文档介绍：高考英语阅读社会现象类巩固训练
阅读强化训练
（一）
Did you hear what happened at yesterday’s meeting? Can you believe it? If yo set of statements presented to the participants in the first experiment.
In each experiment, participants found both negative and positive gossip to be of personal value with different reasons. “Positive gossip has self-improvement value,” they write. “Competence-related positive gossip about others contains lessons about how to improve one’s own competence. On the other hand, negative gossip has self-promotion value, because it provides individuals with social comparison information that justifies self-promoting judgments which results in feelings of pride.”
In addition, the results “showed that negative gossip brought about self-protection concerns,” the researchers write. “Negative gossip makes people c oncerned that their reputations may be at risk, as they may personally become targets of negative gossip in the future, which generates fear.” Fear is hardly a pleasant sensation(感觉), but it can be a motivating one. As researchers put it: “Gossip convenien tly provides individuals with indirect social-comparison information about relevant others.”
1. Why are we drawn to gossip according to the researchers?
A. We need evaluative information about others to evaluate o