文档介绍：阅读测试（十）
Section A
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. extremely
B. aggressive
C. curious
D. threat
E. communicates
F. situation
G. typically
H. different
I. contact
J. signals
Exchange a glance with someone, then look away. Do you realize that you have made a statement?
Hold the glance for a second longer, and you have made a _1— statement. Hold it for 3 seconds, and the meaning has changed again. For every social situation, there is a permissible time that you can hold a person's gaze without being rude, or _2—. If you are on an elevator, what gaze-time are you permitted? To answer this question, consider what you _3_ do. You very likely give other passengers a quick glance to size them up and to assure them that you mean no __4_. Since being close to another person signals the possibility of interaction, you need to send out a signal telling others you want to be left alone. So you cut off eye _5_, what sociologist Erving Goffman (1963) calls "a dimming of the lights." You look down at the floor, at the indicator lights, anywhere but into another passenger's eyes. Should you break the rule against staring at a stranger on an elevator, you will make the other person _6_ uncomfortable, and you are likely to feel a bit strange yourself.
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