专业八级改错练习 第53期

【练习】

Whether the eyes are "the windows of the soul" is debatable;they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a __1

fact. During the first two months of a baby's life, the stimuli that __2

produces a smile is a pair of eyes. The eyes need not to be real: a __3

mask with two dots will produce a smile. Significantly, a real human face with eyes covered will not motivate a smile, or will the sight of __4

only one eye when the face is presented on profile. This attraction to __5

eyes opposed to the nose or mouth continues as the baby matures. __6

In one study, when American four-year-old were asked to draw __7

people, 75 percent of them drew people with mouths, and 99 percent __8

of them drew people with eyes. In Japan, furthermore, where babies __9

are carried on their mother's back, infants do not acquire as much attachment to eyes like they do in other cultures. As a result, __10

Japanese adults make little use of the face either to encode or decode meaning.