The role of eye contact in a conversational exchange between two Americans

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问题     The role of eye contact in a conversational exchange between two Ameri
cans is well defined; speakers make a contact with the eyes of their listener (1)______
for about one second, then glances away as they talk; in a few moments they (2)______
reestablish eye contact with the listener or ensure the selves that their audience (3)______
is still tentative, then shift their gaze away once more. Listeners, furthermore, (4)______(5)______
keep their eyes on the face of the speaker, allow themselves (6)___
to glance only briefly. It is important that they be looking at the speaker (7)______
at the precise moment the speaker reestablishes eye contact; if they are not (8)______
looking, the speaker assumes that they are disinterested and will pause until (9)______
eye contact is resumed or will terminate the conversation. Just how critical
this eye maneuvering is to the maintenance of conversational flow become (10)______
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. [br] (3)

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答案 ensure — reassure

解析 这里用ensure犯了近义词混淆的错误:ensure和assure都有“保证,使……放心”的意思,但ensure后面不接人,而是ensure sth.或ensure that,如:to ensure the supremacyof the National Party,ensure that it is written into your contract…assure后面往往接人,常接assure sb.that/of这样的结构,如:He hastened to assure me that there was nothingtraumatic to report.They argued that Mr.Mandela must assure himself of broad—based blacksupport.这里从意思上来看还应将assure变为reassure,因为说话人是“再次确认听者在注意听”,它与前面的reestablish相呼应。
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