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An article in Scientific America has pointed out that empirical research says that, actually, you think you’re more beautiful th

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问题    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."
It can be inferred that Facebook is a self-enhancer’s paradise because people can______.
选项 A、present their dishonest profiles
B、withhold their unflattering sides
C、define their traditional lifestyles
D、share their intellectual pursuits
答案B
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 cream of 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。
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