小编寄语：英语四级六级考试，阅读是不可或缺的一大部分，生词多，理解难，时间少，是不少考生抱怨的问题。要想在考场上做好阅读理解，必须在平常多阅读，掌握新词汇，提高阅读速度。而沪江小编就为大家准备了阅读材料系列，供大家练习。
我们的这个阅读系列旨在为大家提供一些阅读材料，不一定跟四六级考试的难度、篇幅、内容完全一样。对于很多童鞋纠结这是四级还是六级范围的阅读，其实没有必要。如果大家觉得比较简单，就当作泛读材料了解了解，认识几个新单词或新表达方式也不错。如果大家觉得这些材料理解上有难度，不妨当做挑战自己的拔高训练，希望大家都有进步^^
【今日推荐阅读】
Girls really do prefer pink–and not just because it is pretty. Scientists have shown that females are drawn to pinks and reds and men to blues and greens – and they believe the explanation lies our hunter-gatherer past.
As the gatherers of the operation, women's brains became fine-tuned to the purples and reds of ripe fruits and berries. The men, meanwhile, developed a preference for the clear blue skies that signaled good weather for hunting.
The theory comes from Chinese scientists who asked more than 350 students to study 11 colors for three minutes.
This revealed the women to favor pink, purple and white and the men to like blue and green, the journal Personality and Individual Differences reports. The experiment also revealed introverted men to be fond of yellow and neurotic women to be keen on grey.
Orange went down well with women with a sunny disposition, while brown was out of favor with both sexes.
The Zhejiang University researchers said: "This asserts that a woman's brain is more specialised for gathering-related tasks, such as the identification of ripe fruit or edible red leaves embedded in green foliage."
The ability to pick up on reds and pinks may also have helped in choosing a suitable mate, with rosy cheeks denoting good health and a red tinge the blush of attraction.
【内容简介】
文章首先阐述女生更爱粉色，而男生则更喜欢蓝色或绿色这一事实。
接着文章解释了这一发现是如何得来的，接着文章介绍了实验的其他结果，并分析男女对颜色的偏好有何意义。
【词汇短语讲解】
①draw to 逼近，接近
②fine-tuned 微调的，恰到好处的
③preference for 对……的偏爱
④go down well with sb. 为某人所接受，受某人欢迎 out of favor with sb. 失宠于某人
⑤pick up on 与……熟悉起来，了解，领悟
⑥denote v. 表示，象征 denote多指用符号等表示，而indicate则是指用词语或标记表达比较明确的意义。
【快速阅读支招】
一般的文章开篇或每段开头都会交代一下该篇或该段要讲的大概内容，所以时间较紧时可先找到开篇句了解文章大致要讲述的内容。
考试时遇到跟问题相关的句子或信息点可用铅笔划下来做个记号，然后跟问题对比，找出正确答案。