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Reаd the fоllоwing pаssаge then answer the questiоn. The eyes themselves can send several kinds of messages. Meeting someone's glance with your eyes is usually a sign of involvement, whereas looking away often signals a desire to avoid contact. This is why solicitors on the street-panhandlers, salespeople, petitioners-try to catch our eye. Once they've managed to establish contact with a glance, it becomes harder for the approached person to draw away. Most of us remember trying to avoid a question we didn't understand by glancing away from the teacher. At times like these we usually became very interested in our textbooks, fingernails, the clock-anything but the teacher's stare. Of course, the teacher always seemed to know the meaning of this nonverbal behavior, and ended up calling on those of us who signaled our uncertainty. Another kind of message the eyes communicate is a positive or negative attitude. When someone glances toward us with the proper facial expression, we get a clear message that the looker is interested in us-hence the expression "making eyes." At the same time, when our long glances toward someone else are avoided by that person, we can be pretty sure that the other person isn't as interested in us as we are in him or her. (Of course, there are all sorts of courtship games in which the receiver of a glance pretends not to notice any message by glancing away, yet signals interest with some other part of the body.) The eyes communicate both dominance and submission. We've all played the game of trying to stare somebody down, and in real life there are also times when downcast eyes are a sign of giving in. In some religious orders, for example, subordinate members are expected to keep their eyes downcast when addressing a superior. According to the author, avoiding the eyes of someone who is giving us long glances....
Chооse the letter оf the inference thаt is most firmly bаsed on the given fаcts. Symbols can be classified in two basic ways. Referential symbols are those which denote real objects in the external world. The word "door" is a referential symbol: it refers to an object or a class of objects whose existence in the external world can be objectively proven. If someone asks you what a door is, you can simply point to a door. Expressive symbols, on the other hand, refer to things or events that cannot be established in the external world. The meanings they communicate are often emotional and highly personal. The word "god" is an expressive symbol. To some it may evoke feelings of love and brotherhood; to others it may evoke fear; to still others it may carry no particular emotional meaning.
Chооse the letter оf the inference thаt is most firmly bаsed on the given fаcts. Overconfidence stems partly from our human tendency to seek information that supports our ideas, rather than proving them wrong. Reflecting on many experiments, on psychology researcher reports that once people have a wrong idea, they often will not budge from their illogic. Ordinary people, the researcher says, avoid the facts and become inconsistent. They defend themselves against the threat of new information that will shed light on the issue.
Chооse the letter оf the inference thаt is most firmly bаsed on the given fаcts. The dog snarled fiercely when it heard the door open, but when Tom walked in, it rolled onto its back to let Tom scratch its belly.