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Stressed About Coronavirus? Monitor Your Body Language

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other health professionals, have maintained that the recent coronavirus can be spread by touching people or surfaces infected by the virus, and then touching your face-particularly your mouth, nose, and eyes, where the virus can gain access to your body. No doubt, fears of this potentially deadly virus is causing people around the world a great deal of stress. 1.

You may have seen clips of health professionals warning about face-touching in press conferences, but then absent-mindedly touching their own faces-even licking a finger to turn a page on their written speeches! 2. Unfortunately, stress can increase the incidence of face-touching behavior.

A common body reaction to stress is self-touching. Some of that might consist of chin or cheek rubbing, which can bring infected fingers dangerously close to the mouth. Of course, there is also nail-biting, which provides the virus with direct access to the mouth.

Research on nonverbal signals of lying has focused on common body language signals connected with stress. 3. Stress from telling a lie has been associated with people touching their noses or faces. It has been suggested that temporary increases in tension or stress-such as when someone is telling a lie-may cause the nose to itch (发痒). This leads to response of scratching or rubbing the nose

Stress may also lead to dry eyes, mainly because the automatic reaction to fear-induced stress is to widen the eyes and blink less frequently, thus drying out our eyes. Our responses can include eye rubbing behavior-opening the way for the virus to enter our bodies.

Don’t get me started talking about greetings. 4. However, greeting behaviors such as touching hands (handshaking), cheek-kissing and hugging all open the door for viral transmission (病毒传播). Moving to more safe forms of greeting -waves, fist-bumps, or even bowing-should become the norm during these troubling times.

5. We need to become more aware of our nonverbal behavior and go into social situations more mindfully.

A.To sum up, what should we do?

B.Some of these same signals could lead to infection.

C.It is probably because they have been under too much stress.

D.In other words, nonverbal signals of stress might lead to infection.

E.That is why people may touch their noses or faces when telling a lie.

F.In social gatherings people almost automatically extend their hands or hug.

G.What’s worse many of our unconscious reactions to stress can lead to infection.

Answer

1.G

2.C

3.B

4.F

5.A

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。疾病控制和预防中心和其他卫生专业人员坚持认为，最近的冠状病毒可以通过接触受病毒感染的人或皮肤，然后触摸你的脸，特别是你的嘴、鼻子和眼睛来传播。对这种潜在致命病毒的恐惧正在给全世界的人们带来巨大的压力。更糟糕的是，我们对压力的许多无意识反应都会导致感染。文章就因为人们日常的肢体动作会导致感染进行了说明。

1.根据上文No doubt, fears of this potentially deadly virus is causing people around the world a great deal of stress.可知毫无疑问，对这种潜在致命病毒的恐惧给世界各地的人们带来了巨大的压力。结合后文中You may have seen clips of health professionals warning about face-touching in press conferences, but then absent-mindedly touching their own faces-even licking a finger to turn a page on their written speeches!可知你可能看过卫生专业人员在新闻发布会上警告触碰面部的片段，但随后却心不在焉地摸自己的脸——甚至舔手指来翻页他们的书面发言！由此可知，本句承接上文说明压力给人带来的影响，且后文的例子具体说明了：面对压力时无意识的反应可能会导致感染。故G选项“更糟糕的是，我们对压力的许多无意识反应会导致感染”符合上下文语境，故选G。

2.根据You may have seen clips of health professionals warning about face-touching in press conferences, but then absent-mindedly touching their own faces-even licking a finger to turn a page on their written speeches!可知你可能看过卫生专业人员在新闻发布会上警告触碰面部的片段，但随后却心不在焉地摸自己的脸——甚至舔手指来翻页他们的书面发言！由此可知，本句承接上文说明，卫生专业人员无意识地触碰自己的脸，甚至舔手指来翻页他们的书面发言的原因是他们承受了太大的压力。故C选项“这可能是因为他们承受了太大的压力”符合上下文语境，故选C。

3.根据后文Stress from telling a lie has been associated with people touching their noses or faces. It has been suggested that temporary increases in tension or stress-such as when someone is telling a lie-may cause the nose to itch. This leads to response of scratching or rubbing the nose.可知这些信号中的一些可能会导致感染。说谎带来的压力与人们触摸自己的鼻子或脸有关。有人认为，紧张或压力的暂时增加——比如有人说谎的时候——可能会导致鼻子痒。这就导致了抓挠或摩擦鼻子的反应。由此可知，与压力有关的常见肢体语言信号可能会导致人们去触碰自己的鼻子或脸，从而导致感染。上文中common body language signals可对应到B选项中Some of these same signals。故B选项“这些信号中的一些可能会导致感染”符合上下文语境，故选B。

4.根据上文Don’t get me started talking about greetings.可知更别说让我开始提到问候了。由此可知，本句应当承接上文说明人们互相问候的方式。故F选项“在社交场合，人们几乎会主动伸出手或拥抱”符合上下文语境，故选F。

5.本句位于文章最后一段，有总结全文的作用，结合后文We need to become more aware of our nonverbal behavior and go into social situations more mindfully.可知我们需要对自己的非语言行为有更多的意识，并更谨慎地进入社交场合。由此可知，后文中we可对应到A选项中what should we do?，且sum up有“总之”的意思，故A选项“总之，我们应该做什么？”符合上下文语境，故选A。