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        Say you're in the supermarket parking lot,holding your baby,bags of goods,and trying to open your car. A stranger walks up and says," Here,let me hold your baby." Should you let him?

        According to a new New York University study,knowing whether or not to trust someone is so important that we can tell whether a face is trustworthy before we even consciously know it's there. The researchers knew from previous studies that people are fairly similar when it comes to how they judge a face's trustworthiness. They wanted to find out whether that would be true if people only saw a face for a quick moment—an amount of time so short that it would prevent making a conscious judgment.

        To carry out their study,the researchers monitored the amygdala (扁桃腺结构) of 37 volunteers while showing them 300 faces for 33 milliseconds each. Those faces had already been tested with a different set of 10 subjects,who saw them for much longer. In those earlier tests,people agreed about whether to trust each face. In this new study,fascinatingly,different parts of the amygdala lit up when a subject saw an untrustworthy face and a trustworthy one—and it lit up more when the face in question was suspicious (可疑的).

        " Faces that appear likely to cause harm are suddenly tracked by the amygdala,so it could then quickly change other brain processes and make fast responses to people—approach or avoid," says Jon Freeman,the study's senior author. "Our talents for making instant judgments could either come from birth or be learned from the social environment."

        So should you trust the guy in the parking lot? Your brain already knows.

    1. (1) What is Paragraph 1 used to do?
      A . To summarize the whole passage. B . To make the passage more interesting. C . To introduce the topic of the passage. D . To warn people to guard against strangers.
    2. (2) The amygdala lit up more clearly when people ________.
      A . came across a neutral face mask B . saw an untrustworthy face C . met a reliable person D . saw a familiar face
    3. (3) What can we infer from Freeman's words?
      A . Brain processes cannot be changed. B . The amygdala tracks only faces of bad men. C . The amygdala decides the accuracy of judgments. D . The ability of making fast judgments can be acquired.
    4. (4) What would be the best title for the passage?
      A . Is facial trustworthiness reliable? B . You can judge a person even without being aware of it C . Your brain decides whether to trust people in milliseconds D . Can the amygdala reveal how people make automatic judgments?

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