Question

Jan Hargrave is a body language expert in America. I was very pleased to hear Jan Hargrave speak the other day. She explained that although our mouths may lie(撒謊), our bodies do not. For the most part, we all have the ability to tell when people are lying to us by reading their tone of voice and body signals.

It was Professor Albert Mehrabian who discovered that we express our feelings and attitudes（態度）with 55 percent body languages, 38 percent tone of voice and only 7 percent actual words. In other words, if I asked you how you were doing and you said “fine”, that word wouldn’t mean anything by itself. It would be your body signals and how you said it that would let me know how you were really doing.

So, can you tell when people are lying to you? Jan Hargrave says we lie with the right side of your brains, so it is our left hand that tips us off. A person touching his nose, pulling at his ear or rubbing his eye with his left hand might be lying to you. Also, a person who, in a way crosses fingers might just be lying.

Here are some things we do to shut people out. We continually look at our watch. We fail to make eye contact. We fail to look up from the paper or away from the TV. Our body is leaning away from them.

By paying attention, we can open these important lines of communication and see the truth more clearly. I think it would be a mistake to use these tools to control or lie to people, but we need to realize the signals we are giving, so we can show people that they really do matter to us.

1.Which tells us the most truth by Professor Albert?

A. actual words B. tone of voice

C. body language D. eye contact

2.What does the underlined sentence “it is our left hand that tips us off” in the third paragraph mean?

A. Our left hand is more faithful（忠誠的） than our right hand.

B. Our left hand is connected with the right side of our brains.

C. Our left hand can tell people that we are lying.

D. Our left hand shows our feelings in a negative(消極的) way.

3.Which of the following do we do to shut people out, according to the fourth paragraph?

a. look at our watch continually

b. fail to look up from the TV

c. stare at people for a long time

d. lean away from people

A. abc. B. abd. C. acd. D. bcd.

4.What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?

A. To advise people to act more than they speak.

B. To compare different body signals.

C. To explain how people express their feelings.

D. To make people realize the importance of body language.

Answer 1

1.C

2.C

3.B

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：簡·哈格雷夫是一位美國的肢體語言專家。我很高興聽到簡·哈格雷夫的演講。她解釋說, 雖然嘴里可能撒謊, 但是我們的身體不會。在大多數情況下,我們通過閱讀人們的語調和身體信號都有能力知道人們是否撒謊。

1.艾伯特教授告訴我們什么是最真實的？聯系原文：It was Professor Albert Mehrabian who discovered that we express our feelings and attitudes（態度）with 55 percent body languages, 38 percent tone of voice and only 7 percent actual words. 句意：艾伯特教授發現, 我們表達我們的感情和態度中有55%的身體語言, 38%的語氣,只有7%實際單詞。明確是肢體語言是最真實的。故選C

2. can you tell when people are lying to you? Jan Hargrave says we lie with the right side of your brains, so it is our left hand that tips us off.句意：所以, 你能講出人們什么時候對你撒謊嗎? 簡·哈格雷夫說, 說謊用你大腦的右側, 所以我們的左手, 提示我們這一點。聯系選項第三項符合：我們的左手與我們的右腦聯接。故選 C

3. are some things we do to shut people out. We continually look at our watch. We fail to make eye contact. We fail to look up from the paper or away from the TV. Our body is leaning away from them.句意：做這些事情的人，人們可以將他們排除。我們不斷地看看我們的手表, 我們無法進行眼神交流。我們不能向上看或遠離電視。我們的身體傾斜遠離他們。結合選項與之對應的只有第二項。故選B

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考點：新聞報道類短文閱讀。