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Whether the eyes are "the windows of the soul" is debatable; they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a fa

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问题     Whether the eyes are "the windows of the soul" is debatable; they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a fact. During the first two months of a baby’s life, the stimulus that produces a smile is a pair of eyes. The eyes need not be real: a mask with two dots will produce a smile. Significantly, a real human face with eyes covered will not motivate a smile, nor will the sight of only one eye when the face is presented in profile. This attraction to eyes as opposed to the nose or mouth continues as the baby matures. In one study, when American four-year-olds were asked to draw people, 75 percent of them drew people with mouths, but 99 percent of them drew people with eyes. In Japan, however, where babies are carried on their mother’s back, infants do not acquire as much attachment to eyes as they do in other cultures. As a result, Japanese adults make little use of the face either to encode or decode meaning. In fact, Argyle reveals that the "proper place to focus one’s gaze during a conversation in Japan is on the neck of one’s conversation partner. " The role of eye contact in a conversational exchange between two Americans is well defined: speakers make contact with the eyes of their listener for about one second, then glance away as they talk; in a few moments they re-establish eye contact with the listener to reassure themselves that their audience is still attentive, then shift their gaze away once more. Listeners, meanwhile, keep their eyes on the face of the speaker, allowing themselves to glance away only briefly. It is important that they be looking at the speaker at the precise moment when the speaker re-establishes eye contact: if they are not looking, the speaker assumes that they are disinterested and either will pause until eye contact is resumed or will terminate the conversation. Just how critical this eye maneuvering is to the maintenance of conversational flow becomes evident when two speakers are wearing dark glasses: there may be a sort of traffic jam of words caused by interruption, false starts, and unpredictable pauses.
Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the given passage?
选项 A、Japanese adults hardly use eye contact either to convey or to comprehend information.
B、A real human face with eyes covered won’t motivate a smile of a baby.
C、Attentions on eyes are to be weakened when the other sense organs become mature with a baby’s grown up.
D、How crucial eye maneuvering is to the maintenance of conversational flow gets easier to understand when two speakers are wearing dark glasses.
答案C
解析 文章第1段第5句讲，眼睛相对于鼻子和嘴的重要性并没有随着年龄的增长而改变，同时后面还提供了相应的支持数据，故答案为C项。
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