阅读理解 The process of perceiving other people 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: watching, without being noticed, a person interacting with others, particularly with 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-questions, self-disclosures (自我表露), 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 satisfying relationship as those things that enable us to obtain accurate knowledge about a person (e.g., disclosure and truthful statements).

单选题 26.The word "pinpoint" (Paragraph 1) basically means______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】文章首段前两句告诉我们在与人交流时，不是为了获取一些冰冷的数据，而是要了解对方的性格、动机、能力、态度、品质等，四个选项中只有选项[D]identify可以表达通过方法对对方加以识别的意思。选项[A]appreciate表示欣赏，选项[B]obtain虽然表示获取，但是与选项[D]比较起来少了“识别”这层含义，选项[C]interpret表示解释、诠释，均不符合题意。

单选题 27.What do we learn from the first paragraph?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】本题要求考生根据第一段的内容做出推理。推理题的难度在于既不能不推，也不能推理过度。本段最后一句Furthermore，we sometimes behave as if we can accomplish this difficult job very quickly—perhaps with a two-second glance指出，人们会采用几秒钟看对方一眼的方式来完成这个很困难的识人任务，显然是低估了此事的难度，故答案为选项[B]。同时需要注意逻辑词Furthermore在语义上有递进的提示，所以第一段最后一句一定比其他两个句子都重要。

单选题 28.It can be inferred from Berger's suggestions that______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】根据题干定位至原文第二段第二句，作者罗列了Berger提到的诸多方法。因为这些方法都是采用分号隔开，所以是在分别解释每种做法的具体实施方式，并且都是彼此并列的关系。其中罗列的大多数方式都是提醒人们避开与你想了解的人的面对面交流，即符合选项[B]所说的内容。选项[A]是将下一段的内容拿来做干扰，指出人们不是在所有场合下都真实地展现自己。选项[C]和[D]都含有最高级的信息the best way和the best strategy，但在文章中并没有看到这种最高级的信息被确认。事实上，作者对罗列的方法并没有进行比较，所以这两个选项是对原文的曲解及无中生有。本题再次体现了推理题的特点。

单选题 29.In developing personal relationships, secrets and deceptions, in the author's opinion, are______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】题目询问作者对人际关系的看法。可定位至原文第三段：If we accept the idea that we won’t ever fully know another person，it enables us to…such as secrets and deceptions…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 satisfying relationship as those things that enable us to obtain accurate knowledge about a person(e．g．，disclosure and truthful statements)．这几句明确指出了选项[C]所说的内容，即在我们了解一个人这方面两者同等重要。故答案为[C]。