单选题 The process of perceiving others is rarely translated (to ourselves or others) into cold, objective terms. "She was 5 feet 8 inches tall, had fair hair, and wore a colored skirt." More often, we try to get inside the other person to pinpoint his or her attitudes, emotions, motivations, abilities, ideas, and characters. Furthermore, we sometimes behave as if we can accomplish this difficult job very quickly—perhaps with a two-second glance.
We try to obtain information about others in many ways. Berger suggests several methods for reducing uncertainties about others; who are known to you so you can compare the observed person"s behavior with the known others" behavior, observing a person in a situation where social behavior is relatively unrestrained or where a wide variety of behavioral responses are called for, deliberately structuring the physical or social environment so as to observe the person"s responses to specific stimuli, asking people who have had or have frequent contact with the person about him or her, and using various strategies in face-to-face interaction to uncover information about another person—question, self-disclosures, and so on.
Getting to know someone is a never-ending task, largely because people are constantly changing and the methods we use to obtain information are often imprecise. You may have known someone for ten years and still know very little about him. If we accept the idea that we won"t ever fully know another person, it enables us to deal more easily with those things that get in the way of accurate knowledge such as secrets and deceptions. It will also keep us from being too surprised or shocked by seemingly inconsistent behavior. Ironically, those things that keep us from knowing another person too well (e.g. secrets and deceptions) may be just as important to the development of a satisfying relationship as those things that enable us to obtain accurate knowledge about a person (e.g. disclosures and truthful statement).
单选题 According to the passage, if we perceive a person, we are likely to be interested in ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第一段可知，我们很少根据多高、染什么颜色的头发、穿什么衣服去认识一个人，而更多的是通过他的内在去判断，“More often, we try to get inside the other person to pinpoint his or her attitudes, emotions, motivations, abilities, ideas, and characters.”因此，答案为C。
单选题 Some people are often surprised by what other people do. According to Berger, that is mainly because ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 结合第二段和第三段内容可知，有一些人总是为他人的所作所为吃惊，这是因为他们没有意识到我们永远不可能完全了解一个人。
单选题 We may have known someone for ten years and still know very little about him because ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 由第三段可知，我们可能认识一个人十年了但是还对他所知甚少，“because people are constantly changing and the methods we use to obtain information are often imprecise”因为我们获取信息的方式通常是不准确的，B项是对imprecise的同义转述。
单选题 There are things that we find preventing us from knowing others. These things are ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 我们发现有一些东西阻碍我们认识别人，根据第三段“those things that keep us from knowing another person too well(e.g. secrets and deceptions)”可知，B为正确答案。
单选题 This passage mainly concerns ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本文分别讲了how to perceive others, methods of perceiving others, factors preventing us from knowing others。因此答案为B。