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Text 2 An article in Scientific America

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问题 Text 2 An article in Scientific America has pointed out that empirical research says that,actually,you think you’re more beautiful than you are.We have a deepseated need to feel good about ourselves and we naturally employ a number of selfenhancing strategies to research into what they call the“above average effect”,or“illusory superiority”,and shown that,for example,70%of us rate ourselves as above average in leadership,93%in driving and 85%at getting on well with others—all obviously statistical impossibilities.We rose tint our memories and put ourselves into selfaffirming situations.We become defensive when criticized,and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our own esteem,we stalk around thinking we’re hot stuff.Psychologist and behavioral scientist Nicholas Epley oversaw a key studying into selfenhancement and attractiveness.Rather that have people simply rate their beauty compress with others,he asked them to identify an original photograph of themselves’from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appear more and less attractive.Visual recognition,reads the study,is“an automatic psychological process occurring rapidly and intuitively with little or no apparent conscious deliberation”.If the subjects quickly chose a falsely flattering image—which must did—they genuinely believed it was really how they looked.Epley found no significant gender difference in responses.Nor was there any evidence that,those who selfenhance the must（that is,the participants who thought the most positively doctored picture were real）were doing so to make up for profound insecurities.In fact those who thought that the images higher up the attractiveness scale were real directly corresponded with those who showed other makers for having higher selfesteem.“I don't think the findings that we having have are any evidence of personal delusion”,says Epley.“It's a reflection simply of people generally thinking well of themselves’.If you are depressed,you won't be selfenhancing.Knowing the results of Epley's study,it makes sense that why people heat photographs of themselves viscerally—on one level,they don't even recognize the person in the picture as themselves.Facebook therefore,is a selfenhancer's paradise,where people can share only the most flattering photos,the cream of their wit,style,beauty,intellect and lifestyles.“It's not that people's profiles are dishonest”,says Catalina Toma of Wiscon—Madison university,”but they portray an idealized version of themselves.It can be inferred that Facebook is selfenhancer's paradise because people can_____A.present their dishonest profilesB.define their traditional life stylesC.share their intellectual pursuitsD.withhold their unflattering sides
选项 A.present their dishonest profiles
B.define their traditional life styles
C.share their intellectual pursuits
D.withhold their unflattering sides
答案 D
解析 推理题【命题思路】这是一道原因推理题，考生在回文定位之后可以推理出正确答案。【直击答案】根据题干定位到最后一段第二句话，这句话中where引导的定语从句对这个paradise进行解释，而最后一句话引用专家的话进一步进行说明，指出“they portray an idealized version of themselves”，D项“掩盖了他们不吸引人的一面”是原文信息的正话反说，因此为正确答案。【干扰排除】第五段最一句话提到“这并不代表他们的档案不真实（dishonest）”，因而A项“展示了他们不真实的一面”与原文信息相反，故排除。第五段第二句话提到，在Facebook上他们可以展示出自己在机智、风格、美貌、智力和生活方式的精华面，因而B项“定义了他们传统的生活方式”在文中并未提及，C项“分享他们的智力追求”只是一个方面，该选项以偏概全，故排除。
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