题目内容：

    Do you always struggle to understand others’ feelings? Perhaps you should listen to your heart.

According to a team of scientists at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK, people who are more aware of their own heartbeat are better at understanding others’ emotions.

Researchers have long suspected (怀疑) that this ability is important for understanding others’ thoughts and feelings.

To test this theory, the British team asked 72 volunteers to count their own heartbeats without feeling a pulse (脉搏). This aimed to see how aware they were of the feelings inside their own bodies.

Then, the volunteers were shown video clips of social interactions (互动), which tested their ability to read the minds of the characters.

During the clips, they were asked questions that required an understanding of the emotions of a certain character — for example, “What is Sandra feeling?” In addition, they were asked questions that did not involve any emotions, such as “What is Michael thinking?” They were also asked non-social questions, like “What was the weather like that evening?”

The results showed that those who had counted their heartbeats most accurately were better at answering questions relating to the characters’ emotions. However, there was no link between the ability to feel what’s going on inside your body and questions that did not involve any emotions.

Punit Shah, lead author of the study, used an example to explain this: If your colleague Michael is rude toward Sandra in public, your body processes (处理) this by increasing your heart rate. This may make you feel anxious and allow you to understand that Sandra is embarrassed.

“If you do not feel your heart rate increase, it may reduce your ability to understand that situation and respond (反应) appropriately,” Shah told The Telegraph.

Researchers believed their findings mean it could be possible to make people more empathetic by training them to listen to their hearts.

This also lends support to the argument that feelings are, at the very least, deeply rooted in physical sensations (感觉).

1.What does the new study find?

A.People are better at understanding others’ emotions than thoughts.

B.People with quicker heartbeats are more sensitive to others’ feelings.

C.The ability to feel your heartbeat is important for understanding others’ thoughts.

D.Your ability to feel others’ emotions is related to your ability to feel your own heartbeat.

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE about the new study according to the article?

A.The volunteers were asked to count their heartbeats while watching video clips.

B.Researchers designed emotional, non-emotional and non-social questions.

C.The volunteers were required to describe each other’s thoughts and feelings.

D.Researchers trained the volunteers to listen to their hearts and observed them.

3.The underlined word “empathetic” in the second-to-last paragraph probably means ______.

A.willing to accept ideas that are different from your own

B.not influenced in any way by other people or things

C.being able to understand others’ feelings

D.willing to help those in trouble

4.What can be concluded from the last four paragraphs?

A.We react to a situation more slowly when our heart rates increase.

B.Physical sensations in our bodies are believed to cause emotional changes.

C.Our ability to feel emotions is part of us and can’t be changed.

D.How we feel has nothing to do with the state of our bodies.