高中英语外刊阅读语法填空October 15 1我们在与人交谈时，为什么很难保持眼神接触？ It turns out we're not just awkward, our brains 1 (actual) can't handle the tasks of thinking of the right words and focusing on a face at 2 same time. The effect becomes more noticeable when someone is trying to come up with less familiar words, 3 is thought to use the same mental resources as sustaining eye contact. Scientists from Tokyo University in Japan put this to the test in 2016 by 4 (have) 26 volunteers play word association games while staring at computer-generated faces. When making eye contact, the participants found 5 harder to come up with links between words. "Although eye contact and verbal processing appear 6 (independence), people frequently avert(避 开)their eyes from interlocutors (对话者) during conversation/' wrote the researchers. "This suggests that there is interference（干扰）between these processes." The volunteers 7 （test） while looking at both animations of faces making eye contact and animations of faces looking away. They were also asked to think of links between easily associated words and words where there are a lot of competing associations. For example, thinking of a verb for 'knife' is relatively easy, because you can't do much more than cut or stab with one. Coming up with 8 associated verb for 'folder'（文件夫）is harder, considering you could open, close, or fill them. The volunteers
