【正文】 大鯢一般 棲習于海拔 200 至。s smi li ng face. They shook hand and then ki ssed each other twi ce on each chek, since that i s the France custom when adul ts m eet peopl e they know. Ahm ed Azi z, on the contrary, si mpl y nodded at the gi rl s. Men from Mi ddl e Eastern and other Musli m countri es wil l often stand qui te cl ose to other m en to tal k but wil l usual ly not touch wom en. As I get to know m ore i nternati onal fri ends, I l earn more about thi s cul tural “body l anguage”. Not al l cul tures greet each other the sam e way, nor are they fortabl e in the sam e way wi th touchi ng or di stance betwen peopl e. In the sam e way that peopl e m unicate wi th spoken language, they al so express thei r feel i ngs usi ng unspoken “l(fā) anguage” through physical di stance, acti ons or posture. Engli sh peopl e, for exam pl e, do not usual ly stand very cl ose to others or touch strangers as son as they m eet. H owever, peopl e from places li ke Spai n, Ital y or South Am eri can countri es approach others cl osel y and are m ore li kely to touch them. Most peopl e around the worl d now greet each other by shaking hands, but som e cul tures use other greeti ngs as wel , such as the Japanese, who prefer to bow. These acti ons are not good or bad, but are si m pl y ways i n whi ch cul tures have devel oped. I have seen, however, that cul tural customs for body language are very general not al m em bers of a cul ture behave i n the same way. In general, though, studying i nternati onal custom s can certai nl y hel p avoi d di ffi cul ti es i n today’s worl d cultural crossroads! Showi ng our feeli ngs Body l anguage i s one of the m ost powerful s of m uni cati on, often even m ore powerful than spoken l anguage. Peopl e around the worl d show al l knds of feeli ngs, wi shes and atti tudes that they m i ght never speak al oud. It i s possi bl e to “read” others around us, even i f they do not i ntend for us to catch thei r unspoken m uni cati on. O f course, body l anguage can be mi sread, but m any gestures and acti ons are uni versal . The m ost uni versal faci al expresi on i s, of course, the smi l e – i t’s functi on is to show happi ness and to people at ease. It does not al ways m eans that we are trul y happy, however. Smi l es around the worl d can be fal se, hidi ng other feel i ngs l i ke anger, fear or worry. There are unhapy smi l es, such as when som eone “l(fā) oses face” and sm il es to hi de it. H owever, the general purpose of sm il i ng i s to show good feel i ngs. From the ti me we are babi e, we show unhappi ness or anger by frowning. In m ost pl aces around the worl d, frowni ng and turni ng one’s back to som eone show anger. Maki ng a fi st and shaki ng i t al om ost m eans that som eone i s angry and threateni ng another person. There are m any ways around the worl d to show agreem ent, but noddi ng the head up and down s for agreem ent alm ost worl dwi de. M ost peopl e al so understand that shaki ng the head from si de to si de m eans di sagreem ent or refusal . H ow about showi ng that I am bored? Looki ng away from peopl e or yawni ng wil l, i n m ost cases, m ake m e appear to be uni nterested. H owever, i f I turn toward and look at som eone or somethi ng, peopl e from al most every culture wil l think that I am i nterested. If I rol my eyes and turn my head away, I most l ikely do not beli eve what I am hearing or do not l ike i t. Bei ng respectful to peopl e i s subjective, besed on each cul ture, but i n general i t is probabl y not a good idea to gi ve a hug to a boss or teacher. In al most every culture, i t i s not usual ly good to stand too close to someone of a higher rank. Standi ng at a little distance wi th open hands wil l show that I am wi l ing to l isten. Wi th so m any cul tural began with a report on the excel l ent noodl e harvest i n the south Swi tzerl and. The program me m enti oned two reasons for the good crop: an unusual l y warm wi nter and the di sapearance of the i nsect that attacked the nodl e crop every year. The reporter showed m any noodle trees wi th the farm ers pul ing nodl es off them and putti ng them into baskets. The peopl e watchi ng were tol d that they may not have heard of noodl es from thi s part of the worl d because noodl es were grown as part of sm al famil y busi neses. The programm e m akers m akers reali zed that peopl e mi ght wonder why noodl es were al ways the sam e si ze so that they expl ained that “i t was the resul t of m any years’ pati ent research wi th the tree to produce noodl es of exactl y the sam e l ength.” But even so they expl ained, the li fe of a noodl e farm er was not easy. “The last two weeks of March are an anxi ous ti me for noodl e farm ers. There i s al ways a chance of very col d weather spoi li ng thei r crop. Then i t is di ffi cult for them to get top prices on the m arkets.” Many peopl e i n Engl and beli eved thi s story. They rang the BBC to fi nd out hoe to grow thei r own noodl e tree. They were tol d to “pl ace a pi ece of noodl e i n a ti n of tom ato sauce and hope for the best. ” Thi s m ay seem very si l y, but i n the 1950s very few Bri ti sh peopl e travel ed aboard for thei r hol i days and even fewer of them ate noodl es. So i t seem ed possi bl e to im agi ne that noodl es grew on tree li ke appl es, pears and nuts. Peopl e al so trusted the Panoram a programm e for its careful research and seri ous i nform ation. So they were shocked to fi nd the next day that they had al l bel i eved an April Fool’s joke. Even today the report of the noodl e harvest is rem em bered as one of the best April Fool’s jokes ever! Unit 4 Com m unication: No Pr oblem ? Yesterday, another student and I, representi ng our universi ty’s student associ ati on, went to the Capi tal Internati onal Ai rport to m eet thi s year’s i nternational students. They were i ng to study at Bei jing Uni versi ty. We shoul d tak