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How to read a politicians mind? Try looking at his hands If you want to know when a politician is burying bad news, here is a handy hint. A study of body language has found leaders tend to signal good news by pointing with their dominant hand—but gesture gloomy tidings with their weaker hand. It means a right-handed politician, such as Nick Clegg, will wave his right hand when passing on positive news, while a left-hander—such as David Cameron—will gesture with his left. The Dutch researchers say the discovery does not just help voters tell if their politicians are trying to disguise their meaning. They say the difference in the way left and right-handed leaders gesture could also explain the unlikely number of left-handers in office. Five out of six of the most recent presidents of America have been southpaws, far exceeding chance, they said. Dr Daniel Casasanto of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics said: Since the dawn of the television era, we have had many, many more left-handers in presidential office than we should expect according to their prevalence in the population. The left-handed candidates used left hand gestures when making positive statements—and right hand gestures when being negative. The opposite pattern was found in right-handed candidates, he reports in the journal PLoS One. He believes voters subconsciously note which hand their leaders are using. He said: Right-handers automatically think “good stuff” is on the right, and “lefties” think “good stuff” is on the left, and vice versa. When we see someone on television that is a mirror image. 1．[教材原句]．..I saw several young people enter the waiting area looking around curiously.(U4P26) [真题呈现](2010·天津，5)People have always been________about exactly how life on earth began. A．curious　　　　　　　　 B．excited C．anxious D．careful [考题巧解] 解析：句意：人们总是对地球上的生命的确切起源感到好奇。be curious about“对……感到好奇”；be anxious about“为……担心，渴望……”；be careful about“对……小心”。根据句意，A项正确。 答案：A 2．[教材原句]However, people from pl