75．Which
of the following may the study lead to according to the researchers?
A．Parents may want to limit what their babies
see on television.
B．Actors may try to behave themselves well in
front of babies.
C．Babies may be allowed to choose what they see
on TV.
D．Scientists may stop ignoring babies’
emotional world.
答案 72.C 73.D 74.D 75.A
Passage 15
(2006－2007学年度南通市九校(学科基地)联考B篇)
People tend to become more
personal and hide less of themselves when using email. Researchers from Open
University in Britain have found in a recent study that there are good reasons
for this.
The team of
researchers asked 83 pairs of students, all strangers to each other, to solve a
problem. They had to discuss this question: If only five people in the world
could be saved from a world disaster, who should they be? The pairs of students
had to talk over the problem either face to face or by computers. Dr. Johnson
said, “They told their partners four times as much about themselves when they
talked over the Internet as when they talked face to face. When the computers
were fitted with cameras so that students could see each other, this limited
the personal side of the conversation.”
Generally
the information was not extremely personal. It was mainly about things such as
where they went to school, or where they used to live. But some students
discussed their love stories, and personal childhood experiences.
Dr Johnson
believes that emailing encourages people to focus on themselves. And when they
do this, they become more open, especially if there are no cameras. “If you
cannot see the other person, it becomes easier to talk about yourself. This is
because you are not thinking what the other person is thinking of you. So
emailing has become the modern way of talking,” said Dr. Johnson. However, this
style of talking is not entirely new. “In the 19th century people started to
use the ‘telegraph’ to communicate. Now the same kind of thing has
happened and people ended up speaking more freely.”
Dr. Johnson
thinks that emailers need to know about these effects of emailing, especially
when they start work in a company. “ If you don’t know about it, you could find
yourself saying more about yourself than you wanted to.”