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【題目】Researchers at the University of Kansas say that people can accurately judge 90 percent of a stranger’s personality simply by looking at the person’s shoes.

“Shoes convey a thin but useful piece of information about their wearers,” the authors wrote in the new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality. “Shoes serve a practical purpose, and also serve as nonverbal(非語言的) indications with symbolic messages. People tend to pay attention to the shoes they and others wear.”

Medical Daily notes that the details detected in the study include a person’s general age, sex, income, political affiliation(派別), and other personality characteristics, including someone’s emotional stability.

Lead researcher Omri Gillath said the judgments were based on the style, cost, color, and condition of someone’s shoes. In the study, 63 University of Kansas students looked at pictures showing 208 different pairs of shoes worn by the study’s participants. Volunteers in the study were photographed in their most commonly worn shoes, and then filled out a personality questionnaire.

So, some of the results were expected: People with higher incomes most commonly wore expensive shoes, and flashier footwear was typically worn by extroverts(外向者).

However, some of the more specific results are interesting. For example, “practical and functional” shoes were generally worn by more “agreeable” people, while ankle boots went more closely with “aggressive” personalities.

The strangers of all may be that those who wore “uncomfortable looking” shoes tend to have “calm” personalities.

And if you have several pairs of new shoes or take exceptional care of them, you may suffer from “attachment anxiety”, spending a large amount of time worrying about what other people think of your appearance.

There was even a political calculation in the mix with more liberal types wearing “shabbier and less expensive” shoes.

The researchers noted that some people will choose shoe styles to mask their actual personality characteristics, but researchers noted that volunteers were also likely to be unaware that their footwear choices were showing deep awareness into their personalities.

【1】According to Omri Gillath, a stranger’s personality can be judged by ___.

A. the age and sex of the person

B. the personality questionnaire by the person

C. the emotional stability of the person

D. the shoes the person wearst

【2】We can infer from Paragraph 2 that ___.

A. a practical purpose is to wear shoes

B. people want to buy new shoes they pay attention to

C. shoes are vital to their wearers

D. the Journal of Research in Personality is a magazine

【3】The underlined word “agreeable” is closest in meaning to __.

A. gentle B. weak C. generous D. considerate

【4】 Which might be the best title for the passage?

A. Good Shoes, Good Character

B. Bad Shoes, Bad Personality

C. Shoes and Their Wearers’ Personality

D. Shoes Shape A Person’s Character

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】D

【3】A

【4】C

【解析】

試題分析:這篇文章主要介紹了一項最新的調(diào)查研究成果。根據(jù)該調(diào)查顯示人們可以根據(jù)對方所穿的鞋子而了解對方的性格等個人信息。

【1】D 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段的Researchers at the University of Kansas say that people can accurately judge 90 percent of a stranger’s personality simply by looking at the person’s shoes.可知選擇D，表示通過所穿的鞋子可以看出一個人的性格。

【2】D 推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段的the authors wrote in the new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality.中的單詞published可以推斷出這是一本雜志，故選擇D。選項A表述錯誤。而選項B、C并未提及。

【3】A 詞義辨析題。根據(jù)第六段中的“practical and functional” shoes were generally worn by more “agreeable” people, while ankle boots went more closely with “aggressive” personalities. 單詞while的用法可知，這里是兩種對立的情況，既然后一種人的性格是aggressive，那么前一種人應(yīng)該就是它的反義，故選擇A，指溫和的。

【4】C 主旨大意題。根據(jù)對文章第一段的閱讀以及對全篇的理解可知，這篇文章主要講的是個人所穿的鞋子能夠反應(yīng)出這個人的性格等信息，故選擇C。