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Passage ThreeAnother cultural aspect of nonverbal communication is one that you might not thinkabout: space. Every person perceives himself to have a sort of invisible shield surroundinghis physical body. When someone comes too close, he feels uncomfortable. When he bumpsonto someone, he feels obligated to apologize. But the size of a person’s “comfort zone”depends on his cultural ethnic origin. For example, in casual conversation, many Americansstand about four feet apart. In other words, they like to keep each other “at arm’s length”,people in Latin or Arab cultures, in contrast, stand very close to each other, and touch eachother often. If someone from one of those cultures stands too close to an American while inconversation, the American may feel uncomfortable and back away.When Americans are talking, they expect others to respond to what they are saying. ToAmericans, polite conversationalists empathize by displaying expressions of excitement ordisgust, shock or sadness. People with a “poker face”, whose emotions are hidden by adeadpan expression, are looked upon with suspicion. Americans also indicate theirattentiveness in a conversation by raising their eyebrows, nodding, smiling politely andmaintaining good eye contact. Whereas some cultures view direct eye contact as impolite orthreatening, Americans see it as a sign of genuineness and honesty. If a person doesn’t lookyou in the eye, American might say, you should question his motives—or assume that hedoesn’t like you. Yet with all the concern for eye contact, Americans still considerstaring—especially at strangers—to be rude.
51. What the author discussed in the previous section is most probably about______.
(A)classification of nonverbal communication
(B)the reasons why people should think about space
(C)the relationship between communication and space
(D)some other cultural aspects of nonverbal communication

參考答案

答案：A
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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