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Questionsarebasedonthefollowingpassage:
Weusebothwordsandgesturestoexpressourfeelings,buttheproblemisthatthesewordsandgesturescanbeunderstoodindifferentways.
Itistruethatasmilemeansthesamethingsinanylanguages.Sodoeslaughterorcrying.
Therearealsoanumberofstrikingsimilaritiesinthewaydifferentanimalsshowthesamefeeling.
Dogs,tigersandhumans,forexample,oftenshowtheirteethwhentheyareangry.Thisisprobablybecausetheyarebornwiththesebehaviorpatterns.
Fearisanotheremotionthatisshowninmuchthesamewayallovertheworld.InChineseandinEnglishliterature,aphraselike"hewentpaleandbegantotremble"suggeststhatthemaniseitherveryafraidorhehasjustgotaverybigshock.However,"heopenedhiseyeswide"isusedtosuggestangerinChinesewhereasinEnglishitmeanssurprise.InChinese"surprise"canbedescribedinaphraseliketheystretchedouttheirtongues[StickingoutyourtongueinEnglishisaninsultinggestureorexpressesstrongdislike.
Eveninthesameculture,peopledifferinabilitytounderstandandexpressfeelings.
ExperimentsinAmericahaveshownthatwomenareusuallybetterthanmenatrecognizingfear,anger,loveandhappinessonpeople'sfaces.Otherstudiesshowthatolderpeopleusuallyfinditeasiertorecognizeorunderstandbodylanguagethanyoungpeopledo.
Accordingtothepassage,( ). A.wecanhardlyunderstandwhatpeople'sgesturesmean
B.wecannotoftenbesurewhatpeoplemeanwhentheydescribedtheirfeelinginwordsorgestures
C.wordscanbebetterunderstoodbyolderpeople
D.gesturescanbeunderstoodbymostofthepeoplewhilewordscannot
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