Whether the eyes are "the windows of the soul" is debatable; they are in- (1)______ tensely important in interpersonal communica

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问题     Whether the eyes are "the windows of the soul" is debatable; they are in- (1)______
tensely important in interpersonal communication is a fact. During the first two
months of a baby’s life, the stimuli that produces a smile is a pair of eyes. The (2)______
eyes need not to be real: a mask with two dots will produce a smile. Signifi- (3)______
cantly, a real human face with eyes covered will not motivate a smile, or will (4)______
the sight of only one eye when the face is presented on profile. This attrac- (5)______
tion to eyes opposed to the nose or mouth continues as the baby matures. (6)______
    In one study, when American four-year-old were asked to draw people, (7)______
75 percent of them drew people with mouths, and 99 percent of them drew (8)______
people with eyes. In Japan, furthermore, where babies are carried on their (9)______
mother’s back, infants do not acquire as much attachment to eyes like they (10)______
do in other cultures. As a result, Japanese adults make little use of the face
either to encode or decode meaning.
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答案old — olds

解析 用连字符连起的数个单词除了可以做一个名词的前置修饰语如a who-cares facial expression外,还可作名词,如:forget-me—not(勿忘我(一种植物的名称)),a four-year-old(一个四岁的孩子)。如果这样的结构作名词,它的复数形式一般可在第一个词或最后一个词后面加复数形式,如:men-of-war,runners—up,touch-me-nots,close-ups,原句中的four-year-old的复数是在old后加s。
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