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专题 04 为什么电梯里有镜子？ （科技与发现） --2023年高考选材时文阅读外刊新闻+热词必背+高考链接+语法填空+全文翻译 主题语境 为什么电梯里有镜子？ 话题 人与社会 文章来源 www.scienceabc.com 科技与生活 科技与发现 目录： 1. 外刊时文 2. 热词+短语 3. 高考链接--词汇运用 4. 长难句解析 5. 全文翻译 6. 高考链接--语法填空 一 外刊原文 Why Do Elevators Have Mirrors? Elevators have mirrors to serve as a distraction, helping people with claustrophobia. These mirrors are also helpful for people with wheelchairs, helping them enter and exit without much difficulty. The feeling of uneasiness and anxiety in an elevator is also known as claustrophobia. We have all experienced similar feelings at least once while using these machines, haven't we? Particularly if the doors don't open right away! This is a fear to which many people are subject, and it's challenging for these people to use elevators in their day-to-day lives. To overcome this problem, elevator manufacturing companies had two solutions: either increase the elevator's speed to reduce the time people spend inside the elevators or install mirrors. Mirrors were a possible solution because they serve as a distraction for people without resorting to the other method, which involved increasing elevator speed and adding more problems than it solved. Furthermore, mirrors make the elevator space seem larger than it is, helping claustrophobic people overcome their fears. When elevators were still in their infancy and pretty slow, people would stand in them and experience a heightened sense of time because they were idle. Their totally understandable dread of falling from an elevator dangling in midair by only wires was all they could think about. Therefore, mirrors were erected to give people something to gaze at while they waited and to divert their attention. Mirrors also allow you to see what everyone else is doing, which matters a lot when the 'safety' factor is considered. This capacity for observation prevents certain offenses, such as theft, unsolicited touching, or contact that might o