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Passage Four
Questions 66 to 70 are based on the following passage.
Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people. Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different from another. Yet a very young child-or even an animal, such as a pigeon-can learn to recognize faces, we all take this ability for granted.
We also tell people apart by how they behave. When we talk about someone’s personality, we mean the ways in which he or she acts, speaks thinks and feels that make that individual different from others.
Like the human face, human personality is very complex. But describing someone’s personality in words is somewhat easier than describing his face. If you were asked to describe what a “nice face” looked like, you probably would have a difficult time doing so. But if you were asked to describe a “nice person”, you might begin to think about someone who was kind considerate, friendly, warm, and so forth.
There are many words to describe how a person thinks, feels and acts. Gordon Allport, an American psychologist, found nearly 18,000 English words characterizing differences in people’s behavior. And many of us use this information as a basis for describing, or typing, his personality. Bookworms, conservatives, military types-people are described with such terms.
People have always tried to “type” each other. Actors in early Greek drama wore masks to show the audience whether they played the villain’s (壞人) or the hero’s role. In fact, the words “person” and “personality” come from the Latin persona, meaning “mask”. Today, most television and movie actors do not wear masks. But we can easily tell the “good guys” from the “bad guys” because the two types differ in appearance as well as inactions.
66. By using the example of finger prints, the author tells us that ________.
A) people can learn to recognize faces
B) people have different personalities
C) people have difficulty in describing the features of finger prints
D) people differ from each other in facial features（D）
67. According to this passage, some animals have the gift of ________.
A) telling people apart by how they behave
B) typing each other
C) telling good people from had people
D) recognizing human faces（D）
68. Who most probably knows best how to describe people’s personality?
A) The ancient Greek audience
B) The movie actors
C) Psychologists
D) The modern TV audience（C）
69. According to the passage, it is possible for us tell one type of person from another because ________.
A) people differ in their behavioral and physical characteristics
B) human fingerprints provide unique information
C) people’s behavior can be easily described in words
D) human faces have complex features（A）
70. Which of the following is the major point of the passage?
A) Why it is necessary to identify people’s personality
B) Why it is possible to describe people
C) How to get to know people
D) How best to recognize people（B）
| 重點(diǎn)單詞 | 查看全部解釋 | |||
| understand | [.ʌndə'stænd] |
想一想再看 |
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| dynamite | ['dainəmait] |
想一想再看 n. 炸藥，（用）炸藥（爆破）， 引起轟動(dòng)的人（或物） |
聯(lián)想記憶 | |
| approximately | [ə'prɔksimitli] |
想一想再看 adv. 近似地，大約 |
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| identify | [ai'dentifai] |
想一想再看 vt. 識(shí)別，認(rèn)明，鑒定 |
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| stare | [steə(r)] |
想一想再看 v. 凝視，盯著看 |
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| communicate | [kə'mju:nikeit] |
想一想再看 v. 交流，傳達(dá)，溝通 |
聯(lián)想記憶 | |
| promoter | [prə'məutə] |
想一想再看 n. 促進(jìn)者，發(fā)起人，催化劑，促進(jìn)劑，啟動(dòng)區(qū) |
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| overcome | [.əuvə'kʌm] |
想一想再看 vt. 戰(zhàn)勝，克服，(感情等)壓倒，使受不了 |
聯(lián)想記憶 | |
| elimination | [i.limi'neiʃən] |
想一想再看 n. 除去，消除 |
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| approval | [ə'pru:vəl] |
想一想再看 n. 批準(zhǔn)，認(rèn)可，同意，贊同 |
聯(lián)想記憶 |
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