Angol emeltszintű érettségi szöveghallgatás: Smile
• In this section you are going to hear some information about smiles.
• Your task will be to decide whether the following statements are true,
false or we do not know because the text does not say. Write A if the statement is
true, write B if the statement is false, and write C if the text does not
say.
• First, you will have some time to study the task, and then we will play
the whole recording in one piece.
• Then, after a short pause, you will hear the recording again, but this
time we will play the text in shorter sections to give you enough time to
write down your answers.
• At the end, you will have some more time to check your work.
1. A French doctor started to deal with muscles responsible for smiles in the beginning of 19th century.
2. There are more than two muscles which turn the corners of the lips when smiling.
3. Crows feet is the move when fanned wrinkles appear around the eyes.
4. Duchenne smile is the type of smile which is a voluntary movement.
5. Some people consider that a real smile has amazing effects.
6. There was a woman appearing with a Duchenne smile in a college photo who became a good sportswoman later.
Forrás: http://www.scientificamerican.com/
Megoldások
1.B
2.C
3.A
4.B
5.A
6.B
A szöveg átirata
Most of us can spot a genuine smile. There’s just something different about it.
Well it was a French doctor in the 1860s who went to the trouble of stimulating facial muscles with electrical currents to discover just what reveals a genuine smile. It’s two muscles working together. The zygomatic major muscle that turns the corners of the lips up, and the orbicularis oculi muscle that squeezes the eyes into the famous fanned wrinkles also known as crows feet. Now it’s this latter muscle that’s involuntary, so the crows feet smile is considered the real spontaneous emotion and is known as the Duchenne smile.
It turns out the real thing has a lot of power. In this month’s Observer Magazine, Eric Jaffe outlines some fascinating effects of an honest smile. For instance a 30-year long study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that women who displayed the Duchenne smile in their college yearbook photos had greater levels of well-being and marital satisfaction three decades later. Another study published this year in Psychological Science went further to make a connection between smiles and longevity. They found that professional baseball players who sported Duchenne smiles in their yearbook photo were only half as likely to die, in any given year, as those who had not.
So during this holiday season, when the cameras and cell phones come out, give it your best, most candid smile…it appears a good thing.
