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TouchingAnthropologists tell us that each of us walks around inside “bubbles of personal space.” The sizeof the bubble represents our personal territory, territorial imperative, or “personal buffer zone.” Weneither like nor tolerate it when someone invades our bubble. As we travel to different places around theworld, we learn that some cultural bubbles are larger or smaller than others. The American “bubble”extends about 12 to 15 inches, and so we may stand a combined 24 to 30 inches apart. Scientists pointout this just happens to be an arm’s length away. One could stretch out his arm and put his thumb in theother person’s ear.Orientals, and especially the Japanese, stand even farther apart, anthropologist George Renwickadds. When it comes to ordinary business or social situations, they have the largest bubbles of all.However, in their own public settings, where crowding is impossible to avoid, they accept body contactor just seem to ignore it, “touching without feeling.”Latins and Middle Easterners, on the other hand, stand much closer than Americans. They maystand, literally, toe-to-toe. They may even place a hand on the other’s forearm or elbow, or even fingerthe lapel of the other person.However, touch codes are changing all over the world. In the United States, politicians havelearned the value of touch. They frequently give two-handed handshakes, casually touch the elbow ofanother, or lightly touch the back of the person standing next to them. “Pressing flesh” has become abyword on political campaigns. Also, Japanese managers posted in the U.S. factories are steelingthemselves and learning to accept finger-crunching handshakes, back patting, and maybe even a friendlyarm around the shoulders for the softball team photo.
76 What does “bubble” mean in the passage?
(A)the balloon in public settings the toy for social situations
(B)
(C)the physical distance between people the territory of
(D) anthropologists

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

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