All of us communicate with one another nonverbally (不使用言语地), as well as with words. Most of the time, we are not aware that we are doing it. We gesture with eyebrows or a hand, meet someone else’s eyes and look away, change positions in a chair. These actions we assume are occasional. However in recent years researchers have discovered that there’ is a system to them almost as consistent (一致的) and understandable as language.
One important kind of body language is eye behavior. Americans are Careful about how and when they meet one another’s eyes. In our normal conversation, each eye contact lasts only about a second before one or both of us look away. When two Americans look searchingly into each other’s eyes, they become more intimate. Therefore, we carefully avoid this, except in suitable situations.
Researchers who are engaged in the study of communication through body movement are not prepared to spell out a precise vocabulary of gestur
A. study of communication through body movement is a new science
B. body movements are as important as words in communication
C. all of us communicate with one another
D. eye behavior is the most important part in body language
All of us communicate with one another
non-verbally, as well as with words. Most of the time we’re not aware that we’re
doing it. We gesture with eyebrows or a hand, meet someone else’s eyes and look
away, shift positions in a chair. These actions we assume are random and
incidental. But researchers have discovered in recent years that there is a sys-
tem to them almost as consistent and comprehensible as language. Every culture has its own body language, and children absorb its nuances along with spoken language. A Frenchman talks and moves in French. The way an Englishman crosses his legs is nothing like the way a male American does it. In talking, Americans are apt to end a statement with a droop of the head or hand, a lowering of the eyelids. They wind up a question with a lift of the hand, a lift of the chin or a widening of A. the body language differs in each area B. the body language can express the people’s mind C. people’s gestures represent the people’s character D. the body language is the same as the language 我来回答: 提交
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