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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 (非语言暗示) 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 (特质) detected in the study include a person's general age, income, political tendency, 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 students from the University of Kansas looked at pictures showing 208 different pairs of shoes worn by the study's participants. Participants 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 outgoing people. However, some of the more specific results are interesting. For example, “practical and functional” shoes were generally worn by more “friendly” people, while ankle boots were more closely connected 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 too much time worrying about what other people think of your appearance. There was even a political calculation in the mix with wearing “shabbier and less expensive” shoes.
The researchers noted that some people would choose shoe styles to mask their actual personality traits, but researchers pointed out that volunteers were also likely to be unaware that their footwear choices were revealing deep insights into their personalities.
【语篇导读】本文是是一篇议论文，讲述了人们可以仅仅通过看人的鞋就可以判断出他的性格，文中给出了几个具体事例，支持论点。
1. By looking at a person’s shoes, it’s possible for people to_____.
2. What can we know about the passage?（）
3. Taking exceptional care of new shoes shows that _____.
确定题目关键词，在文章中找到对应部分，回到题目逐一对照。A全面准确地了解这个人B对穿鞋人的性格形成意见C有关于他的社会地位能得到确切线索 都不符合题意，因此选B
事实细节题，直接信息理解题。根据“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.” 可知，勘萨斯大学的研究人员说，人们可以仅仅通过看人的鞋就可以判断百分之90的陌生人的性格 。所以选择B。
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抓取文章大意，综合事实。结合文章，选择C
主旨大意题。根据文章整体描述，The strangest of all may be that those who wore “uncomfortable looking” shoes tend to have “calm” personalities.。最奇怪的是，那些穿着“不舒服的”鞋子的人往往有“冷静”的个性。可以判断C
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确定题目关键词，在文章中找到对应部分，回到题目逐一对照。B处于放松状态C特别关注他们的外表D有太多鞋子可供选择 都不符合题意，因此选A
事实细节题，直接信息理解题。根据“And if you have several pairs of new shoes or take exceptional care of them, you may suffer from “attachment anxiety,” spending too much time worrying about what other people think of your appearance.” 可知， 如果你有几双新鞋或特别在意它们，你可能会有“依恋焦虑”，花太多时间担心别人怎么看你的外表。所以选择A
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