Question

【題目】閱讀理解。

“A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smart phone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website” is the definition of “selfie” in the Oxford English Dictionary. In fact, it wasn't even in the dictionary until August of 2013. It earned its place there because people are now so obsessed with (對……癡迷) selfies — we take them when we try on a new hat, play with our pets or when we meet a friend whom we haven't seen in a while.

But is there any scientific explanation for this obsession? Well, you should probably ask James Kilner, a neuroscientist (神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)科學(xué)家) at University College London.

Through our lifetime we become experts at recognizing and interpreting other people's faces and facial expressions. In contrast, according to Kilner, we have a very poor understanding of our own faces since we have little experience of looking at them — we just feel them most of the time.

This has been proved in previous studies, according to the BBC.

Kilner found that most people chose the more attractive picture. This suggests that we tend to think of ourselves as betterlooking than we actually are. To further test how we actually perceive our own faces, Kilner carried out another study. He showed people different versions of their own portrait — the original, one that had been edited to look less attractive and one that was made more attractive — and asked them to pick the version which they hought looked most like them. They chose the more attractive version.

But what does it say about selfies? Well, isn't that obvious? Selfies give us the power to create a photograph — by taking it from various angles, with different poses, using filters (濾色鏡) and so on — that better matches our expectations with our actual faces.

“You suddenly have control in a way that you don't have in nonvirtual (非虛擬的) interactions，” Kilner told the Canadabased CTV News. Selfies allow you “to keep taking pictures until you manage to take one you're happy with”， he explained.

【1】What is the passage mainly about?

A．The definition and fun of taking selfies.

B．A study of why people love taking selfies.

C．How taking selfies influences people's daily lives.

D．How to interpret people's facial expressions in their selfies.

【2】The underlined word “perceive” in Paragraph 5 can be replaced by “________”．

A．interpret B．beautify

C．choose D．explain

【3】According to Kilner, people like taking selfies probably because they think ________.

A．it is a good chance to learn more about their actual faces

B．it is a way to respond to others' facial expressions correctly

C．it enables them to interact with their friends in social media

D．it allows them to satisfy their expectations with their appearances

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】D

【解析】

試題解析：

【1】主旨大意題。通讀全文可知，文章從不同角度分析了人們喜歡自拍的原因。故B項正確。

【2】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)語境可知，大多數(shù)人選擇的是更有魅力的照片，這表明我們都喜歡把自己想象得比實際更漂亮一些。為了進一步測試我們實際上如何“認知”自己的臉部，Kilner又進行了另一項研究，即把不同的照片進行編輯，一張忠實于本人，一張更具魅力，他們往往會選擇后者。此處perceive與下文中的“thought”相照應(yīng)，意為“理解，認知”。故A項正確。

【3】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后兩段中的“that better matches our expectations with our actual faces”和“Selfies allow you ‘to keep taking pictures until you manage to take one you're happy with’”可知，自拍能夠讓我們實際的容貌與期望的一致，即滿足對于自我容貌的期待。故D項正確。