题文
You may not pay much attention to your daily elevator ride. Many of us use a lift several times during the day without really thinking about it. But Lee Gray, PhD of the University of North Carolina, US, has made it his business to examine this overlooked form of public transport. He is known as the “Elevator Guy”.“The lift becomes this interesting social space where etiquette (礼仪) is sort of odd (奇怪的),” Gray told the BBC. “Elevators are socially very interesting but often very awkward (尴尬的) places.”
We walk in and usually turn around to face the door. If someone else comes in, we may have to move. And here, according to Gray, lift users unthinkingly go through a set pattern of movements. He told the BBC what he had observed.
He explained that when you are the only one inside a lift, you can do whatever you want – it’s your own little box.
If there are two of you, you go into different corners, standing diagonally (对角线地) across from each other to create distance.
When a third person enters, you will unconsciously form a triangle（三角形）. And when there is a fourth person it becomes a square, with someone in every corner. A fifth person is probably going to have to stand in the middle.
New entrants to the lift will need to size up the situation when the doors slide open and then act according to their decisions. once in, for most people the rule is simple – look down, or look at your phone.
Why are we so awkward in lifts?
“You don’t have enough space,” Professor Babette Renneberg, a clinical psychologist at the Free University of Berlin, told the BBC. “Usually when we meet other people, we have about an arm’s length of distance between us. And that’s not possible in most elevators.”
In such a small, enclosed space it becomes very important to act in a way that cannot be understood as threatening or odd. “The easiest way to do this is to avoid eye contact(接触) ,” she said.
小题1:According to Gray, when people enter an elevator, they usually _____.A．turn around and greet one anotherB．look around or examine their phoneC．try to keep a distance from other peopleD．make eye contact with those in the elevator小题2:Which of the following describes how people usually stand when there are at least two people in an elevator? (The point in the chart refers to one person.)
小题3:The underlined phrase “size up” in Paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to _____.A．ignoreB．judgeC．put up withD．make the best of小题4:According to the article, people feel awkward in lifts because of _____.A．the lack of spaceB．someone’s odd behaviorsC．their unfamiliarity with one anotherD．their eye contact with one another 题型：未知难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:A
解析
文章主要分析了人们乘坐电梯时的行为。平时乘坐电梯时，很少有人会注意到自己的行为。人们进入电梯后，都会无意识地与他人保持距离，当电梯变得拥挤时，人们就会觉得很尴尬。
小题1:细节题：根据第三段“If someone else comes in, we may have to move. ...liftusers unthinkingly go through a set pattern of movements.”可知，人们往往面对电梯门站立，当有人进来时，里面的人会无意识地挪动一下，与进来的人保持距离，故选C。
小题2:根据第五段“If there are two of you, you go into different corners, standing diagonally (对角线地) across from each other to create distance.”和第六段“When a third person enters, you will unconsciously form a triangle. And when there is a fourth person it becomes a square, with someone in every corner. A fifth person is probably going to have to stand in the middle.”可知，当电梯里有两个人时，他们往往会站在不同的角落里，呈对角线的形状来保持距离，三个人会形成三角，四个人站成正方形，第五个人站在中间，故选C。
小题3:猜词题：从第七段的句子： New entrants to the lift will need to size up the situation when the doors slide open当有人要进入电梯，电梯门打开的那一刻，他需要权衡当前的形势，以作出决定自己该站在什么位置，“size up”的意思是“判断”。故选B。
小题4:细节题：根据第七段“Why are we so awkward ( adj. 尴尬的) in lifts?”和第八段““You don’t have enough space, ...”可知，人们的行为之所以变得古怪，是因为电梯里没有足够的空间，故选A。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“You may not pay much.....”主要考查你对 [日常生活类阅读 ]考点的理解。日常生活类阅读
日常生活类阅读的概念：
日常生活这一话题主要涉及人们衣食住行等方面的活动。这一话题的选材主要针对人们日常的工作，生活以及学习情况。做这一类题时，最主要的是要把握好人物的活动内容，时间和地点。
日常生活类阅读题答题技巧：
【题型说明】
该类文章内容涉及到人们的言谈举止、生活习惯、饮食起居、服饰仪表、恋爱婚姻、消遣娱乐、节日起源、家庭生活等。文章篇幅短小，追根溯源，探索各项风俗的历史渊源，内容有趣。命题也以送分题为主，如事实细节题、语义转换题、词义猜测题和简单推理判断题等。虽然这类文章读起来感觉轻松，试题做起来比较顺手，但绝不能掉以轻心。因为稍不留神，就会丢分。
【备考提醒】
为了保证较高准确率，建议同学们做好以下几点：
1、保持正常的考试心态。笔者在教学中发现，越是容易的试题，同学们越是容易失分。为什么呢？因为在这种情况下，同学们极易产生麻痹思想，认为题目好做，就不引起高度重视，于是思维不发散、不周密。而命题人就是利用同学们的这一弱点，设计陷阱题。所以，无论试题难易与否，我们都要保持正常的考试心态。试题容易，不欣喜；试题难，不悲观。
2、根据前面讲到的方法，认认真真、细细心心做好事实细节题。
3、做好语义转换题。这类题是根据英语中一词多义和某些词语在文中能表达一定的修辞意义的原则而设计的。要求同学们解释某生词的含义，确定多义词或短语在文中的意思，确认文中的某个代词所指代的对象，或者对英语中特有的表达、格言、谚语进行解释。这种题要求同学们一定要根据上下文猜测词义或理解句子，切不可望文生义。
4、做好简单推理判断题。简单推理判断题要以表面文字为前提，以具体事实为依据进行推理，做出判断。这种推理方式比较直接，只要弄清事实，即可结合常识推断出合理的结论。
