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As the proverb goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.A paper published two years ago in Nature found a connection between people's sense of well-being and the scenicness (美景) of where they lived. The paper's authors measured scenicness by conducting a survey among volunteers.
The connection, the paper's authors found, held true whether a neighborhood was urban or rural.Nor did levels of air pollution have any influence on it. The authors also discovered that differences in volunteers' health were better explained by the scenicness of where they lived than by the amount of green space around them.
The team behind that Nature paper have nevertheless decided to have a go. They have adapted a computer program to recognize beautiful landscapes, whether natural or artificial, using the criteria that a human beholder would employ. The pro gram's task was to work out, by analyzing each photograph's features in the context of its Scenic-or-Not ratings, what it is that makes a landscape scenic.
Most of the results are not surprising. Lakes and horizons scored well. So did valleys and snowy mountains. In artificial landscapes, castles, churches and cottages were seen as scenic.The analysis did, however, confirm one important finding from the team's previous study, which is also a message for town planners. Green spaces alone are not scenic. To be so they need to involve contours(高低起伏的轮廓)and trees.
A. Determining what scenicness is, though, has always been frustrating for scientists.
B. Natural landscapes are rated as scenicness as opposed to artificial landscapes.
C. Therefore, less grass and more trees and bushes would be welcome.
D. It bore no relation to volunteers' social and economic status.
E. So people have a deep affection for where they live.
F. Hospitals, garages and motels were not so much
G. But surroundings matter.
答案:【1】G【2】D【3】A【4】F【5】C