The magician (魔术师) usually depends on his skill with his hands, and on his knowl

The magician (魔术师) usually depends on his skillwith his hands, and on his knowledge of psychology (心理学). Since magic tricks are meantto fool people, the use of psychology is important. The magician must keeppeople from noticing all the movement of his hands and from thinking about thesecret parts of his equipment. He must also lead the people to draw falseconclusions. The magician’s success depend on the fact that many things seen bythe eye do not register(记下)on the mind.

Two basic magic tricks are makingobjects seem to appear or to disappear. For example, the magician puts a smallball under one of several cups. The ball then seems to jump from one cup toanother or to change color. What actually happens is that the magician, byquick hand movements, hides one ball. While doing this he talks to the peopleand waves a brightly colored cloth with one hand. The people are too busywatching the cloth and listening to the magician’s words to notice that hisother hand is hiding the ball. 

Another favorite trick is to cutor burn something, and then make it appear again. What actually happens is thatthe magician makes the cut or burned object disappear by quickly hiding itwhile the people watch something else. Then he “magically” makes it appearagain by displaying another object that has not been cut or burned.

1．From the passage we know that the magician pretends to do thingswhich  .

A. are possibleB. are impossible

C. make people laugh  D. we can’t see

2．An important part of a magic trick is that   .

A. a bright colored cloth is used

B. it does not take too long to prepare

C. people don’t discover how it is done

D. the magician pretends to talk to thepeople watching

3．The people draw false conclusions because   .

A. they are not as clever as the magician

B. they are led to believe what themagician does

C. there is no other explanation

D. the magician has knowledge ofpsychologists

4．Psychology is an important part of magic tricks because   .

A. most magicians are psychologists

B. it tells you the magician doesn’t burnor cut anything

C. there is a special branch of psychologydevoted to magic

D. it is used to make people believe whatthey have seen

5．In this article the author intends to   .

A. make us not to believe what we have seenwith our own eyes

B. expose the tricks played by the magician

C. tell the magician not to fool otherpeople any more

D. explain how magic tricks are played

试题答案

答案：1B2C3B4D5D