Robert Feldman believes that white lies are ______.A.habitualB.occasionalC.proceduralD.har
Robert Feldman believes that white lies are ______.
A.habitual
B.occasional
C.procedural
D.harmful
Robert Feldman believes that white lies are ______.
A.habitual
B.occasional
C.procedural
D.harmful
According to Robert Feldman, the author of The Liar in Your Life, Americans now______.
A.regard the truth as very important
B.tend to lie more often than before
C.start a conversation with three lies
D.hate to be deceived by their children
According to Robert Feldman, people now ______.
A.have to learn how to tell truth from lies
B.disregard the lies told by the government
C.do not lie as often as before
D.are more prone to accept lies
How does Robert Feldman see little white lies?
A.They do harm to both people and the society.
B.They are more acceptable than habitual lies.
C.They are necessary in the social relationships.
D.They are good-intentioned and thus harmless.
66 "People tell a considerable number of lies in everyday conversation. It was a very surprising result. We didn't expect lying to be such a part of daily conversation",said Robert S Feldman.
The study also found that lies told by men and women differ in content,though not in quantity. 67 "Women were more likely to lie to make the person they were talking to feel good,while men lied most often to make themselves look better, "Feldman noted.
As part of the study, a group of 121 pairs of undergraduate students were recruited to participate. 68 Participants were unaware that the session was being videotaped. At the end of the session, the students were then asked to watch the video of themselves and identify any inaccuracies in what they had said during the conversation. They were encouraged to identify all lies,no matter how big or small.
Feldman said the students who participated in the study were surprised at their own results. "When they were watching themselves on videotape,people found themselves lying much more than they thought they had,"Feldman said. The lies the students told varied considerably. 69 Others were more extreme, such as falsely claiming to be the star of a rock band.
"It's so easy to lie,"Feldman said. "We teach our children to be honest,but we also tell them it's polite to pretend they like a birthday gift they've been given. 70
A. The results showed that men do not lie more than women or vice versa, but they lie in different ways.
B. Kids get a very mixed message regarding the practical aspects of lying,and it has an impact on how they behave as adults.
C. Some were relatively minor, such as agreeing with the person that they liked someone when they did not.
D. They were told that the purpose of the study was to examine how people interact when they meet someone new.
E. Anyway, the knowledge that we are all capable of lying makes it really hard to trust people when they tell you things.
F. The study,published in the Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology, found that 60 percent of people lied at least once during a 10-minute conversation and told an average of two to three lies.
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Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.
The Truth about Lying
Ricky Gervais's new film, The Invention of Lying, is about a world where lying doesn't exist, which means that everybody tells the truth, and everybody believes everything everybody else says. "I've always hated you," a man tells a work colleague. "He seems nice, if a bit fat," a woman says about her date. It's all truth, all the time, at whatever the cost. Until one day, when Mark, a down-on-his-luck loser played by Gervais, discovers a thing called "lying" and what it can get him. Within days, Mark is rich. famous, and courting the girl of his dreams. And be cause nobody knows what "lying" is, he goes on, happily living what has become a complete and utter farce.
It's meant to be funny, but it's also a more serious commentary on us all. As Americans, we like to think we value the truth. Time and time again, public-opinion polls show that honesty is among the top five characteristics we want in a leader, friend, or lover; the world is full of woeful stories about the tragic consequences of betrayal. At the same time, deception is all around us. We are lied to by government officials and public figures to a disturbing degree; many of our social relationships are based on little white lies we tell each other. We deceive our children, only to be deceived by them in return. And the average person, says psychologist Robert Feldman, the author of a new book on lying, tells at least three lies in the first 10 minutes of a conversation. "There's always been a lot of lying," says Feldman, whose new book, The Liar in Your Life, came out this month. "But I do think we're seeing a kind of cultural shift where we're lying more, it's easier to lie, and in some ways it's almost more acceptable."
As Paul Ekman. one of Feldman's longtime lying colleagues and the inspiration behind the Fox TV series "Lie To Me," defines it, a liar is a person who "intends to mislead," "deliberately," without being asked to do so by the target of the lie. Which doesn't mean that all lies are equally toxic: some are simply habitual —"My pleasure! "—while others might be well-meaning while lies. But each. Feldman argues, is harmful, because of the standard it creates. And the more lies we tell, even if they're little white lies, the more deceptive we and society become.
We are a culture of liars, to put it bluntly, with deceit so deeply ingrained in our mind that we hardly even notice we're engaging in it. Spam e-mail (垃垃圾邮件), deceptive advertising, the everyday pleasantries we don't really mean—"It's so great to meet you! ""I love that dress"— have. as Feldman puts it, become "a while noise we've learned to neglect." And Feldman also argues that cheating is more common today than ever. The Josephson Institute, a nonprofit focused on youth ethics, concluded in a 2008 survey of nearly 30,000 high school students that "cheating in school continues to be spreading, and it's getting worse." In that survey, 64 percent of students said they'd cheated on a test during the past year, up from 60 percent in 2006. Another recent survey, by Junior Achievement, revealed that more than a third of teens believe lying, cheating, or copying can be necessary, to succeed, while a brand-new study, commissioned by the publishers of Feldman's book, shows that 18-to 34-year-olds—those of us fully reared in this lying culture—deceive more frequently than the general population.
Teaching us to li
A.a most unlucky loser
B.the most honest man
C.despised by his date
D.hated those who lied
— Is it going to be warm next week?
— _________________.
A: Yes, it is
B; I don't believe it
C; No, it hasn't
What is the meaning of“folklore”in the last paragraph?
A. Traditional customs and beliefs.
B. Verified hypotheses.
C. Widely held unsupported notions.
D. Tales or sayings preserved orally.
BELIE:
A.prevent
B.exhibit
C.regulate
D.aver
E.inflate
A.preposterous … augments
B.reckless … belie
C.perfidious … confirms
D.guileless … underlines
E.trustworthy … complicates
A.Because he was thought to be aware of countless plane crashes.
B.Because he was believed to have liked bus-reading.
C.Because he was thought to be nervous about flying.
D.Because he was believed not to be able to pilot a plane.
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