单选题
Proper street behavior in the United States requires a nice balance of attention and inattention. You are supposed to look at a
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just enough to show that you"re
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of his presence. If you look too little, you appear haughty (目中无人的) or furtive (诡秘的), too much
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you are inquisitive. Usually what happens is that people
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each other until they are about eight feet
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, at which point both cast down their eyes. Sociologist Erving Goffman
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this as "a kind of dimming of lights".
Much of eye behavior is so
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that we react to it only on the intuitive level. The next time you have a
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with someone who makes you feel liked, notice what he does with his eyes.
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are he looks at you more often than is usual with
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a little longer than the normal. You interpret this as a sign—a polite one
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he is interested in you as a person
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just in the topic of conversation. Probably you also feel that he is both
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and sincere.
All this has been demonstrated in elaborate
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. Subjects sit and talk in the psychologists laboratory,
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of the fact that their eye behavior is being
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from a one way vision screen. In one fairly typical experiment,
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were induced to cheat while performing a task, then were
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and observed. It was found that those who had
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met the interviewers eyes less often than was
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, an indication that "shifty eyes" —to use the mystery writers stock phrase—can actually be a tip off to an attempt to deceive or to feelings of guilt.
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查形容词的词义和辨析。A项aware“知道的，有意识的”；B项curious“好奇的”；C项ignorant“不知道的”；D项uneasy“不安的”。此空后面有一个介词of，根据上下文，此处应填入一个后面可以连接of的形容词。B、D两项后面不接of，curious和uneasy后面可以接about，构成短语：be curious about...表示“对……感到好奇”，如：Children are curious about everything. 儿童对什么都感到好奇；be uneasy about...“为……担忧”，如：be uneasy about the future对前途担忧。因此，从语法上可首先排除这两项。ignorant后面可以接of，构成短语：be ignorant of，意思是“不知道……”，如：His parents were kept ignorant of the fact that he failed in the examination. 关于他考试不及格这件事，他父母还蒙在鼓里。但是填入句子，不符合语意逻辑，故不是正确答案。aware可以和of构成搭配：be aware of...，表示“意识到……”如：They became aware of a peculiar smell in the room. 他们发觉房间里有一股特别的气味。填入此空，符合句意“假如你看见一个路人，看着他，并使他意识到你在看着他”因此A为正确答案。
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查名词的词义。A项discussion表示“讨论”；B项communication“交流”；C项greeting指“问候；致敬”；D项conversation“交谈；对话”。此空前面有动词have，C项不能与have搭配，因此可排除掉；剩余三项都可以和have搭配，但是本段倒数第二句提到“just in the topic of conversation”，因此空格中应该填入D，而不是discussion或communication。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查名词的词义。根据上下文，前句说“下一次，你若碰上一个你感兴趣的人，并与之交谈，注意他眼睛的动作”。根据推理，下句就会谈到可能出现的“动作”，因此空格中应填入一个表示“可能性”的词。B项possibilities意思为“可能性”，但是经常以单数的形式出现，如：There is a possibility that...，而不能用于possibilities are...，所以可排除掉。C项opportunities意为“机会”，D项expectations意为“期望，预期”，两者从意思上均不符合句意；也非正确答案。A项chances除了表示“机会”外，还可表示“可能性”，而且可用于以下句型：There is a/the chance that...和chances are...。因此正确答案为A项。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查上下文的语意逻辑关系。本段讨论的是眼睛的微妙动作。由上文“notice what he does with his eyes”可推断，空格中不可能填入B项touches“触摸”；因为空格所在的句子是对句子前一部分中“看(looks at)”这一动作的进一步说明，因此C项talks不恰当；D项sights意为“视力，视觉”，用在句子中也与句意不合；而应选择A项glances“匆匆看”。整个句子的意思是“他看你的次数很可能比通常时候多，匆匆看你的时间也比正常时候长”
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查上下文的衔接与连贯。A项other than“除了”；B项rather than“而不是”；C项better than“比……好”；D项less than“比……少”。由上文“he looks at you more often than is usual with glances a little longer than the normal”和“he is interested in you as a person”可推断，对方是对你而不是对谈话的主题感兴趣，因此B为正确答案。其他选项均与上文不符合。
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查动词的词义和用法。A项inquired表示“询问，打听”，后接about/of，如：inquire of sb. about sth.向某人打听某事，I inquired of all that were present. 我向所有在场的人打听。B项interviewed表示“面谈，采访”，如：I wanted to interview him for the
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about his many questions.我要代表《箴言报》采访他，了解有关他研究工作的事。C项investigated意为“调查”，如：Scientists investigate nature to learn more about it. 为了更多地了解自然界，科学家对它进行了调查研究。D项interfered指“干涉，妨碍”，后接in/with，本句概括的是某一实验的过程。由下文中的“the interviewer"s eyes”可获得线索，空格中最为恰当的词应是B项interviewed“采访；面试”。A项inquire“询问”，D项interfered“干预”，两者从意义和语法角度看均不合适。C项investigated“调查”，用在句子中也不符合上下文意思的要求。
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查形容词的辨析。A项common指“普通的，共同的”；B项average指“通常的，一般的”；C项ordinary指“普通的”；D项normal指“正常的”。根据句意，空格中应填入D项normal。句中的意思是“与正常人(normal)相比，那些在试验中作弊的人(who had cheated)与测试者(interviewers)的目光接触相对要少”。