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People from EastAsia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishingfacial expressions. A new report explains why. Jack and his colleagues fromUniversity of Glasgow discovered that rather than scanning evenly across a faceas Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes. Jack said,"Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereasEasterners favor the eyes and neglect the mouth."

The researchersstudied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions byrecording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian peoplewhile they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories:happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared howaccurately participants read those facial expressions using their particulareye movement strategies.

It turned out thatEasterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantlymore errors than did Westerners. "The cultural difference in eye movementsthat they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facialexpressions," Jack said. "Our data suggest that whereas Westernersuse the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouthless."

In short, the datashow that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. Fromhere on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic socialskills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comesto communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will findthemselves lost in translation.

单选题

Accordingto this research, Easterners ______.

【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】

细节题。根据第三段中的第一句话“It turned out that Easternersfocused much greater attention on the eyes…”可知,东方人主要关注人的眼睛,故A项正确。其他三项均与原文不符。

单选题

Which of thefollowing about the study is not correct?

【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】

细节题。根据第三段的描述可知,这项研究的参与人数是26人,主要内容是让他们观察图片,并且按照不同类型对图片进行分类,目的是通过记录参与者的眼球运动来研究西方人和东方人识别面部表情的文化差异问题。B、C、D项均表述正确。A项整项研究持续的时间在文中没有提到,故本题选A。

单选题

The lastparagraph tells us ______.

【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】

推断题。定位至最后一段,由本段第一句话“In short,the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of humanemotion.”可知,面部表情在不同的文化中具有差异性,并不是通用的。故B项正确。其他三项均表述有误。

单选题

The tone of thepassage is ______.

【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】

推断题。文章首先指出了科学研究的一项最新发现——东方人比西方人更难识别人的面部表情,并解释了原因。之后具体介绍了这项研究的过程、结果及原因:东方人主要关注眼睛,而西方人关注的是包括眼睛和嘴在内的整个面部表情。最后总结了不同的文化背景使人理解他人情感的方式也不尽相同。由此可见这篇文章的表达口吻是客观的。故选C。