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专业八级改错练习第31期
日期:2009-07-09

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Eye behavior can give subtle messages which people pick up in their daily life. It tells more than words can. Meeting or failing to meet another person's  eyes produce a particular effect.When two Americans __1

look searchingly at each other's eye, emotions are __2

heightened and the relationship becomes closer. However, Americans are careful about where and when to __3

 meet other's eye. In our normal conversation, each eye-contract lasts only a few seconds before one or both individuals look away, because the longer meeting of the eyes is rare, and, after it happens, can generate __4

a special kind of human-to-human awareness. For instance,by simple using his eyes, a man can make a woman aware of him comfortably or uncomfortably; a long and steady gaze from a policeman or judge intimidates accused. __5

In the U.S., proper street behavior requires a nice   balance of attention and inattention. You are supposed to look at a passer-by just enough to show that you are being aware of his presence. If you look too little, __6

you appear haughty; too much, inquisitive. Much eye behavior is such subtle that our reaction to it is __7

largely instinctive. Besides, the codes of eye behavior vary dramatically from one culture to other. In the __8

Middle East, it is impolite to look at the other person all the time during a conversation; in England, the polite listener fixes the speaker with an inattentive __9

stare and blinks eye occasionally as a sign of interest and attention. In America, eye behavior functions as a kind of conversational traffic signal control the __10

talking pace and time, and to indicate a change of topic.

 
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