Eye behavior, involving varieties of eye-contact, can give subtle
messages which people pick up in their daily life. Warm looks or cold
stares tell more than words can. Meeting or failing to meet another
person's eye produce a particular effect. When two Americans look 【S1】______.
searchingly at each other's eye, emotions are heightened and the 【S2】______.
relationship becomes closer. However, Americans are careful about where 【S3】______.
and when to meet other's eye. In our normal conversation, each eye
contact 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 【S4】______.
generate a special kind of human-to-human awareness. For instance, by
simply using his eyes. a man can make a woman aware of him comfortably
or uncomfortably; a long and steady gaze from a policeman or judge 【S5】______.
intimidates accused. In the U.S. proper street behavior. requires a nice
balance of attention and inattention. You are supposed to look at a passer- 【S6】______.
by just enough to show that you are being aware of his presence. If you
look too little, you appear haughty; too much, inquisitive. Much eye 【S7】______.
behavior. is such subtle that our reaction to it is largely instinctive.
Besides, the codes of eye behavior. vary dramatically from one culture to 【S8】______.
other. In the Middle east, it is impolite to look at other person all the time
during a conversation; in England, the polite listener fixes the speaker 【S9】______.
with an inattentive stare and blinks eyes occasionally as a sign of interest
and attention. In America, eye behavior. functions as a kind of 【S10】______.
conversational traffic signal control the talking pace and time, and to
indicate a change of topic. If you can understand this vital mechanism of
interpersonal relations, the basic American idiom is there.
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