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  3. Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people? Even a skilled writer p

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

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问题     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 Allports, 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 (坏人) 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 in actions.
The author is most probably a ______.
选项 A、behaviorist
B、psychologist
C、writer
D、sociologist
答案B
解析 推理判断题。根据本文的主题“如何识别不同的人”，以及文中的诸多与心理学有关的关键词如personality，think，act，feel，nice person，good guys，bad guys等，可推断本文作者最可能是选项B(心理学家)。本题最具干扰性的是选项A(行为主义者)，虽然第2段第1句有提到behave，但本文的重点不是讨论人们具体的行为，而是讨论抽象的个性，因此选项A不对。本文为一篇较具科普性的文章，应该是有一定专业知识的人写的，而不是普通作家写的，因此选项C不对。选项D(社会学家)研究的是社会问题。
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