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Politicians, business bosses, and other types of leaders indeed tend to like speaking with their hands, but does the habit influence how others interpret those words? A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and other organizations sought to find out the answer. In a 2021 paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group detailed a series of experiments on volunteers who viewed videos of people speaking with and without hand movements.
After showing the volunteers videos of people speaking under different conditions, the researchers asked them questions about what they had heard. Some conditions involved the speaker stressing different parts of words in a sentence. Other conditions involved the speaker making various types of hand gestures, such as pointing and sweeping movements.
Researchers found that the volunteers were more impacted by syllables(音节) spoken in conjunction with hand gestures: In 20 percent of the cases, the viewers were more likely to have heard and interpreted the word spoken with a hand gesture. Interestingly, however, volunteers were 40 percent more likely to have heard the wrong sound when a mismatch between the word spoken and the hand gesture occurred.
Body language expert Carol Goman said, “Studies have found that speaking with your hands really can change the view on your character. People who communicate through active gesturing tend to be considered warm, agreeable, and energetic, while those who remain still are seen as logical, cold, and analytic.” In fact, a 2015 study that studied TED Talks found that the most popular speakers used nearly twice as many gestures as the least popular speakers did.
The research team said that their findings suggest that hand gestures are an important part of in-person communication and have a direct impact on what the listener hears. Furthermore, they suggest that our responses to hand gestures may be something we learn as we grow up.
1. What does the study focus on?
A. Speaking habits.
B. Language learning.
C. Influence of gestures.
D. Skills in the public speech.
2. What does the underlined part “in conjunction with” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. Dealing with.
B. Combined with.
C. Compared with.
D. Communicating with.
3. What are TED Talks mentioned to stress in Paragraph 4?
A. The necessity of a good character.
B. The popularity of public speakers.
C. The importance of first impressions.
D. The effect of gestures on viewing one’s personality.
4. What may the researchers agree with?
A. Responses to gestures may be learned behavior.
B. Making proper hand movements is difficult.
C. In-person communication helps interpret gestures.
D. Understanding gestures is a must in every language.

答案： [语篇解读] 本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了关于手势如何改变言语感知的研究。
1.C 推理判断题。根据第一段中“...does the habit influence how others interpret those words...volunteers who viewed videos of people speaking with and without hand movements.”可知,该研究主要关注手势对话语理解的影响。
2.B 词义猜测题。根据第三段中“Researchers found that the volunteers were more impacted by syllables spoken...and interpreted the word spoken with a hand gesture.”可推知,说话有手势时,观看者会更容易听到并理解视频中的话,所以志愿者更容易被结合手势的音节影响。由此可知,此处的 in conjunction with 的意思和 combined with 接近。
3.D 推理判断题。根据第四段中“speaking with your hands really can change the view on your character...the most popular speakers used nearly twice...”可推知,研究发现手势可以改变人们对性格的看法,这在TED演讲中也被印证。所以提到TED演讲是为了强调手势对判断一个人的性格的影响。
4.A 推理判断题。根据最后一段中 our responses to hand gestures may be something we learn as we grow up 可推知,研究者认为,人们对于手势的反应可能是一种后天习得的行为。