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Today we ’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. In fact, one-third to one-half of Americans are
Today we ’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. In fact, one-third to one-half of Americans are
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Today we ’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. In fact, one-third to one-half of Americans are introverts. If you’re not an introvert yourself, you are surely raising, managing, married to, or coupled with one.
If these statistics surprise you, that’ s probably because so many people pretend to be extroverts. Some fool even themselves, until some life event jolts them into taking stock of their true natures. You have only to raise this subject with your friends and acquaintances to find that the most unlikely people consider themselves introverts.
It makes sense that so many introverts hide even from themselves. We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal. The archetypal extrovert works well in teams and socializes in groups. We like to think that we value individuality, but all too often we admire one type of individual—the kind who’s comfortable "putting himself out there". Sure, we allow technologically gifted loners who launch companies in garages to have any personality they please, but they are the exceptions, not the rule, and our tolerance extends mainly to those who get fabulously wealthy or hold the promise of doing so.
Introversion—along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness—is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a
pathology
. Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.
Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.
The Extrovert Ideal has been documented in many studies, though this research has never been grouped under a single name. Talk active people, for example, are rated as smarter, better-looking, more interesting, and more desirable as friends. We rank fast talkers as more competent and likable than slow ones. Even the word introvert is stigmatized—one informal study, by psychologist Laurie Helgoe, found that introverts described their own physical appearance in vivid language, but when asked to describe generic introverts they drew a bland and distasteful picture.
But we make a grave mistake to embrace the Extrovert Ideal so unthinkingly. Some of our greatest ideas, art, and inventions came from quiet and cerebral people who knew how to tune in to their inner worlds and the treasures to be found there.
We can learn from the first two paragraphs that_____.
选项
A、most people in America are introvert
B、American people prefer introvert to extrovert
C、your family members or friends may pretend to be extrovert
D、in American society, only the extrovert could succeed
答案
C
解析
由题干关键词定位到文章第一、二段。根据第一段第二句“有1/3至1/2的美国 人都是内向的人”可知,A项“大多数美国人都内向”不符合原文。B项“比起外向,美国人更 喜欢内向”,与第一段表述不符。通过第二段首句“如果这个数据让你感到惊讶,那很可能 是因为很多人装成了外向的人”和末句“你只需要跟你的朋友聊下这个话题,你就会发现 最不可能内向的人都认为自己是内向的”可知,C项“你的家人或朋友可能会伪装成外向的 人”符合题意。D项“在美国社会,只有外向的人才能成功”在前两段中并未提及。故选C。
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