In a study released in mid­December, scientists found that the color of your coffee mug can change the way your coffee tastes, reported The Washington Post. And it is not just the color of the food that matters. Specifically, the white mug was associated with a more “intense” (or bitter) tasting cup of coffee, and the clear glass mug was not. The blue mug, meanwhile, was “kind of an intermediate (中等的)”， Charles Spence, head of the research laboratory at Oxford University, told the newspaper.

　　The opposite was true for perceived sweetness — those who took part tasted less sweetness when drinking from the white mug than they did when drinking from both the blue and clear glass mugs.

　　It?s also possible that certain colors are associated with certain experiences. In the case of coffee, the researchers believe the color brown might be something people associate with bitterness. “The white mug may have affected the perceived brownness of the coffee and this, in turn, may have affected the perceived intensity (and sweetness) of the coffee，” the researchers wrote.

　　9．The passage mainly discusses ________.

　　A．tasting with eyesB．ideas about flavor

　　C．wine and coffee

　　D．colors and likes

　　解析：选A　主旨大意题。文章第一段就点明“flavor depends on parts of the brain that involve not only taste, smell and touch, but vision”这一主题，随后围绕这一主题展开叙述。故答案选A。

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