Whether the eyes are "the windows of the soul" is debatable;they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a__1__ fact. During the first two months of a baby's life, thestimuli that __2__ produces a smile is a pair of eyes. The eyesneed not to be real: a __3__ mask with two dots will produce asmile. Significantly, a real human face with eyes covered willnot motivate a smile, or will the sight of __4__ only one eyewhen the face is presented on profile. This attraction to __5__ eyes opposed to the nose ormouth continues as the baby matures. __6__ In one study, when American four-year-old wereasked to draw __7__ people, 75 percent of them drew people with mouths, and 99 percent__8__ of them drew people with eyes. In Japan, furthermore, where babies __9__ are carried ontheir mother's back, infants do not acquire as much attachment to eyes like they do in othercultures. As a result, __10__ Japanese adults make little use of the face either to encode or decode meaning.
參考答案及解析:
1.^they-that.分句後的分句應有它獨立的主謂結構,正像它前面的結構壹樣。而後半句的謂語是is,表語是fact,主語似乎是缺失的,因此在they前面加上that就構成了主語從句作為這半句的主語。
2.stimuli-stimulus.stimuli看似單數實則是stimulus的復數形式,因此應改為stimulus。
3.to-/.這裏的need作情態動詞,因此刪去to。
4.or-nor.並列的否定,用否定形式nor表示倒裝。
5.on-in.in profile表示 ?側面,從側面?。如:The painting shows her in profile。
6.^opposed-as.opposed前應使用連詞as引導比較分句。
7.old-olds.由謂語的復數形式可以看出這裏需要用復數形式four-year-olds。
8. and-but
9.furthermore-however.上壹句話指明美國文化中眼睛的重要性,而這壹句話似乎指出日本文化中眼睛並不具有同樣的重要性,因此兩句話的關系是轉折而不是遞進。
10.like-as.句子中有壹個as?as比較結構。