内容正文:
高一英语·秋季
Lesson 7
Gap filling (Grammar) & Translation (1)
Question Type
Cloze
【语篇类型】说明文
【主题】社会服务与人际沟通
The Best (and Worst) Way to Spot a Liar
Thomas Ormerod's team of security officers faced a seemingly impossible task. At airports across Europe, they were asked to interview passengers on their backgrounds and travel plans. Ormerod had planted a handful of people arriving at security with a _____1_____ history and a made-up future — and his team had to guess who they were. In fact, just one in 1,000 of the people they interviewed would _____2_____ them. Identifying the liar should have been about as easy as finding a needle in a haystack(干草堆).
So, what did they do? One option would be to focus on body language, right? It would have been a bad idea. Study after study has found that _____3_____ — even by trained police officers — to read lies from body language and facial expressions are not much better than _____4_____. For most people, they might as well just flip a coin.
Ormerod's team tried something _____5_____ — and managed to identify the fake passengers in the vast majority of cases. Their secret? To throw away many of the accepted cues to deception (骗术) and start afresh with some _____6_____ techniques.
Most previous studies had focused on reading a liar's intentions via their body language or from their _____7_____ — blushing (涨红的) cheeks, a nervous laugh, darting (飘忽的) eyes. The idea, says Timothy Levine at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, was that the act of lying causes some _____8_____ emotions- nerves, guilt, perhaps even excitement - that are difficult to contain. Even if we think we have a poker face, we might still _____9_____ tiny flickers of movement known as “micro-expressions.”
Yet the more psychologists looked, the harder it appeared to understand any _____10_____ clues. The problem is the huge _____11_____ of human behavior. With _____12_____, you might be able to spot a friend's tics (面部肌肉的抽搐) whenever they are telling the truth, but