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1、Module 3 Foreign Food Body Language and Non-verbal Communication (建议用时40分钟). 阅读理解AWhat is the best way to catch someone who is telling a lie? What if the person appears to be nervous? Is the person unable to look me in the eye? Is he or she looking around the room? What about other nervous movements
2、, such as fidgeting or shifting from side to side? Many peoplefrom parents to police officers and airport security personneldepend on this method. But does a persons body and face reveal the truth? Not according to a new study. Talking, it seems, is the best way to smoke out a liar. That is what res
3、earchers in the United Kingdom found out recently. Their investigation took place at one place where lying can get you into big troublean airport. The researchers asked volunteers to pretend they were real passengers and then lie to airport security agents. Some of the agents used spoken conversatio
4、n-based methods to question these make-believe passengers. Others depended instead on the persons body language, like lack of eye contact and showing signs of nervousness. The agents talking with the passengers were 20 times more likely to catch the liars. The study found that these conversation-bas
5、ed techniques can help you recognize when a person is lying to you. Like many methods, this conversation method has a name. It is called Controlled Cognitive Engagement or CCE, for short. The British government partly financed this study. The American Psychological Association published the findings
6、. Using body language and facial expressions to catch someone in a lie is really hard. And it only works, seemingly, by chance. Thomas Ormerod reported that the“suspicious-signs method”or using body language“almost completely fails”in finding lies. In the conversational CCE method, security agents j
7、ust talk with passengers. They ask about informal things as you would in a normal conversation. While talking, the agents might ask questions about topics that are seemingly unrelated. What they also observe is their way of speaking changes. In an article, Ormerod says that for actual passengers, th
8、ey are“just chatting about themselves. It shouldnt feel like an examination. ”【文章大意】本文是一篇说明文。主要介绍了研究人员借助身势语, 来判断一个人是否是一个撒谎者的情况。1. The questions asked in Para. 1 are used to show_. A. the examples of some body languagesB. the traditional way of catching a liarC. the reasons for telling a lieD. the me
9、aning of some facial expressions【解析】选B。推理判断题。根据第一段可知, 本段中提到了很多的问题, 而这些问题都是传统的发现撒谎者的方法。2. How did the researchers make the study? A. By asking passengers some questions. B. By talking with airport security personnel. C. By comparing the different body languages. D. By observing the passengerssigns of
10、 nervousness. 【解析】选C。细节理解题。根据第四段的The researchers asked volunteers. . . Others depended instead on the persons body language, like lack of eye contact and showing signs of nervousness可知, 通过观察人们的身势语。3. What statement may Ormerod agree to? A. It is hard to talk a liar out. B. A liar likes talking about
11、 themselves. C. Suspicious-signs method is effective. D. Body languages cant be trusted. 【解析】选D。推理判断题。根据倒数第三段的the“suspicious-signs method”or using body language“almost completely fails”in finding lies. 可知, 利用身势语来判断一个人是否是撒谎者, 是不可靠的。4. What might be the suitable title for the passage? A. Can you catch
12、 a liar? B. Do you tell a lie to others? C. Are you nervous in lying? D. Will you put up with a liar? 【解析】选A。标题归纳题。本文主要介绍了研究者们对于如何判断撒谎者, 尤其是借助人们的身势语来判断撒谎者的可靠性等的研究。BThis may be one of the few occasions where death doesnt seem to be such a horrible thing. Yang Jiang, a renowned Chinese author and tran
13、slator, passed away on May 25 in Beijing at the age of 104. It is a great loss for Chinese literature. But for her, its probably like going home. After losing her daughter Qian Yuan in 1997 and her husbandthe well-known writer and poet Qian Zhongshuin 1998, Yang described the toll death has affected
14、 her life. “We three have separated, leaving only me behind to clean up the scene, ”Yang wrote in her book We Three(我们仨), which was published in 2004. “I am alone, missing us three. ”The spouse(配偶)of an influential scholar like Qian Zhongshu, who wrote the masterpiece Fortress Besieged(围城), could ha
15、ve easily been overshadowed. But Yang was not. Even Qian himself described her as“the most chaste wife as well as the most talented girl”in China, a place where it was once believed to be impossible for a woman to be both a wife and a gifted scholar. One of Yangs best-known novels is 1998s Baptism(洗
16、澡). With“her patent style of irony and wit”, Yang described how Chinese intellectuals(知识分子)adjusted to the new social order brought by the“Cultural Revolution(19661976)”, commented David Der-wei Wang, a professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University. “Even when political fervor and human cruelty is being observed, Yang Jiang never loses her sense of humor and compass
