单选题 An article in Scientific 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 to feel good about ourselves and we naturally employ a number of self-enhancing strategies to achieve this. Social psychologists have amassed oceans of research into what they call the "above average effect ," or "illusory superiority," and shown that, for example, 70% of us rate ourselves as above average in leadership, 93% in driving and 85% at getting on well with others—all obviously statistical impossibilities. We rose-tint our memories and put ourselves into self-affirming situations. We become defensive when criticized, and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our own esteem. We stalk around thinking we' re hot stuff. Psychologist and behavioral scientist Nicholas Epley oversaw a key study into self-enhancement and attractiveness. Rather than have people simply rate their beauty compared with others, he asked them to identify an original photograph of themselves from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appear more and less attractive. Visual recognition, reads the study, is "an automatic psychological process, occurring rapidly and intuitively with little or no apparent conscious deliberation." If the subjects quickly chose a falsely flattering image—which most did—they genuinely believed it was really how they looked. Epley found no significant gender difference in responses. Nor was there any evidence that those who self-enhanced the most(that is, the participants who thought the most positively doctored pictures were real)were doing so to make up for profound insecurities. In fact, those who thought that the images higher up the attractiveness scale were real directly corresponded with those who showed other markers for having higher self-esteem. "I don't think the findings that we have are any evidence of personal delusion," says Epley. "It's a reflection simply of people generally thinking well of themselves." If you are depressed, you won' t be self-enhancing. Knowing the results of Epley's study, it makes sense that many people hate photographs of themselves viscerally —on one level, they don't even recognize the person in the picture as themselves. Facebook, therefore, is a self-enhancer's paradise, where people can share only the most flattering photos, the cream of their wit, style, beauty, intellect and lifestyles. It's not that people's profiles are dishonest, says Catalina Toma of Wisconsin-Madison University, "but they portray an idealized version of themselves."

单选题 According to the first paragraph, social psychologists have found that______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：细节题。根据关键词“social psychologists”定位到第一段。最后一句提到Socialpsychologists have amassed oceans of research into what they call the “above average effect，”or“illusorysuperiority，”and shown that…all obviously statistical impossibilities．社会心理学家通过海量的研究得出了他们所谓的“高于平均水平效应”或“虚假的优越感”，并且表明……这在统计学上明显是不可能的事，因此A项“我们的自我评估不切实际得高”为正确答案。B项“虚幻的优越感是无根据的效应”、C项“自我增强策略是无效的”、D项“我们对领导力的要求是不自然的”，在原文中均找不到根据。

单选题 Visual recognition is believed to be people's ______ .

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：细节题。根据关键词“Visual recognition”定位到第三段文中提到visual recognition…is“an automatic psychological process， occurring rapidly and intuitively with little or no apparent consciousdeliberation．”(视觉识别是“一个自动的心理过程，是迅速且凭直觉发生的，几乎不经过明显有意识的考虑”。)因此B项“(视觉识别是)直觉反应”为正确答案，intuitive response是原文occurring…intuitively的同义再现。A项“快速配对”与D项“有意识的选择”均与原文with little or no apparent conscious deliberation表述矛盾。C项“自动的自我防卫”在原文找不到依据。

单选题 Epley found that people with higher self-esteem tended to______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：细节题。根据关键词“people with higher self-esteem”定位到第四段。文中提到those whothought that the images higher up the attractiveness scale were real directly corresponded with those who showedother markers for having higher self-esteem(那些认为照片越有吸引力就越真实的人恰好是那些表现出更强自尊心的人)，因此C项“相信他们的吸引力”为正确答案。A项“低估了他们的不安全感”、B项“掩盖了他们的沮丧”、D项“过分简化了他们的错觉”，均与原文不符。

单选题 The word "viscerally"(Para. 5)is closest in meaning to______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：词义题。根据关键词“viscerally”定位到第五段。前文埃普利的实验结果证明人们通常自我感觉良好。本段第一句提到Knowing the results of Epley’s study，it makes sense that many people hatephotographs of themselves viscerally(这就可以解释为什么许多人知道了埃普利的实验结果后，viscerally对他们自己的照片感到厌恶)，破折号后面解释道一on one level，they don’t even recognize the person in the picture asthemselves(在某种层面上，他们甚至并不认为照片中的人就是他们自己)，可见他们发自内心地、打心眼里厌恶图片中的自己。因此B项instinctively“本能地”与viscerally意思最相近，为正确答案。A项“偶然地”、C项“尤其”、D项“侵略地”均与原文不符。

单选题 It can be inferred that Facebook is a self-enhancer's paradise because people can______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：推断题。根据关键词“Facebook is a self-enhancer’s paradise”定位到最后一段。文中提到Facebook，therefore，is a self-enhancer’s paradise，where people can share only the most flattering photos，the creamof their wit，style，beauty，intellect and lifestyles．(脸谱网就是自我增强者的天堂，因为人们只在上面分享他们最漂亮的照片，他们智慧、风格、美貌、智力和生活方式中的精华部分。)因此B项“隐瞒他们有损形象的一面”为正确答案。A项“展现他们不诚实的一面”与原文It’s not that people’s profiles are dishonest表述不符。C项“定义他们传统的生活方式”，原文只说表现the cream of their lifestyles生活方式中的精华部分。D项“分享他们对知识的追求”，原文没提。