Proper arrangement of classroom space is important to encouraging interaction. Most of us have noticed how important physical setting is to efficiency and comfort when we work. Today’s corporations hire human engineering specialists and spend a great deal of time and money to make sure that the physical environments of buildings are fit to the activities of their inhabitants.
Similarly, college classroom space should be designed to encourage the activity of critical thinking. We will move into the twenty-first century, but step into almost any college classroom and you will step back in time at least a hundred years. Desks are normally in straight rows, so students can clearly see the teacher but not all their classmates. The assumption behind such an arrangement is obvious: Everything important comes from the teacher.
With a little imagination and effort, unless desks are fixed to the floor, the teacher can correct this situation and create space that enc
A. New kind of desks and chairs should be made.
B. Many companies are trying to improve the working settings for their employees.
C. Classroom interaction between students is essential to the training of critical thinking.
D. A comfortable environment leads to higher working efficiency.
These include design for reliability, design for serviceability, design for modularity and design for quality, which must be applied in the entire system.()
Proper street behavior in the United States requires a nice balance of attention and inattention. You are supposed to look at a (21) just enough to show that you’re (22) of his presence. If you look too little, you appear arrogant or furtive (鬼鬼祟祟的), too much, (23) you’re inquisitive. Usually what happens is that people (24) each other until they are about eight feet (25) , at which point both cast down their eyes. Sociologist Dr. Erving Goffman (26) this as "a kind of dimming of lights."
Much of eye behavior is so (27) that we react to it only on the intuitive level. The next time you have a (28) with someone who makes you feel liked, notice what he does with his eyes. (29) are he looks at you more often than is usual with (30) a little longer than the normal. You interpret this as a sign of a polite one (31) he is interested in you as a person (32)
A. interviewers
B. applicants
C. subjects
D. psychologists
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