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JABO ENGLISH COURSE – 12 SMA_PTN

FORMATIVE TEST 1
The messages (1) are communicated by the eyes vary depending on the duration,
direction, and quality of the eye behavior. For example, in every culture there are rather strict, though
unstated, rules for (2) . In much of England and the United States, for example, the average length
of gaze is 2.95 seconds. The average gaze of mutual gaze (two persons gazing each other) is 1.18 seconds.
When eye contact (3) short of this amount, you may think the person is uninterested, shy, or
preoccupied. When the appropriate amount of time is exceeded, you may perceive this as showing high
interest.
In much of the United States direct eye contact (4) an expression of honesty and
forthrightness. But the Japanese often view this movement as a lack of respect. They (5) at the
other person’s face rarely and then only for very short periods. In many Hispanic cultures, direct eye
contact signifies certain equality and so (6) be avoided by, say, children when speaking to a
person in authority. You also use eye contact to serve several important functions. You can use it to monitor
feedback. For example, when you talk to someone, you look at the person intently as if to say, “Well, what
do you think?” or “React to what I’ve just said.” When you speak with two or three people, you maintain eye
contact to secure attention and interest of your listeners.
Eye movement are of the used of compensate for increased physical distance. By making eye
contact, we overcome psychologically the physical distance between us. When we catch someone’s eye at a
party, for example, we become psychologically close even though we may be separated by considerable
physical distance. Eye contact and other expressions of psychological closeness (7) to vary in
proportion each other. The eyes, Sociologist Erving Goffman observed in International Ritual (1967), are
“great intruders.” When you avoid eye contact or avert your glance, you allow others to maintain their
privacy. You probably do this when you see a couple (8) in the street or on a bus. You turn your eyes as
if you say, “I don’t mean to intrude, I respect your privacy.” Goffman refers to this behavior as civil
intention.

1. a. who 3. a. fell 6. a. may

b. whom b. fall b. have to
c. whose c. falls c. had better
d. of which d. is falling d. must
e. which e. should
4. a. are considered
2. a. the proper duration of b. is considered 7. a. to be found
eye contact c. have been considered b. have been found
b. the duration of proper d. is being considered c. were found
eye contact e. would be considered d. had been found
c. the proper duration with e. are being found
eye contact 5. a. will glance
d. the duration proper to b. are glancing 8. a. arguing
eye contact c. have glanced b. argued
e. the eye contact of proper d. were glancing c. are arguing
duration e. glanced d. to argue
e. to be arguing

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