READ THE PASSAGE AND CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER FROM A, B, C OR D

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SECTION C: READING

I. Read the passage and choose the best answer from A, B, C or D.

In the United States and Canada, it is very important to look a person

directly in the eyes when you are having a conversation with him or her. If you

look down or to the side when the other person is talking, that person will think

that you are not interested in what he or she is saying. This, of course, is not polite.

If you look down or to the side when you are talking, you may appear to be hiding

something; that is, it might seem that you are not honest. However, people who are

speaking will sometimes look away for a few seconds when they are thinking or

trying to find the right word. But they always run immediately back to look the

listener directly in the eyes. These social “rules” are the same for two men, two

women, a man and a woman, or an adult and a child.