Eyes are the window of soul. They are one of the most expressive instruments of body language. Keith, seventeen, from Montclair, New Jersey, learned the hard way about one 1 the eyes can make. "I had a teacher who 2 heavily on classroom discussion," Keith says. "He seemed to have a strong 3 to know just when I didn't have the answer. I couldn't 4 how he could be so 5.Then it dawned on me. 6 I didn't know the answer, I would 7 looking at him. When I did know what to say, I always stared straight back 8 him. From that moment on, I 9 myself to look him in the eye, 10 I knew the answer or not. That trick has 11 me a lot of trouble."
Many people, 12 some policemen, believe eye contact is a good 13 to testing honesty. If someone can't look at you directly in the eye, then he or she is not playing 14, they insist. After many experiments, 15 , a number of experts have found out that good liars can make false eye contact.
Eye contact, though not a sure 16 of dishonesty, is a clear way to show interest in another person. When a person looks at you and continues to do so, you know his attention is 17 on you. When he turns his head away, his mind is probably 18. But there is 19. A shy person may have trouble making and keeping eye contact, no matter how interested he is in the other person. And certain nationalities, such as the British and Germans, are much 20 adaptable to eyeball-to-eyeball contact than, say, the French and the Arabs.
