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Why does nearly everyone instantly look more attractive with sunglasses on? You know you’re at least a little curious. And so was Vanessa Brown, a senior lecturer of art and design at Nottingham Trent University in the U.K. Her research focuses on the meaning we assign to everyday objects, and in her academic book that’s coming out early next year, she explores the cultural and psychological relationship between sunglasses and our modern idea of “cool”. In an e-mail to Science of Us, Brown explained what her research has uncovered about why most of us look better in shades.

Sunglasses do make your face look better. Put on a pair of sunglasses, and there’ll be instant symmetry（对称）! The dark lenses cover up any non-symmetrical features around your eyes, and research on facial attractiveness shows a clear link between symmetry and our ideas of beauty.

Many of the snap judgments we form about people come from looking them in the eyes. “The eyes are such a tremendous source of information for the human being,” Brown explained. Eye contact helps us form judgments about someone’s intelligence, confidence, and sincerity, and sunglasses keep us literally in the dark about forming those perceptions about a person. A recent study showed that people who wore sunglasses acted more selfishly and dishonestly than those wearing eyeglasses, which, the researchers argue, suggests that sunglasses cheat us into feeling more unknown.

Sunglasses are a relatively modern everyday accessory. Sales started to pick up in the 1920s, but they didn’t become commonplace until about two decades after that. In their early days sunglasses were primarily used during risky water and snow sports, and were also associated with new technologies like airplane travel, which made them seem “daring and thoroughly modern”.

Soon after that, Hollywood stars of the 1950s and 1960s started wearing sunglasses to defend themselves from being recognized by the public or harassed by paparazzi（*仔队）, whose flashbulbs would often explode violently, sometimes literally in their faces. But regardless of practicality, movie stars’ adoption of the sunglasses strengthened the link between sunglasses and attractiveness.

28. We know from Paragraph 1 that Vanessa Brown       .

  A. is an expert on designing sunglasses  

  B. keeps regular contact with Science of Us

  C. is a senior lecture of history in a university

  D. will have a book published next year

29. How is the second paragraph developed?

A. By following time order.                         B. By making comparisons.

C. By making classifications.                        D. By providing explanations.

30. According to the last two paragraphs, sunglasses       .

  A. came into being in the 1920s                    

B. began to get popular in the 1940s

  C. was mainly used in airplane travel in the past

D. got popular with stars immediately after they appeared

31. What is the passage mainly about?

A. The reasons sunglasses make people look fashionable.

B. The relationship between sunglasses and dishonest people.

C. The historical development of sunglasses.

D. The role sunglasses play in our daily life.

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