【推荐2】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Body language seems quiet and secret, but it speaks louder than words and can be 1 (powerful) language of all! According to specialists, our bodies send out more message than we realize. In fact, non-verbal communication takes up about 50% of 2 we really mean.
And body language is particularly important when we attempt 3 (communicate) across culture. Indeed, what is called body language is so much a part of us 4 it’s actually often unnoticed. And misunderstandings occur as a result of it. For example, different societies treat the distance 5 people in a different way. Northern Europeans usually do not like having bodily contact even with friends, certainly not with strangers. People from Latin American countries, on the other hand, touch each other quite a lot. Therefore, it’s possible that in conversation it may look like a Latino 6 (follow) a Norwegian all over the room. The Latino, 7 (try) to express friendship, will keep moving closer. The Norwegian, 8 very probably sees this as pushiness, will keep backing away — which the Latino will in return regard as coldness.
Clearly, a great deal is going on when people talk, and only a part of it is in the words 9 . And when parties are from different cultures, there’s a strong possibility of misunderstanding. But 10 the situation is, the best advice is to obey the Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be treated.
