Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section．Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements．For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D．You should decide on the best choice.
The process of perceiving other people is rarely translated into cold, objective terms．'She was 5 feet 8 inches tall, had fair hair, and wore a colored skirt.' More often, we try to get inside the other person to pinpoint his or her attitudes, emotions, motivations, abilities, ideas and characters．Furthermore, we sometimes behave as if we can accomplish this difficult job very' quickly—perhaps with a twosecond glance.
We try to obtain information about others in many ways．Berger suggests several methods for reducing uncertainties about others: watching, without being noticed, a person interacting with others, particularly with others who are known to you, so you can compare the observed person's behavior．with the known other's behavior; ob serving a person in a situation where social behavior．is relatively un restrained or where a wide variety of behavioral responses are called for; deliberately structuring the physical or social environment so as to observe the person's responses to specific stimuli; asking people who have had or have frequent contact with the person about him or her; and using various strategies in facetoface interaction to uncover information about another person—questions, selfdisclosures(自我表露), and so on．Getting to know someone is a neverending task, largely because people are constantly changing and the methods we use to obtain information are often imprecise．You may have known someone for ten years and still know very little about him．If we accept the idea that we won't ever fully know another person, it enables us to deal more easily with those things that get in the way of accurate knowledge such as secrets and deceptions．It will also keep us from being too surprised by seemingly inconsistent behavior．Ironically(讽刺性地), those things that keep us from knowing an other person too well (e．g．secrets and deceptions) may be just as important to the development of a satisfying relationship as the things that enable us to obtain accurate knowledge about a person (e.g．disclosures and truthful statements).
The word 'pinpoint' (Para．1) basically means ______.