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The “halo effect” is a classic finding social psychology. It is the idea that general evaluations(评价) about a person (e.g. she is likeable) influence judgments about their specific traits(品质)(e.g. she is intelligent). Hollywood stars give the perfect example. Because they are often attractive and likeable, we naturally consider they are also intelligent, friendly and so on. That is, sometimes, not true. In the 1970s, well-known social psychologist Richard Nisbett set out to prove the fact that we actually pay little attention to our thought processes in general, especially to the halo effect. Nisbett wanted to examine the way students made judgments about teachers. They had been divided into two groups to watch two different videos of the same teacher, who happened to have a strong Indian accent. One group watched the teacher answer a series of questions in an extremely warm and friendly manner. The second group saw exactly the same person answer exactly the same 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. 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 hale 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 idea s on the halo effect. At the same time, for those who had seen the other video, the result was just the wrong way around. 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 influenced their evaluation of his individual traits at all. The halo effect is fascinating and now well-known 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. So the next time you consider buying a pair of designer jeans or decide whether you like someone, ask yourself whether the halo effect is operating. Are you really evaluating the traits of the person? This simple check could save you wasting your money or refusing a royal friend. Or perhaps, even if you do check, you’ll still never know. 59. The passage is mainly about A. the cause of the halo effect B. the development of the halo effect C. the evaluation of the halo effect D. the influence of the halo effect 请老师写出是如何排除其他的选项，或者是如何判断出来这个正确答案的。答案：D

解题思路： 如下
解题过程：
本题为主旨题 四个选项只有第二个词不同,其他都相同。而关键词halo effect出现在相同的部分,所以我们只有对比每个选项所说的halo effect的不同侧面。
A选项的cause“原因”,原文没有提到
B选项development“发展”,在中考阅读文章中的体现往往会出现很多从过去到现在的表示时间的词,最后一段往往以today或nowadays 开头,这些特征均与本文不符故排除。
C选项的evaluation“评估”,与本文不符排除。
D选项的influence“影响”,符合文章的信息点,尤其是所举例中提到halo effect导致的人们行为后果正确.
最终答案：略