Eye behavior, involving varieties of eye-contact, can give subtlemessages which people pick up in their daily life. Warm looks or coldstares tell more than words can. Meeting or failing to meet anotherperson’s eye produce a particular effect. When two Americans look 63. ______.searchingly at each other’s eye, emotions are heightened and the 64. ______.relationship becomes closer. However, Americans are careful about where 65. ______.and when to meet other’s eye. In our normal conversation, each eyecontact lasts only a few seconds before one or both individuals look away,because the longer meeting of the eyes is rare, and after it happens, can 66. ______.generate a special kind of human-to-human awareness. For instance, bysimply using his eyes. a man can make a woman aware of him comfortablyor uncomfortably; a long and steady gaze from a policeman or judge 67. ______.intimidates accused. In the U.S. proper street behavior requires a nicebalance of attention and inattention. You are supposed to look at a passer- 68. ______.by just enough to show that you are being aware of his presence. If youlook too little, you appear haughty; too much, inquisitive. Much eye 69. ______.behavior is such subtle that our reaction to it is largely instinctive.Besides, the codes of eye behavior vary dramatically from one culture to 70. ______.other. In the Middle east, it is impolite to look at other person all the timeduring a conversation; in England, the polite listener fixes the speaker 71. ______.with an inattentive stare and blinks eyes occasionally as a sign of interestand attention. In America, eye behavior functions as a kind of 72. ______.conversational traffic signal control the talking pace and time, and toindicate a change of topic. If you can understand this vital mechanism ofinterpersonal relations, the basic American idiom is there. 71()
I’m interested in the criminal justice system of our country. It seems to me that something has to be done, if we’re to (37) as a country. I certainly don’t know what the answers to our problems are. Things certainly get (38) in a hurry when you get into them, but I wonder if something couldn’t be done to deal with some of these problems. One thing I’m concerned about is our practice of putting (39) in jail who haven’t harmed anyone. Why not work out some system (40) they can pay back the debts they owe society instead of (41) another debt by going to prison and, of course, coming under the (42) of hardened criminals. I’m also concerned about the short prison sentences people are (43) for serious crimes. Of course one alternative to this is to (44) capital punishment, but I’m not sure I would be for that. I’m not sure it’s right to take an eye for eye. (45) . I also think we must do something about the insanity plea. In my opinion, anyone who takes another person’s life intentionally is insane, however, (46) It’s sad, of course, that a person may have to spend the rest of his life, or (47) . 47()