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  3. The process of perceiving other people is rarely translated into cold, objective terms. "She was 5 feet 8 inches tall, had fair

The process of perceiving other people is rarely translated into cold, objective terms. "She was 5 feet 8 inches tall, had fair

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问题     The process of perceiving other people is rarely translated into cold, objective terms. "She was 5 feet 8 inches tall, had fair hair, and wore a colored skirt." More often, we try to get inside the other person to pinpoint his or her attitudes, emotions, motivations, abilities, ideas and characters. Furthermore, we sometimes behave as if we can accomplish this difficult job very’ quickly—perhaps with a twosecond glance.
    We try to obtain information about others in many ways. Berger suggests several methods for reducing uncertainties about others: watching, without being noticed, a person interacting with others, particularly with others who are known to you, so you can compare the observed person’s behavior with the known other’s behavior; ob serving a person in a situation where social behavior is relatively un restrained or where a wide variety of behavioral responses are called for; deliberately structuring the physical or social environment so as to observe the person’s responses to specific stimuli; asking people who have had or have frequent contact with the person about him or her; and using various strategies in facetoface interaction to uncover information about another person—questions, selfdisclosures(自我表露), and so on. Getting to know someone is a neverending task, largely because people are constantly changing and the methods we use to obtain information are often imprecise. You may have known someone for ten years and still know very little about him. If we accept the idea that we won’t ever fully know another person, it enables us to deal more easily with those things that get in the way of accurate knowledge such as secrets and deceptions. It will also keep us from being too surprised by seemingly inconsistent behavior. Ironically(讽刺性地), those things that keep us from knowing an other person too well (e. g. secrets and deceptions) may be just as important to the development of a satisfying relationship as the things that enable us to obtain accurate knowledge about a person (e.g. disclosures and truthful statements).
What do we learn from the first paragraph?
选项 A、People are better described in cold, objective terms.
B、The difficulty of getting to know a person is usually underestimated.
C、One should not judge people by their appearances.
D、One is usually subjective when assessing other people’s personality.
答案B
解析 段落主旨题。作者在第一自然段中先提到，要了解一个人，我们会深入他的内心去了解他的态度、情感、动机等情感因素。接着，作者指出人们往往认为自己可以很快完成这项很难的任务——了解别人。言外之意是，事实上，了解别人是一件很难的事，人们却低估了它的难度。B)句很符合此意。A)句意思与原文相反，C)，D)两句，原文根本未提及。
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