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There’s much to see under the sea, but you need to remember that light behaves differently in water than in air. The objects appear closer to you than they exactly are. You might find yourself reaching out to touch something and completely missing it.

Objects under water will appear larger than they would on the surface, too. Be careful not to tell any stories about the big fish that got away. The fish might not be so big after all! It’s just because sometimes things can seem to be as much as about 33 percent bigger in water!

What’s more, in deeper water, colors just don’t seem as bright. In fact, it looks as if some colors are missing. Remember the color of an object results from the wavelengths (波长) of light that are reflected from its surface. And light is taken in as it moves down through the water.

Swimmers wear wet suits to keep warm underwater. Let’s take a bright red, yellow, and blue wet suit as an example. These colors are hard to miss on the surface of water. Watch carefully the changes in color as you descend in water. The red part now looks almost black because the red light wavelengths, the longest among these three colors, are missing. As you go down deeper, the same thing will happen to the yellow part and in the end to the blue part. Even at a place of about 6 to 9 meters underwater, you will look terrible, like a ghost (鬼怪)! And you have to wait for your return to the surface to enjoy the bright colors again.

Do you have a better understanding of the behavior of the light underwater? We need to be careful about the objects around us and explore (探索) their mysteries by ourselves.

1．You miss the object underwater when you want to touch it because ________.

A．your eyesight is quite poor

B．your are not quick enough

C．it is not as close as it seems

D．it disappears very quickly

2．The example of the wet suit is used to explain the change of ________ of an object underwater in paragraph 4.

A．the shop	B．the color
C．the position	D．the weight

3．The underlined word “descend” probably means ________ in paragraph.4?

A．move up

B．move on water

C．stop breathing for a while

D．go down

4．Which of the following would be the best title of the passage? ________

A．The Standard of Color Underwater

B．The Direction of Light Underwater

C．The Beauty of Color Underwater

D．The Behavior of Light Underwater