江苏省盐城市大丰区小海镇2022届中考英语三轮复****阅读理解总分值冲刺练****1〔无答案〕 3 阅读理解总分值冲刺 1. The “halo effect〞 is a classic finding inThe second group saw exactly the same person answer exactly the questions in a cold and distant manner. In one the teacher appeared to like teaching and students, and in the other he came across as someone powerful who didn’t like teaching at all. 3 4. After each group of students watched the videos they were asked to evaluate the teacher on physical appearance, mannerisms and even his accent (mannerisms were kept the same across both videos). The same as the halo effect infers, students who saw the “warm〞 one evaluated him more attractive, his mannerisms more likeable and even his accent as more pleasing. This was unsurprising as it backed up the ideas on the halo effect. At the same time, for those who had seen the other video, the result was just the wrong way around. 5. The surprise is that students had no clue why they gave one teacher higher evaluations. Most said that how much they liked the teacher had not i 5 nfluenced their evaluation of his individual traits at all. 6. The halo effect is fascinating and now well-used in the business world. For example, books that have “Harvard Classics〞 written on the front can ask twice the price of the exact same book without it. The same is true in the fashion industry. 7. So,