Eye behavior, involving varieties of eye-contact, can give subtle messages which people pick up in their daily life. Warm looks or cold stares tell more than words can. Meeting or failing to meet another person’s eye produce a particular effect. When two Americans look 62. ______. searchingly at each other’s eye, emotions are heightened and the 63. ______. relationship becomes closer. However, Americans are careful about where 64. ______. and when to meet other’s eye. In our normal conversation, each eye contact lasts only a few seconds before one or both individuals look away, because the longer meeting of the eyes is rare, and after it happens, can 65. ______. generate a special kind of human-to-human awareness. For instance, by simply using his eyes. a man can make a woman aware of him comfortably or uncomfortably; a long and steady gaze from a policeman or judge 66. ______. intimidates accused. In the U.S. proper street behavior requires a nice balance of attention and inattention. You are supposed to look at a passer- 67. ______. by just enough to show that you are being aware of his presence. If you look too little, you appear haughty; too much, inquisitive. Much eye 68. ______. behavior is such subtle that our reaction to it is largely instinctive. Besides, the codes of eye behavior vary dramatically from one culture to 69. ______. other. In the Middle east, it is impolite to look at other person all the time during a conversation; in England, the polite listener fixes the speaker 70. ______. with an inattentive stare and blinks eyes occasionally as a sign of interest and attention. In America, eye behavior functions as a kind of 71. ______. conversational traffic signal control the talking pace and time, and to indicate a change of topic. If you can understand this vital mechanism of interpersonal relations, the basic American idiom is there.