同等学力英语阅读五种题型之二

atement. Hold it for 3 seconds, and the meaning has changed again. For every social situation, there is a permissible time that you can hold a person’s gaze without being intimate, rude, or aggressive. If you are on an elevator, what gaze-time are you permitted? To answer this question, consider what you typically do. You very likely give other passengers a quick glance to size them up（打量）and to assure them that you mean no threat. Since being close to another person signals the possibility of interaction. You need to emit a signal telling others you want to be left alone. So you cut off eye contact, what sociologist Erving Goffman (1963) calls “a dimming of the lights”? You look down at the floor, at the indicator lights, anywhere but into another passenger’s eyes. Should you break the rule against staring at a stranger on an elevator, you will make the other person exceedingly uncomfortable, and you are likely to feel a bit strange yourself.

 

问题：By “a dimming of the lights” (Para.1, Line 10) Erving Goffman means “____”?

A) closing one’s eyes       

B) turning off the lights

C) ceasing to glance at others

D) reducing gaze-time to the minimum

 

[解析]

所考词组在文中的相关句为“So you cut off eye contact, what sociologist Erving Goffman (1963) calls ‘a dimming of the lights.’”由其中的“calls”可知‘a dimming of the lights.’是：“… cut