单项选择题
                                            
Faces, like fingerprints, are
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. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people Even a
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writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different from another. Yet a very young child—or even an animal,
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a pigeon—can learn to
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faces. We all take this
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for granted.
We also tell people apart by
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they behave. When we talk about someone"s personality, we mean the ways
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which he or she acts, speaks, thinks and feels
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make that individual different from others.
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the human face, human personality is very complex. But describing someone"s
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in words is somewhat easier than describing his face. If you were asked to describe what a "nice face" looked like, you probably would have a
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time doing so. But if you were asked to describe a "nice
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", you might begin to think about someone who was kind, considerate, friendly, warm, and so forth.
There are many words to describe how a person thinks, feels and acts. Gordon Allports, an American psychologist, found nearly 18,000 English words
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differences in people"s behavior. And many of us use this information as a basis for describing, or typing, his personality. Bookworms, conservatives, military types—people
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with such terms.
People have always tried to "type" each other. Actors in early Greek drama wore
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to show the audience
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they played the villain"s or the hero"s role.
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, the words "person" and "personality" come from the Latin persona, meaning "mask". Today, most television and movie actors do not wear masks. But we can
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tell the "good guys"
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the "bad guys" because the two types differ in
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as well as in actions.
                                        
                                        
                                            A.described
B.are described
C.are describing
D.are being described