6 . Communications technologies are an inevitable part in our life. But they are far from________when it comes to conveying the truth. The first study to compare________across a range of communications media has found that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails.

The fact that emails are automatically ________ and can come back to cause you problems-appears to be key to the finding.

Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, asked 30 students to keep a Communications________for a week. In it they noted the number of conversations or email exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes, and________how many lies they told.

Hancock then worked out the number of lies per conversation for each ________. He found that lies made up 14 per cent of emails, 21 per cent of instant messages, 27 per cent of face-to-face interactions and 37 per cent of phone calls.

His results, to be presented at the conference on human-computer interaction in Vienna, Austria, in April have________ psychologists. Some expected emailers to be the biggest liars, reasoning that because________makes people uncomfortable, the detachment (分离）of emailing would make it easier to lie.

Others expected people to lie more in face-to-face exchanges because we are most________at that form of communication. But Hancock says it is also ________ whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time.

People appear to be________to lie when they know the communication could later be used to hold them to account, he says. This is why fewer lies appear in email than on the phone.

People are also more likely to lie in ________-in an instant message or phone call, say-than if they have time to think of a response, says Hancock. He found many lies are________responses to an unexpected demand, such as :“Do you like my dress?”

Hancock hopes his research will help companies work out the best ways for their employees to communicate. ________, the phone might be the best medium for sales where employees are encouraged to stretch the truth.

But given his results, work evaluations, where honesty is a priority, might be best done using________.

For many of us, there’s nothing better than burying our head ina good book. Whether it’s a gripping crime story or a biography of someone’s amazing life., it’s good to read a book to    1     off from the distractions of everyday life and help us relax. Maybe that’s why some of them are actually being prescribed as a     2    to sickness.

It may seem obvious that reading is good for us. It can be educational, and, as some say, it can“broaden the mind'. A good novel can make us happy or sad, or make us cry as we     3    with characters. The power of books was     4    a few years ago by the British charity Reading Agency, who published a list of books that doctors could offer to patients, tackling topics from depression to dementia to chronic pain. It called this 'bibliotherapy' and it's become so successful that it ’s about to be     5     to children as well.

Professor Philip Davis studies the     6     of literature at Liverpool University and is author of a book called Reading for Life. He studies people in reading groups and found that it's reading literature-written work thought to have artistic merit, that has the best effect. He told the BBC that when reading something for pleasure, “…the brain begins to work from different parts, from a different hemisphere and it gets excited, it gets pre-emotional - and you can see the brain coming to life.”

Of course, it's easy in our smartphone generation to ditch a good book and fiddle with our phone instead. But opening up a paperback could be a simple way to help boost or    7     our mental health. It’s thought they can help you set targets and find    8    . And they may allow you to see that awkward situation you've been anxious about for weeks from someone else's    9    .

If you're not an avid reader it can be hard to know where to begin. If the Reading Agency book list doesn't     10    , you could read book reviews, visit a library or bookshop or ask a friend. Once you've found the right text, you'll be hooked! And if you still Iove your technology, you could always use an e-reader.