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"Shoes convey thin but useful information about their wearers," the authors wrote in a new study. " Shoes serve as a practical pur?pose,and also serve as nonverbal cues （暗示） with symbolic messa?ges. People tend to pay attention to the shoes they and others wear."

Medical Daily notes that the number of detailed personality traits (特點) found includes a person's general age,gender,income and other personality traits like one's emotional stability.

Lead researcher Omri Gillath said the judgements were based on the style,cost,colour and condition of someone's shoes. In the study,63 University of Kan?sas students looked at pictures showing 208 different pairs of shoes worn by the study's participants. Volunteers in the study were photographed in their most com?monly worn shoes? and then filled out a personality questionnaire.

Some of the results were expected：people with higher incomes most commonly wore expensive shoes,and flashy (閃光的) shoes were typically worn by outgoing people.

However,some results are puzzling. For example, " practical" shoes were generally worn by more "agreeable" people,while ankle boots were more closely connected with "aggressive" personalities. The strangest of all may be that those who wore "uncomfortablelooking" shoes tend to have "calm" personalities.

And if you have several pairs of new shoes or take too much care of them,you may suffer from "attachment anxiety", spending a large amount of time worrying about what other people think of your appearance.

The researchers noted that some people will choose shoe styles to mask their actual personality.

1. Researchers were surprised at the result that       .

   A. the rich wore expensive shoes

   B. outgoing people like wearing shining shoes

   C. "uncomfortableloo king" shoes suggested calmness

   D. some people tried to hide their real personality

2. Those who        may suffer from "attachment anxiety".

   A. are frightened to meet people

   B. are anxious about being misunderstood

   C. pay much attention to others' appearances

   D. worry about others' opinions about their looks

3. It can be inferred from the text that       .

   A. all people's personality can be judged by their shoes

   B. all the results agreed with what researchers had expected

   C. you may make a mistake when you judge a person by shoes

   D. people with ankle boots are less aggressive

4. What kind of shoes does a person most probably wear if he is pleasant and kind to others?

   A. Ankle boots.

   B. Several pairs of new shoes.

   C. "Uncomfortablelooking" shoes.

   D. "Practical" shoes.

Answer 1

研究者發(fā)現(xiàn)，人們所穿的鞋子能反映人們不同的個性。

I.      C細節(jié)理解題。由文章第四、五、七段可知答案。

2. D細節(jié)理解題。由文章倒數(shù)第二段"…spending a large amount of time worrying about what other people think of your appearance."可知D項正確。

3. C推理判斷題。文章最后一段提到，有人會通過鞋子的樣式來掩飾自己的個性，這說明如果僅從鞋子判斷一個人有時會出錯，并不一定準確。

4. D細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第五段的"For example, 'practical' shoes were generally worn by more ' agreeable' people --"可知答案。

agreeable和藹可親的。因此選   D.