HSG. TEST 3- Cloze test 1

THE TRUTH BEHIND A SMILE

People smile a great deal, and we seem to know instinctively that some smiles are more genuine than others. But is there any scientific (1) __________ for this?

• sign

• basis

• root

• fact

Recent research suggests that a  mechanism in the brain can help us (2) __________ whether a smile is really heartfelt - or whether

• recollect

•  accept

• admit

• recognize

it is just being (3) __________ on for show.

• put

• brought

• created

• stuck

According to various long-held traditions, a genuine smile involves the eyes as well as the mouth. In the nineteenth century, a French anatomist (4) __________ to prove this.

• got down

• set out

• went off

• carried out

He used electrodes to stimulate the facial muscles of volunteers, (5) __________  creating false smiles.

• despite

• thereby

• however

• nonetheless

He found that real smiles were always (6) __________ with the contraction of a muscle around the eye, but that his artificially induced ones were not.

• associated

• mixed

• joined 

•  accompanied

During more recent research, volunteers were shown a variety of human facial (7) __________ and their reactions to these were monitored.

• exhibitions

• resemblances

• appearances

•  expressions

When they were shown a happy face, 35% of the volunteers immediately started looking at the eye area, checking for tell-tale crinkles that would (8) __________ that the smile was genuine; but when shown a sad or neutral face, they did not.

• assure

• confirm

• justify

• approve

So why did the human brain evolve to distinguish between real and false smiles? It could be that this ability to (9) __________ a quick assessment of a smile has an important role to play in successful communication.

• make

• earn

• do

• hold

A genuine smile (10) __________ as a gesture of conciliation in conflict, and it's important to know whether we are really being offered a truce or not.

• aims

• serves

• portrays

• applies