According to the passage, a conversation between two Americans may break down due to ________.

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• 1According to the passage, the Japanese fix their gaze on their conversation partner’s neck because ________.

  A.they don’t like to keep their eyes on the face of the speaker

  B.they need not communicate through eye contact

  C.they don’t think it polite to have eye contact

  D.they didn’t have much opportunity to communicate through eye contact in babyhood

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• 2Babies will not be stimulated to smile by a person ________.

  A.whose front view is fully perceived

  B.whose face is covered with a mask

  C.whose face is seen from the side

  D.whose face is free of any covering

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• 3The author is convinced that the eyes are ________.

  A.of extreme importance in expressing feelings and exchanging ideas

  B.something through which one can see a person’s inner world

  C.of considerable significance in making conversations interesting

  D.something the value of which is largely a matter of long debate

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• 4In this passage, the author focuses on ________.

  A.the difficulty of a biographer in finding the proper perspective to do his job

  B.the secret of a biographer to win more readers

  C.the techniques required of a biographer to write a food biography

  D.the characteristics of different kinds of biographies

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• 5An unauthorized biography is likely to attract more readers because ________.

  A.it portrays the subject both faithfully and vividly

  B.it contains interesting information about the subject’s private life

  C.it reveals a lot of accurate details unknown to outsiders

  D.it usually gives a sympathetic description of the subject’s character

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• 6To keep a conversation flowing smoothly, it is better for the participants ________.

  A.not to wear dark spectacles

  B.not to make any interruptions

  C.not to glance away from each other

  D.not to make unpredictable pauses

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• 7By ________ computation, he estimated that the repairs on the house would cost him a thousand dollars.

  A.coarse

  B.rude

  C.crude

  D.rough

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• 8Your story about the frog turning into a prince is ________ nonsense.

  A.sheer

  B.shear

  C.shield

  D.sheet

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• 9I could see that my wife was ________ having that fur coat, whether I approved of it or not.

  A.adequate for

  B.intent on

  C.short of

  D.deficient in

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• 10The ________ runner can run 2 miles in fifteen minutes.

  A.common

  B.usual

  C.average

  D.general

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