2011年上海奉贤区高三英语二模【含答案】.docVIP

奉贤区调研测试（2011，04 ）Section B 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. focus B. examining C. expressive D. communication E. significantly F. neglect G. distinguishing H. reliably I. recognition J. considerate People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in 41 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 (均匀地) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners 42 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 43 the mouth.” According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human 44 of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to 45 convey emotion in a cross-cultural situation. The researchers studied cultural differences in the 46 of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western people and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of 47 faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral (中立的). 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 48 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 expr