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第二部分：阅读判断(第16~22题，每题1分，共7分) 　　下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断;如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A;如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B;如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择C。 　　In Sports, Red is the Winning Color 　　When opponents of a game are equally matched, the team dressed in red is more likely to win, according to a new study. 　　British anthropologists Russell Hill and Robert Barton of the University of Durham reached that conclusion by studying the outcomes of one-on-one boxing, tae kwon do, Greco-Roman-wresting, and freestyle-wrestling matches at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. 　　In each event Olympic staff randomly assigned red or blue clothing or body protection to competitors. When otherwise equally matched with their opponent in fitness and skill, athletes wearing red were more likely to win the bout. 　　Where there was a large point difference—presumably because one contestant was far superior to the other—color had no effect on the outcome, Barton said. Where there was a small point difference, the effect of color was sufficient to tip the balance. 　　In equally matched bouts, the preponderance of red wins was great enough that it could not be attributed to chance, the anthropologists say. Hill and Barton found similar results in a review of the colors worn at the Euro 2004 international soccer tournament. Their report will be published in tomorrows issue of the journal Nature. 　　Joanna Setchell, a primate researcher at the University of Cambridge in England, has found similar results in nature. Her work with the large African monkeys known as mandrills shows that red coloration gives males an advantage when it comes to mating. 　　The finding that red also has an advantage in human sporting events does not surprise her, addding that the idea of the study is very clever. 　　Hill and Barton got the idea for their study out of a mutual interest in the evolution of sexual signals in primates—red seems to be the color, across species, that signals male dominance and testosterone levels, Barton said. 　　F