Eye behavior, involving varieties of eye-contact, can give subtle messages which people pick up in their daily life.Warm looks or cold stares tell more than words can. Meeting or failing to meet another person's eye produce a particular__1__ effect. When two American look searchingly at each other's __2__ eye, emotions are heightened and the relationship becomes closer. However, Americans are careful about where and __3__ when to meet other's eye. In our normal conversation, each eye-contact 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 a special kind of __4__ human-to-human awareness. For instance, by simply 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 accursed. In the US proper street behavior requires__5__ 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 __6__ of his presence. If you look too little, you appear haughty; too much, inquisitive. Much eye behavior is such subtle that our __7__ reaction to it is 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 stare and blinks eyes occasionally__9__ 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. If you can understand this vital mechanism of interpersonal relations,the basic American idiom is there./ Z, E8 d4 ]0 t8 v! M4 E" N, Z
答案:$ @0 ~; s; O0 E+ e: }+ i
1. produce—produces。两个主语meeting和failing to meet another person's eye 用or连接,谓语动词通常和最邻近的主语一致
9 Q9 X% D( [& j7 l 2. at—into.表示方式的状语searchingly暗示应该是“注视”(look into),而不是一般的“看”(look at)
; O, D0 b5 f; M: z* b 3. where—how.根据上下文应为eye contact的方式方法问题1 t ?! r3 K% s9 X
4. after—when/if.应为条件/假设状语从句,而不是时间状语从句) B- d3 {) A4 {0 ?1 L& p8 f
5. 在accused前加the.形容词或过去分词前加定冠词,表示一类人,此处the accused为“被告”
8 W F1 W: o2 Q4 K3 e" `+ S 6. 删除being.本文谈的是一般的情形,不需用正在进行时
7 {% W, k X0 v5 y# E' N; h, } 7. such—so.注意so和such在用法上的差异,so+adj./adv.+that; such+n.+that1 |8 w( n, S& J: Z$ E( n
8.other—another.常用句法结构为one...another
! y9 t/ i. d! t) q6 \5 q 9. inattentive—attentive.根据英国文化,礼貌的做法是交谈过程中,倾听对方说法时应该用专注的眼神注视说话的人,以表示兴趣,礼貌和关注
+ H) S+ {8 j7 i% y 10. 在control前加to.不定式to control the talking pace and time和to indicate a change of topic一起作conversational traffic signal定语 |