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Researchers at the University of Kansas say that people can accurately judge 90 percent of a stranger's personality simply by looking at the person's shoes.
“Shoes convey a thin but useful slice of information about their wearers,” the authors wrote in the new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality. “Shoes serve a practical purpose, and also serve as nonverbal cues with symbolic messages. People tend to pay attention to the shoes they and others wear.”
Medical Daily notes that the number of detailed personality traits detected in the study include a person?s general age, their gender, income, political affiliation, and other personality traits, including someone's emotional stability.
Lead researcher Omri Gillath said the judgments were based on the style, cost, color and condition of someone?s shoes. In the study, 63 University of Kansas 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 commonly worn shoes, and then filled out a personality questionnaire. So, what do your shoes say about your personality?
Some of the results were expected: People with higher incomes most commonly wore expensive shoes, and flashier footwear was typically worn by extroverts（外向的人）.
However, some of the more specific results are intriguing. For example, “practical and functional” shoes were generally worn by more “agreeable” people, while ankle boots were more closely aligned with “aggressive” personalities.
The strangest of all may be that those who wore “uncomfortable looking” shoes tend to have “calm” personalities.
And if you have several pairs of new shoes or take exceptional care of them, you may suffer from “attachment anxiety,” spending an inordinate amount of time worrying about what other people think of your appearance.
There was even a political calculation in the mix with more liberal types wearing “shabbier and less expensive” shoes.
The researchers noted that some people will choose shoe styles to mask their actual personality traits, but researchers noted that volunteers were also likely to be unaware that their footwear choices were revealing deep insights into their personalities. 56. We learn from the text that shoes one wears may . A. convey useful information including one?s emotional stability B. show thick and useful information about one?s personality C. only convey some information about one?s personality D. be used to judge others? personality accurately
57. Which of the following is NOT true according to the text? A. People wearing ”uncomfortable looking” shoes tend to be calm.
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B. People wear practical and functional shoes may be hard to deal with. C. Ankle boots are closely aligned with “aggressive” personalities. D. People with high incomes probably wear expensive shoes.
58. What does the underlined words “attachment anxiety” probably mean? A. Attached happiness to one?s personality. B. Feeling always worried about everything. C. Wasting an inordinate amount of time.
D. Often feeling worried about his or her appearance. 59. What can be the best title for this article? A. Shoes One Wears B. Shoes and Information C. Shoes and One?s Personality D. Judging One?s Personality
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What do you do when you need to look something up? Go to the library? Open an encyclopedia? Click onto the Internet? These days, most people go straight to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. But how reliable is it?
There?s no denying the popularity and usefulness of Wikipedia. It attracts as many as 78 million visitors every month, and the site is available in more than 270 different languages. It?s one of the most comprehensive resources available，which includes almost all details，facts and information that may be concerned. It?s got much more information than an ordinary encyclopedia. The site is updated on a daily basis by thousands of people around the world. Anyone with an Internet connection can log on and edit the contents or add a new page. And you don?t need any formal training. Of course, there are some controls. Wikipedia has a team of more than 1，500 administrators who check for false information. And main targets for harmful comments(such as politicians) are off-limits to public editing. But with more than l6 million articles to keep an eye on，it isn?t easy．So，while Wikipedia benefits from being constantly updated with information from all over the world, it's also open to “vandals”(破坏他人财产者).
Some of the damage is easy to notice. One person drew devil horns and a moustache on Microsoft chairman Bill Gate?s photo, while another edited Greek philosopher Plato?s biography to say he was a “Hawaiian weather man who is widely believed to have been a student of ?Barney the purple Dinosaur? and to have been deeply influenced by his dog，Cutie.”
But other things are harder to spot. The most common form of vandalism involves adding tiny items of false information into the biography of a famous person. Unbelievably, some of this misinformation has appeared in newspapers，with The Daily Mail，The Guardian and The Independent all having fallen victim to the dirty ticks. For example，in an article about British comedian Sir Norman Wisdom, one newspaper claimed that he co-wrote Dame Vera Lynn?s wartime hit “There?ll be Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover”. He did no such thing. And in another article, it was reported that TV Theme tune composer Ronnie Hazlehurst had written the S Club 7 hit “Reach” Once again, not true. So，if you?re going to use any information from Wikipedia, make sure you double-check it first.
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60. What?s the writer?s attitude to Wikipedia? A. critical B. doubtful C. objective D. negative
61. Which of the following would the author of the passage most probably agree with?
A. Though popular and widely used，Wikipedia provides little information that is reliable. B. Before using the information from Wikipedia，one should first check it again and again. C. It is understandable that some people add false information to Wikipedia. D. Updated on a daily basis, any information from Wikipedia is reliable 62. We can learn from the passage that . A. Because of its popularity, 78 million people from 270 counties visit Wikipedia monthly B. Updated by people around the world，the site is more likely to be damaged by hackers C. Anyone who has access to the internet can edit any contents of Wikipedia as they like D. The primary job of the administrators is to make sure true information is conveyed 63. Paragraph 5 is mainly to tell us . A. It is really difficult to find out tiny items of false information B. No matter how famous the papers are，they can also be cheated C. You can make mistakes while searching for information
D. It was Sir Norman Wisdom who wrote the S Club 7kit “Reach”
C
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Homeownership has let us down. For generations, Americans believed that owning a home was undoubtedly good. Our political leaders
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hammered home the point. Franklin Roosevelt held that a country of homeowners was “unconquerable.” Homeownership could even save babies, save children, save families and save America. A house with a lawn and a fence wasn?t just a nice place to live in or a risk-free investment; it was a way to shape a nation. No wonder leaders of all political types wanted to spend more than $100 billion a year on subsidies(补助) and tax breaks to encourage people to buy.
But the dark side of homeownership is now all too apparent: Indeed, easy lending stimulated（刺激）by the cult of homeownership may have triggered(引起) the financial crisis. Housing remains a drag on the economy. Existing-home sales in April dropped 27% from the previous month, worsening fears of a double-dip. And all that is just the obvious tale of a housing bubble and what happened when it popped. The real story is deeper and darker still. For the better part of a century, politics, industry and culture lined up to create a fetish of the idea of buying a house. Homeownership has done plenty of good over the decades; it has provided stability to tens of millions of families. Yet by idealizing the act of buying a home, we have ignored the downsides. In the bubble years, lending standards slipped dramatically, allowing many Americans to put far too much of their income into paying for their housing. And we ignored longer-term phenomena too. Homeownership contributed to the hollowing out of cities and kept renters out of the best neighborhoods. It fed America?s overuse of energy and oil. It made it more difficult for those who had lost a job to find another. Perhaps worst of all, it helped us become casually self-deceiving: By telling ourselves that homeownership was a pathway to wealth and stable communities and better test scores, we avoided dealing with these frightening issues head-on.
Now, as the U.S. recovers from the biggest housing bust（破产）since the Great Depression, it is time to rethink how realistic our expectations of homeownership are—and how much money we want to spend chasing them. Many argue that homeownership should not be a goal pursued at all costs.
67. Political leaders wanted to spend money encouraging people to buy houses because______.
A. owning a home was undoubtedly good B. homeownership could shape a country C. houses could save families and America D. homeownership was unconquerable
68. The underlined sentence in Para. 2 means ______.
A. homeownership has quite a lot of bad effects
B. there might be another housing breakdown in the U.S. C. the existing-home sales will keep decreasing in the U.S. D. the result of homeownership is much worse than it appears
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