Whether the eyes are ""the windows of the soul"" is debatable; they are in-

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问题     Whether the eyes are ""the windows of the soul"" is debatable; they are in- 【M1】______
tensely important in interpersonal communication is a fact. During the first two
months of a baby’s life, the stimuli that produces a smile is a pair of eyes. The 【M2】______
eyes need not to be real: a mask with two dots will produce a smile. Signifi- 【M3】______
cantly, a real human face with eyes covered will not motivate a smile, or will 【M4】______
the sight of only one eye when the face is presented on profile. This attrac- 【M5】______
tion to eyes opposed to the nose or mouth continues as the baby matures. 【M6】______
    In one study, when American four-year-old were asked to draw people, 【M7】______
75 percent of them drew people with mouths, and 99 percent of them drew 【M8】______
people with eyes. In Japan, furthermore, where babies are carried on their 【M9】______
mother’s back, infants do not acquire as much attachment to eyes like they 【M10】______
do in other cultures. As a result, Japanese adults make little use of the face
either to encode or decode meaning. [br] 【M7】

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答案 old — olds

解析 用连字符连起的数个单词除了可以做一个名词的前置修饰语如a who-cares facial expression外,还可作名词,如:forget-me—not(勿忘我(一种植物的名称)),a four-year-old(一个四岁的孩子)。如果这样的结构作名词,它的复数形式一般可在第一个词或最后一个词后面加复数形式,如:men-of-war,runners—up,touch-me-nots,close-ups,原句中的four-year-old的复数是在old后加s。
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