A lift would not be a very good theme park attraction now.Going in a lift is such an everyday thing that it would just be boring.Yet psychologists and others who study human behavior find lifts fascinating.The reason is simple.Scientists have always studied animals in zoos.The nearest they can get to that with humans is in observing them in lifts2.
It breaks all the usual conventions about the bubble of personal space3 we carry around with us-and you just cant choose to move away,says workplace psychologist,Gary Fitzgibbon.Being trapped in this setting can create different types of tensions,he says.Some people are scared of them.Others use them as an opportunity to get close to the boss.Some stand close to the door.Others hide in the comers.Most people try and shrink into the background.But some behave in a way that makes others notice them.There are a few people who just stand in a comer taking notes.
Dont worry about them.They fire probably from a university.
词汇:
skyline/5skaIlaIn/n.空中轮廓线 pulley/5pulI/n.滑轮fairground/5feE^raJnd/n.集市场地 bubble/5bQbl/n.幻想、妄想
tension/5tenFEn/n.紧张
练习:
1. ...these are cities concerned with the pastin the first paragraph refer to cities that
A) are worried about their past.
B) have a glorious past to be proud of.
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