2019专八真题讲座听力文本

very awkward wink, or handshake.
So what kind of body language am I talking about? I am interested in
1___________________— that is the nonverbal expressions of power and dominance.
small. Women feel chronically 习惯性地 _9_______________ than men, so this is
not surprising.
The second question concerns our minds. We know that our minds change our
changes. Concerning 21___________________________, high-power people
experience about a 25-percent decrease, and the low power people experience about a
That ’ s the whole experiment.
And this is what we have found —16___________________________, which is
17________. What
we
find
is
that
when
you’ re
18_________________________________________, 86 percent of you will gamble.
differences between powerful and powerless people. Physiologically, there also are
differences on two key hormones: one is dominance hormone, and the other is stress
2019 专八真题听力练习 Body language and mind
Good morning, everyone. In today
’ s lecture, I
‘ d like to focus on how our body
language reveals who we are. We’ re really fascinated with body language, and
particularly interested in other people
’ s body language. You know, we ’ re sometim
interested in an awkward interaction, or a smile, or a contemptuous glance, or maybe
raise their hands high. You have other people who are virtually collapsing when they
come in. as soon as they, I mean other people, come in, you see it. You see it on their
lifted. But what do we do when we feel powerless? We do exactly the opposite.
3_________________________. We make ourselves small. We don wa’nt tto bump
when athletes cross the finish line and they
’ ve won, it doesn ’ t matter if they
’ ve
seen anyone do it. They do this. So the arms are up in the V sign, the chin is slightly
20___________________________. From their baseline when they come in,
high-power people experience about a 20 percent increase, and low-power people
experience about a 10-percent decrease.So again, two minutes, and you get these
15 percent increase. Once again, two minutes lead to these hormonal changes that
And what are nonverbal expressions of power and dominance? Well, this is what they
are. In the animal kingdom, nonverbal expressions of power and dominance are about
bodies. But is it also true that 10___________________________________________?
And when I say minds, in the case of the powerful, what doI mean? I ’ m talking about
other ’ s nonverbals. What I mneias if someone is being really powerful with us, we
tend to 4__________________________________.We don’5t ________________.
faces and their bodies, and they sit in their chair and they make themselves
8________, and they will not fully stretch their arms when they raise their hands. I
what do the minds of the powerful versus the powerless look like? Powerful people
tend to be, not surprisingly, 11____________________________________________.
they ’ re feeling powerful in the moment. And this one is especially interesting because
it really shows us how universal and old these expressions of power are. For example,
also notice another interesting thing about his. It seems women are much more likely
to do this kind of thing than men. I mean women are more likely to make themselves
into the person next to us. And this is what happens when you put together high and
low power. So what we tend to do when it comes to power is that we complement the
about 12________________.
Once we did an experiment. We decided to bring people into the lab and run that
little experiment. These people adopted, for two minutes, either
2________. So you make yourself big, you stretch out, you take up space and you are
basically opening up. And… and humans do the same thing. So they do this when
13______________________ or 14__________________________________.We,
for two minutes, say, “ Youneed to do this or this. A”n d we also want them to be
feeling power. So after two minutes we will ask them “ Hwo powerful do you feel? ”
on a series of items, and then we 15________________________________________.
Before and after the experiment, we take their sample of saliva for a hormone test.
When you’ re19_________________________________________, it ’ s down to only 60 percent, and that ’as pretty significant difference. Here’ swhat we find on
thoughts and feelings and the sort of physiological 生理学上的 things that make up
our thoughts and feelings, and in my case, that
’ s hormones. I look at hormones. So
They actually feel that they
’ re going to win even at games of chance. They also tend
to be able to think more abstractly. They take more risks. So there are a lot of
We do the opposite.
I ’ mwatching this behavior in the classroom, and guess what I have noticed. I
notice that MBA students really exhibit the full range of power nonverbals. They get
right into the middle of the room before class even starts, like they really want to
6________________. When they sit down, they
’7re__s_o_rt_o_f__________. They
hormone. What we find is that powerful and effective leaders have high dominance
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hormone and low stress hormone. What does that mean? That means power is also