专题 08 ”情人眼里出西施“效应 --2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (8) Perception: A rose by any other name 文化认知：情人眼里出西施 主题语境：人与社会 主题语境内容：社会与文化 【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。） TO THE SWEDES, there are few smells more pleasant than that of surströmming(鲱鱼罐头). To most non-Swedes there are probably few  smells more disgusting. In determining which scents(气味) people find pleasant and which they do not, surströmming suggests culture must play a large part. New research, however, suggests that might not be the case. Artin Arshamian, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, and Asifa Majid, a psychologist at the University of Oxford, began with the expectation that culture would play an important role in determining pleasant smells. They had noticed from their own previous work that people from different cultures described smells differently. They also knew from past experiments by other researchers that culture was important in determining which sorts of faces people found beautiful. Thus, they expected t