2022届高三英语培优外刊阅读学案：年度颜色话题

高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 外刊精选｜2020年度色出炉：为什么是“经典蓝”？ 12月4日，美国色彩咨询公司彩通公布了其预测的2020年年度色彩——经典蓝（Classic Blue）。彩通称，现今焦虑占据了大多数人的生活，人们亟需一个没有攻击性、容易引发共鸣的颜色。那么经典蓝会缓解人们的焦虑吗？一种颜色为何能引领一年？ Pantone Declares Another Year of Blue ① The people at Pantone know that times are hard. ② “Many of us,” the color company said in a recent presentation, feel anxious, “completely overloaded and perpetually stressed.” The antidote, according to Pantone’s swatch psychologists? Blue. Specifically: Classic Blue. ③ For the 21st consecutive year, Pantone has named a color of the year, a trend-forecasting stunt as closely watched by the news media as it is by the industries — marketing, fashion, design — that actually traffic in visual trends. ④ Classic Blue is the color of blueberries, a Pepsi can and the sky when it’s “that beautiful color at the end of the day,” said Leatrice Eiseman, the executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, which researches and advises companies on human responses to color. In choosing Classic Blue, the organization said it first examined what was going on in the world. ⑤ “We weren’t looking at this as a political message,” said Laurie Pressman, the vice president of the Pantone Color Institute. Rather, Pantone has pinned the world’s anxiety and stress on a more common enemy: technology. ⑥ “It has sped things up to the point where we can’t necessarily handle all that’s coming in,” Ms. Eiseman said. Classic Blue “provides a refuge,” according to Pantone, fulfilling a “desire for a dependable, stable foundation.” Classic Blue is “nonaggressive,” “easily relatable” and “honest.” 【词汇过关】 请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。 1.Pantone ['pæntəʊn] n. __________________________ 2.declare [dɪˈkleə] vt.__________________________ 3.overloaded [ˌəʊvəˈləʊdɪd] adj. __________________________ 4.perpetually [pəˈpetʃuəli] adv. _________________________ 5.stressed [strest] adj. _________________________ 6.antidote [ˈæntidəʊt] n. _________________________ 7.swatch [swɒtʃ] n