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Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize peo...
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Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people? Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different from another. Yet a very young child or even an animal, such as a pigeon can learn to recognize faces. We all take this ability for granted.
We also tell people apart by how they behave. When we talk about someone’s personality, we mean the ways in which he or she acts, speaks, thinks and feels that make that individual different from others.
Like the human face, human personality is very complex. But describing someone’s personality in words is somewhat easier than describing his face. If you were asked to describe what a “nice face” looked like, you probably would have a difficult time doing so. But if you were asked to describe a “nice person”, you might begin to think about someone who was kind, considerate, friendly, warm, and so forth.
There are many words to describe how a person thinks, feels and acts. Gordon Ports, an American psychologist, found nearly 18,000 English words characterizing differences in people’s behavior. And many of us use this information as a basis for describing, or typing, his personality. Book worms, conservatives, military types people are described with such terms.
People have always tried to “type” each other. Actors in early Greek drama wore masks to show the audience whether they played the villain’s or the hero’s role. In fact, the words “person” and “personality” come from the Latin word “persona”, meaning “mask”. Today, most television and movie actors do not wear masks. But we can easily tell the “good guys” from the “bad guys” because the two types differ in appearance as well as in actions.
1.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A.People may have different personalities.
B.People differ from each other in appearance.
C.People can learn to recognize human faces.
D.People can describe all human features of others.
2.The reason that it is easier to describe one’s personality in words than ones face is that ________.
A.many words are available to describe personality
B.a person’s personality is easily distinguished
C.people’s personalities are very much alike
D.a person’s face is more complex than his personality
3.We learn from the passage that people are classified according to__________.
A.their way of wearing masks
B.their way of speaking and playing
C.their knowledge and behavior
D.their physical appearance and personality
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