2014年考研英语二真题原文及答案完整版

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　　An article inScientific America has pointed out that empirical research says that, actually,you think you’re more beautiful than you are. We have a deep-seated need tofeel good about ourselves and we naturally employ a number of self-enhancingstrategies to research into what the call the “above average effect”, or“illusory superiority”, and shown that, for example, 70% of us rate ourselvesas above average in leadership, 93% in driving and 85% at getting on well withothers—all obviously statistical impossibilities.

　　We rose tint ourmemories and put ourselves into self-affirming situations. We become defensivewhen criticized, and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our ownesteem, we stalk around thinking we’re hot stuff.

　　Psychologist andbehavioral scientist Nicholas Epley oversaw a key studying intoself-enhancement and attractiveness. Rather that have people simply rate theirbeauty compress with others, he asked them to identify an original photograghof themselves’ from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appearmore and less attractive. Visual recognition, reads the study, is “an automaticpsychological process occurring rapidly and intuitively with little or no apparentconscious deliberation”. If the subjects quickly chose a falsely flatteringimage- which must did- they genuinely believed it was really how they looked.Epley found no significant gender difference in responses. Nor was there anyevidence that, those who self-enhance the must (that is, the participants whothought the most positively doctored picture were real) were doing so to makeup for profound insecurities. In fact those who thought that the images higherup the attractiveness scale were real directly corresponded with those whoshowed other makers for having higher self-esteem. “I don’t think the findingsthat we having have are any evidence of personal delusion”, says Epley. “It’s areflection simply of people generally thinking well of themselves’. If you aredepressed, you won’t be self-enhancing. Knowing the results of Epley ‘sstudy,it makes sense that why people heat photographs of themselvesViscerally-on one level, they don’t even recognize the person in the picture asthemselves, Face book therefore ,is a self-enhancer’s paradise, where peoplecan share only the most flattering photos, the cream of their wit ,style,beauty, intellect and lifestyle it’s not that people’s profiles are dishonest,says Catalina toma of Wiscon—Madison university ,”but they portray an idealizedversion of themselves.

　　26. Accordingto the first paragraph, social psychologist have found that ______.

　　[A] our self-ratings areunrealistically high

　　[B]illusory superiority is baseless effect

　　[C]our need for leadership is unnatural

　　[D]self-enhancing strategies are ineffective

　　27. Visualrecognition is believed to be people’s______.

　　[A]rapid watching

　　[B]conscious choice

　　[C] intuitive response

　　[D]automatic self-defence

　　28. Epleyfound that people with higher self-esteem tended to______.

　　[A]underestimate their insecurities

　　[B] believe in theirattractiveness

　　[C]cover up their depressions

　　[D]oversimplify their illusions

　　29. The word“Viscerally”(Line 2,para.5) is closest in meaning to_____.

　　[A]instinctively

　　[B]occasionally

　　[C]particularly

　　[D]aggressively

　　30. It can beinferred that Facebook is self-enhancer’s paradise because people can _____.

　　[A]presenttheir dishonest profiles

　　[B]definetheir traditional life styles

　　[C]sharetheir intellectual pursuits

　　[D]withhold their unflatteringsides