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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（禮儀）is sort of strange,” Gray told the BBC. “They are socially very interesting but often very awkward 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, liftusers 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（對角線地）across from each other to create distance.
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.
New entrants to the lift will need to size up the situation when the doors slide open and then act decisively. 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 construed（理解）as threatening or strange. “The easiest way to do this is to avoid eye contact,” she said.
【小題1】The main purpose of the article is to _______.
A. share an interesting but awkward elevator ride
B. tell us some unwritten rules of elevator etiquette
C. analyze what makes people feel awkward in an elevator
B. remind us not to behave strangely when in an elevator
【小題2】According to Gray, when people enter an elevator, they usually _______.

A．turn around and greet one another

B．look around or examine their phone

C．try to keep a distance from other people

D．make eye contact with those in the elevator

【小題3】 Which of the following describes how people usually stand when they are in the elevator?

【小題4】 The underlined phrase “size up” in Paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to _______.

A．judge

B．ignore

C．put up with

D．make the best of

Answer 1

【小題1】B
【小題2】C
【小題3】C
【小題4】A

解析試題分析：本文作者敘述了乘坐電梯的人的禮儀，由于電梯的空間小，人們進去之后如果有兩個人就各自站一個角，如果有三個人人們往往就站成對角線，如果是四個人他們就站在四個角，五個人時那個人就站在中間，彼此之間都常常保持一定的距離，避免眼的接觸，有的人向下看或者玩弄手機。
【小題1】主旨題：根據(jù)The lift becomes this interesting social space where etiquette (禮儀) is sort of odd (奇怪的),” Gray told the BBC. “They [elevators] are socially very interesting but often very awkward places.及短文的大意可知告訴我們一些電梯不成文的禮儀，故選B
【小題2】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)If there are two of you, you go into different corners, standing diagonally (對角線地) across from each other to create distance.試圖彼此之間要保持一定的距離，故選C
【小題3】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)when there is a fourth person it becomes a square, with someone in every corner. 當有四個人在電梯中的時候經(jīng)常這四個人各站一個角，故選C。
【小題4】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)when the doors slide open and then act decisively需要及時判斷情況找好自己的位置，故選A
考點：考查日常生活類短文閱讀。