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1、【考前必备】托福阅读背景材料-Are You Looking at Me?在我们的托福备考过程中，想要提高托福阅读水平最好方法莫过于增加自己的阅读量。而在与此同时，除了托福真题和 TPO 的一些练习之外，许多阅读素材中的词汇积累也是会为大家带来很多帮助的。那么，下面我们就为大家带来一些托福阅读素材，希望能为你的备考带来帮助。托福阅读背景材料：Are You Looking at Me? 眼睛是心灵的窗户，人与人的目光交流有时候胜得过千言万语。下面的新托福考试阅读练习资料就来说说目光交流为什么很重要。 You know how eye contact is a pretty important
2、component of interacting with people,right? So scientists recently tested this by measuring peoples brain activity as they responded to pictures of angry people and pictures of people who look afraid. It turns out that eye contact plays an important role when people are evaluating potential threats.
3、If we measured your brain activity, wed see that the part of their brain that regulates emotions and detects potential threats is hard at work. On the other hand, if Ive been scowling at something else, like this microphone, this wouldnt have bothered you nearly as much. And the exact opposite is tr
4、ue for fear. If I was staring at something and looking really frightened, your brain would work harder to figure out if whatever is scaring me may also pose a danger to you.Eye contact means different things in different situations. If youre mad and looking at someone, you might be a threat. But if
5、youre scared and looking at me, its unlikely that youre going to attack. So what the study suggests is that when youre studying emotions, you have to take eye contact into consideration. It also suggests that in ambiguous situations, your brain has to do more work to process other peoples facial expressions in order to be able to evaluate the situation and respond appropriately.
