1．People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions-and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why．
Rachael Jack，University of Glasgow researcher，said that rather than scanning evenly（均勻的） across a face as Westerners do，Easterners fix their attention on the eyes．
"We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions，"Jack said．"Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure，whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect （忽略） the mouth．"
According to Jack and her colleagues，the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed．As a result，facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations．
The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13Western Caucasian and 13East Asian people while they observed pictures of．expressive faces and put them into categories：happy，sad，surprised，fearful，disgusted，angry，or neutral．They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies．
It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners．"The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions，"Jack said．"Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion，Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less．"
In short，the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion．From here on，examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion．Otherwise，when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures，Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation．
66．The discovery shows that WesternersA．
A．pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth
B．consider facial expressions universally reliable
C．observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways
D．have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions
67．What were the people asked to do in the study？C
A．To make a face at each other．B．To get their faces impressive．
C．To classify some face pictures．D．To observe the researchers'faces．
68．What does the underlined word"they"in Paragraph 6refer to？A
A．The participants in the study．
B．The researchers of the study．
C．The errors made during the study．
D．The data collected from the study．
69．In comparison with Westerners，Easterners are likely toC．
A．do translation more successfully
B．study the mouth more frequently
C．examine the eyes more attentively
D．read facial expressions more correctly
70．What can be the best title for the passage？B
A．The Eye as the Window to the Soul
B．Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions
C．Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills
D．How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding．
分析 本文是科普說明文，主要敘述了經(jīng)過研究發(fā)現(xiàn)東方人與西方人看不同的面貌特征看面部表情是不同的，而西方人用全臉來表達情感東方人多用眼睛來表達情感而嘴使用更少，簡而言之這個數(shù)據(jù)表明，面部表情并不普遍的人類情感的信號．面部表情并不普遍的人類情感的信號．
解答 66．A 細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)第三段第2行"Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure"可知，西方人看眼睛和嘴，故選A．
67．C 推理判斷題．根據(jù)第五段第三行"they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories"可知，那些人被邀請過去是為了對面部表情進行分類的，故選C．
68．A 推理判斷題．根據(jù)第四段中"The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13Western Caucasian and 13East Asian people while they observed pictures of．"可知，they就是指參加實驗的那些東西方人，故選A．
69．C 細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)倒數(shù)第2段最后三行"Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion，Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less．"可知，東方人多用眼睛來表達情感而嘴使用相對少．
70．B 主旨大意題．通讀全文可知文章正是關(guān)于理解情緒方面的東西方文化差異的問題，故選B．
點評 解答細節(jié)理解題時，一個常用的方法就是運用定位法，即根據(jù)題干和選項中的關(guān)鍵詞從原文中找到相關(guān)的句子，與選項進行比較從而確定答案；推理判斷題既要求學生透過文章表面文字信息推測文章隱含意思，又要求學生對作者的態(tài)度、意圖及文章細節(jié)的發(fā)展作正確的推理判斷，力求從作者的角度去考慮，不要固守自己的看法或觀點．
