Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions:

You can usually tell when your friends are happy or angry by the looks on their faces or by their actions. This is useful because reading their emotional expressions helps you to know how to respond to them. Emotions have evolved to help us respond to important situations and to convey our intentions to others. But does raising the eyebrows and rounding the mouth say the same thing in Minneapolis as it does in Madagascar? Much research on emotional expressions has centered on such questions. According to Paul Ekman, the leading researcher in this area, people speak and understand substantially the same “facial language”. Studies by Ekman’s group have demonstrated that humans share a set of universal emotional expressions that testify to the common biological heritage of the human species. Smiles, for example, signal happiness and frowns indicate sadness on the faces of people in such far- flung places as Argentina, Japan, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Sumatra, the United States, Vietnam, the jungles of New Guinea, and the Eskimo villages north of Artic Circle. Ekman and his colleagues claim that people everywhere can recognize at least seven basic emotions: sadness, fear, anger, disgust, contempt, happiness, and surprise. There are, however, huge differences across cultures in both the context and intensity of emotional displays - the so called display rules. In many Asian cultures, for example, children are taught to control emotional responses - especially negative ones- while many American children are encouraged to express their feelings more openly. Regardless of culture, however, emotions usually show themselves, to some degree, in people’s behavior. From their first days of life, babies produce facial expressions that communicate their feelings. The ability to read facial expressions develops early, too. Very young children pay close attention to facial expressions, and by age five, they nearly equal adults in their skill at reading emotions on people’s faces. This evidence all points to a biological underpinning for our abilities to express and interpret a basic set of human emotions. Moreover, as Charles Darwin pointed out over a century ago, some emotional expressions seem to appear across species boundaries. Cross - cultural psychologists tell us that certain emotional responses carry different meanings in different cultures. For example, what emotion do you suppose might be conveyed by sticking out your tongue? For Americans, this might indicate disgust, while in China it can signify surprise. Likewise, a grin on an American face may indicate joy, while on a Japanese face it may just as easily mean embarrassment. Clearly, culture influences emotional expressions.

Question: The best title for the passage is ________.         

A.

A: ways to control emotional expressions

B.

B: cultural universals in emotional expressions

C.

C: human habit of displaying emotions

D.

D: review of research on emotional expressions

Đáp án và lời giải
Đáp án:B
Lời giải:

Đáp án B

Dịch nghĩa: Nhan đề phù hợp nhất cho bài viết là ________.

A. Các cách để điều khiển cảm xúc

B. Những điểm chung giữa các nền văn hóa về biểu cảm

C. Thói quen của con người khi thể hiện cảm xúc

D. Nhận xét về cách bài nghiên cứu biểu cảm

Giải thích: Bài viết tập trung nói về biểu cảm (ngay từ đoạn 1 tác giả đã giới thiệu về việc nghiên cứu xem liệu những biểu cảm có thể hiện những ý nghĩa giống nhau ở các địa điểm khác nhau không. Sau đó đi sâu chi tiết trong đoạn 2 và 3). Các phương án khác thì hoàn toàn không được nói trong bài.  

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