岩手医科大学英語2013年第3問

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Whenever I'm teaching people about “body language, “this question is invariably asked ”Joe, what got you interested in (    1    ) nonverbal behavior in the first place?” It wasn't (    2    ) I had planned to do, (    3    ) was it the result of some long-term fascination with the topic. It was much more down-to-earth than that. It was an interest born of necessity, the need to (   4    )successfully to a totally new way of (   5    ). When I was eight years old, I came to America as an exile from Cuba. We left just a few months after the Bay of Pigs invasion, and we honestly (    6    )we would be here only for a short while as refugees.

Unable to speak English at first, I did what (   7    ) of other immigrants coming to this country have (   8     ). I quickly learned that to fit (    9    ) with my new classmates at school, I needed to be aware of-and sensitive to-the “other” language around me, the language of nonverbal behavior. I found that was a language I could translate and understand (   10    ). In my young (   11   ), I saw the human body as a kind of billboard that transmitted(advertised)what a person was thinking via gestures, facial expressions, and (   12    ) movements that I could read.

(出典 Joe Navarro. What Every BODY Is Saying. HarperCollins Publishers, 2008.)
    (注)
  • invariably, いつも;
  • fascination, 魅惑;
  • down-to-earth, 現実的な;
  • exile, 亡命者;
  • invasion, 侵略;
  • refugee, 難民;
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