Question

Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people?

9 Yet a very young child―or even an animal, such as a pigeon, can learn to recognize faces. We all take this for granted.

10 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. 11 But if you were asked to describe a "nice person" you might begin to think about someone who was kind, consider ate friendly, warm, and so forth.

There are many words to describe how a person thinks, feels and acts. Gordon Airport, an American psychologist, found nearly 18,000 English words characterizing differences in people's behaviour. 12 Book worms ,conservatives, military types—people are de?scribed with such terms.

People have always tried to "type" each other. Actors in early Greek drama wore masks to show the audi?ence whether they played the villain's or the hero's role. In fact, the words "person" and "personality" come from the Latin persona, meaning "mask". Today? most televi?sion and movie actors do not wear masks. 13

A.    If you were asked to describe what a " nice face" looked like, you probably would have a difficult time do?ing so.

B.    But we can easily tell the "good guys" from the "bad guys" because the two types differ in appearance as well as in actions.

C.    We also tell people apart by how they behave.

D.    People have difficulty in describing the features of fingerprints.

E.    And many of us use this information as a basis for describing, or typing one's personality.

F.    Experts say that actors differ in their behavioral and physical characteristics in acting.

G.    Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the feature? that make one face different from another.

Answer 1

G 根據(jù)上文"Faces, like fingerprints are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people?，可知，人們的面容如指紋一樣是獨(dú)一無二的，即使優(yōu)秀的作家也很難描述出一個(gè)人的全部面部特征，從而與其他人區(qū)分開，故選G項(xiàng)。

C 根據(jù)下文''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.，，可推知，人們通過行為方式的不同而進(jìn)行區(qū)別彼此，故選c項(xiàng)。

A 根據(jù)上文''But describing someone's personality in words is somewhat easier than describing his face.，，并呼應(yīng)下文"But if you were asked to describe a ' nice person  you might begin to think about someone who was kind, consider?ate, friendly, warm, and so forth."可知，此處對(duì)品格與面容進(jìn)行類比，故選A項(xiàng)。

E 根據(jù)下文"Bookworms, conservatives, military types-people are described with such terms.'，可知，這些術(shù)語都是用來描述人們的個(gè)性或給人們劃分類別的，故選E項(xiàng)。

B 根據(jù)上文"Actors in early. Greek drama wore masks to show the audience whether they played the villain's or the hero's role.，，并結(jié)合"Today, most television and movie ac?tors do not wear masks."可推知，現(xiàn)在電視和電影演員不帶面具，但我們能容易地區(qū)分出"好人"和"壞人"，這是因?yàn)樗麄兊慕巧�在行為與相貌上不同，故選B項(xiàng)。