2016高考英语阅读理解练习及答案(48)

2016

高考英语阅读理解练习及答案（

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Soldiers

and

other

military

people

wear

uniformswith

various

other

symbols

to

indicate

in

the

business

world

everyone wearsmore or less similar suits

，

and you cannot tell at

aglance

who

ranks

higher

or

lower

than

do

people

in

the

business world show theirsuperiority? An attempt to study this

was made bytwo researchers using a series of silent

two actors

play

the

parts

of

an

executiveand

a

visitor

，

and

switch

roles

scene had one man at his desk playing the part of an executive

，

while theother

，

playing the part of a visitor

，

knocks at the door

，

opens

it

and

approaches

the

desk

todiscuss

some

business

matter.

The

audience

watching

the

films

was

asked

to

rate

the

executive

and

the

visitor

in

terms

certain

set

of

rules

about

status

began

to

emerge

from

the

visitorshowed

the

least

amount

of

status

when

he

stopped

just

inside

the

door

to

talk

across

the

roomto

the

seated

was

considered

to

have

more

status when he walked halfway up to thedesk

，

and he had the

most

status

when

he

walked

directly

up

to

the

desk

and

stood

right infront Of the seated executive.

Another

thing

that

affected

the

status

of

the

visitor

in

the