Passage 29

Tests conducted at the University of Pennsylvania’s Psychological(心理学的) Laboratory showed that anger is one of the most difficult emotions to detect from facial(面部的) expression. Professor Dallas E. Buzby showed 716 students pictures of extremely angry persons, and asked them to identify the emotion from the facial expression. Only two percent made correct judgments. Anger was most frequently judged as “ pleased”. And a typical reaction of a student seeing the picture of a man who was extremely angry was to classify his expression as either “confused” or simply “amazed”. Other studies showed that it is extremely difficult to tell whether a man is angry or not just by looking at his face. The investigation found further that women are better at detecting anger from facial expression than men are. Surprisingly, they also found that psychological training does not sharpen one’s ability to judge a man’s emotions by his expressions but appears actually to slow it down. For in the university tests, the more courses the student had taken in psychology, the poorer judgment scores he turned in.

1.The main information in this passage centers around_______________.

A. the relation between anger and other emotions

B. the detection of anger from facial expression

C. the differences between men and women with respect to emotion

D. the influence of psychology on one’s emotion

2.From the passage we know that__________

A. anger is difficult to detect by looking at a person’s face

B. anger is often mixed with other emotions

C. men may get angry more easily

D. anger can be detected by a psychologically trained person

3.Students with psychological training who were tested_________.

A. marked less than two percent of their possible choices correctly

B. were less able to judge correctly than the average student

C. did better than the average student in the group

D did as well as the women students

4.To achieve the greatest success in detecting anger from facial expression, it would be best to ______

A. use adults rather than students as judges

B. ask women in fields other than psychology to judge

C. ask women rather than men to judge

D. ask psychologists to judge

5.The word “sharpen”(Line 15) is closest in meaning to _____.

A. raise

B. help develop

C. weaken

D. help estimate