大学英语四级模拟试卷第15组（阅读2）

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Passage Two 
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. 
We are all naturally attracted to people with ideas, beliefs and interests like our own. Similarly, we feel comfortable with people with physical qualities similar to ours. 
You may have noticed how people who live or work closely together come to behave in a similar way. Unconsciously,we copy those we are close to or love or admire. So a sportsman’s individual way of walking with raised shoulders is imitated by an admiring fan. a pair of lovers both shake their heads in the same way. an employee finds himself duplicating his boss’s habit of wagging a pen between his fingers while thinking. 
In every case, the influential person may not consciously notice the imitation, but he will feel comfortable in its presence.
And if he does notice the matching of his gestures or movements, he finds it pleasing he is influencing people: they are drawn to him.
Sensitive people have been mirroring their friends and acquaintances all their lives, and winning affection and respect in this way without being aware of their methods. Now, for people who want to win agreement or trust, affection or sympathy, some psychologists recommend the deliberate use of physical mirroring.
The clever saleswoman echoes her lady customer’s movements, tilting her head in the same way to judge a color match, or
folding her arms a few seconds after the customer, as though consciously attracted by her. The customer feels that the
saleswoman is in sympathy with her, and understands her needs - a promising relationship for a sate to take place.
The clever lawyer trying in a law-court to influence a judge, imitates the great man’s shrugging of his shoulders, the tone of his voice and the rhythm of his speech. 
Of course, physical mirroring must be subtle. If you blink every time your target blinks, or bite your bottom lip every time he does, your mirroring has become mockery and you can expect trouble. So, if you can’t model sympathetically, don’t play the game.
26. According to the passage, “physical mirroring,” (Line. 6, Para. 4) means ____.
A) the attraction to people with ideas, beliefs and interests like our own 
B) the comfortable feeling about people with physical qualities similar to ours
C) the fact that people living or working closely together behave in a similar way
D) the imitation of the gestures or movements of those we are close to, or love, or admire

27. Which of the following is NOT a deliberate use of physical mirroring,
according to the author?
A) A saleswoman tilts her head after her customer to judge a color match.
B) A lawyer emulates the tone of the judge’s voice and the rhythm of his speech.
C) Sensitive people have been mirroring their friends all their lives. 
D) A naughty boy blinks every time the teacher blinks.

28. Which of the following is true?
A) Sensitive people have been mirroring their friends and acquaintances because they want to win their affection and respect in this way.
B) The clever saleswoman echoes her lady customer’s movements because she is unconsciously attracted by her. 
C) The lawyer who imitates the judge is trying to influence him.
D) Physical mirroring is always flattering to those who are imitated.

29. Physical mirroring can cause trouble if ____.
A) the person mirrored finds that people are drawn to him
B) the mirroring has become mockery 
C) the lawyer shrugs his shoulders the way the judge does
D) it has been found to be deliberately used 

30. The paragraph following this passage will most probably move on to ____.
A) some ways to prevent physical mirroring from offending
B) the importance of physical mirroring in daily life
C) an example of physical mirroring by a behavioral scientist
D) the troubles caused by the deliberate use of physical mirroring