Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Body postures and movements are frequently indicators of self-confidence, energy, fatigue, or status. Cognitively, gestures operate to clarify, contradict, or replace verbal messages. Gestures also serve an important function with regard to regulating the flow of conversation. For example, if a student is talking about something in front of the class, single nods of the head from the teacher will likely cause that student to continue and perhaps more elaborate. Postures as well as gestures are used to indicate attitudes, status, affective moods, approval, deception, warmth, arid other variables related to conversation interaction. The saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” well describes the meaning of facial expressions. Facial appearance – including wrinkles, muscle tone, skin coloration, and eye color-offers enduring cues that reveal information about age, sex, race, ethnic origin, and status.
A less permanent second set of facial cues-including length of hair, hairstyle, cleanliness, and facial hairrelate to an individual’s idea of beauty. A third group of facial markers are momentary expressions that signal that cause changes in the forehead, eyebrows, eyelids, cheeks, nose, lips, and chin, such as raising the eyebrows, wrinkling the brow, curling the lip.
Some facial expressions are readily visible, while others are fleeting. Both types can positively or negatively reinforce the spoken words and convey cues concerning emotions and attitudes.
A nod of the head from the teacher will likely ask his student to __________ what he is saying.
A. go on
B. give up
C. put off
D. throwaway
Đáp án A
Một gật đầu từ giáo viên có thể sẽ giống như yêu cầu học sinh của mình _______ những gì nó đang nói.
A. tiếp tục B. từ bỏ C. tống khứ D. ném đi
Câu thứ 4 của đoạn đầu: “… if a student is talking about something in front of the class, single nods of the head from the teacher will likely cause that student to continue and perhaps more elaborate” (nếu một học sinh đang nói gì đó trước lớp học, những cái gật đầu của giáo viên sẽ có thể làm học sinh tiếp tục và có lẽ sẽ nói thêm nhiều hơn)