2.People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions--and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.
    Rachael Jack,University of Glasgow researcher,said that rather than scanning evenly(均勻的) across a face as Westerners do.Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.
"We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions,"Jack said."Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure,whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth."
    According to Jack and her colleagues,the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed.As a result,facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.
    The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories:happy,sad,surprised,fearful,disgusted,angry,or neutral.They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.
    It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners,"The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions,"Jack said."Our data suggests that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion,Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less."
    In short,the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion.From here on,examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion.Otherwise,when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures,Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.

51.The discovery shows that WesternersA.
A.pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth
B.consider facial expressions universally reliable
C.observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways
D.have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions
52.What were the people asked to do in the study?C
A.To make a face at each other.
B.To get their faces impressive.
C.To classify some face pictures.
D.To observe the researchers'faces.
53.What does the underlined word"they"in Paragraph 6 refer to?A
A.The participants in the study.
B.The researchers of the study.
C.The errors made during the study.
D.The data collected from the study.
54.In comparison with Westerners,Easterners are likely toC
A.do translation more successfully
B.study the mouth more frequently
C.examine the eyes more attentively
D.read facial expressions more correctly
55.What can be the best title for the passage?B
A.The Eye as the Window to the Soul
B.Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions
C.Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills
D.How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding.

分析 本文為科普說明文.主要介紹了最新的科學(xué)研究發(fā)現(xiàn):東方人比西方人更難于讀懂他人的面部表情.

解答 51.A.細(xì)節(jié)理解題:根據(jù)第三段"Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure,whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth."可知研究發(fā)現(xiàn)西方人同樣注重眼睛和嘴;故選A.
52.C.細(xì)節(jié)理解題:根據(jù)第五段"…by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of.expressive faces and put them into categories:happy,sad,surprised,fearful,disgusted,angry,or neutral."可知人們在研究中被要求對一些人臉圖片進行分類;故選C
53.A.詞義猜測題:根據(jù)定語從句"that they show"所修飾的 eye movements 在研究中為the participants 所作(從the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people"可知他們指的是參與者;故選A
54.C.細(xì)節(jié)理解題:根據(jù)第六段"It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners."可知比起西方人東方人會正在意眼睛;故選C
55.B.主旨大意題:根據(jù)最后一段From here on,examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion可知文化差異豐富了理解情感的基本社會技巧,即:不同的文化背景使人理解他人情感的方式也不盡相同.故選B

點評 考察學(xué)生的細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力,做細(xì)節(jié)理解題時一定要找到文章中的原句,和題干進行比較,再做出正確的選擇.在做推理判斷題不要以個人的主觀想象代替文章的事實,要根據(jù)文章事實進行合乎邏輯的推理判斷.

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