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. ____32____
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! ____33____ 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. ____34____ 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. ____35____ 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.
____36____ 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.
【答案】
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. ____32____
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! ____33____ 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. ____34____ 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. ____35____ 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.
____36____ 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.
【答案】
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