right because they were

a)at a good price

b)in that position

c)of inferior texture

d)out of order

e)of medium quality

2)In the text, researchers came to the conclusion that, in our consciousness, WE

a)believe deeply in the explanations to our decisions

b)distrust the explanations to our decisions

c)invent the explanations to our decisions

d) worry about the explanations to our decisions

e)talk about the explanations to our decisions

3)In the text, the verb PICK means

a)choose

b)describe

c)repeat

d)substitute

e)sell