单项选择题
When two hands meet, we pass on something of ourselves. After
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to Mark Twain, Helen—who was both deaf and blind—commented, "I can feel the twinkle of his eye
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his handshake." In some indefinable way, Twain had
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his charm to Keller.
And that"s probably been true of the handshake all the
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back to its earliest days,
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no one can tell its actual
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. A common explanation is that
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early man encountered a stranger, he
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out his hand to show he had no weapon. From this, supposedly,
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the handshake.
"Not so", says historian Brian Burke. He believes, the handshake
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"putting your blood behind your breath." He explains that ancient people
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the spoken word alone, and they used the handclasp to signify that their
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was backed up by the
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of their heart—i, e., their blood.
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, the handshake suggested trust.
That
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of trust has survived to this day. People in business often
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agreements simply by declaring, "Let"s shake
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it."
Perhaps the most
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handshake took place on July 17, 1975, during the Apollo Soyuz get together in space. After the two crafts came together, American astronaut Thomas Stafford
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the extended hand of Soviet cosmonaut(宇航员) Alexey Leonov. The
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to the world was one of friendship and peace.
A.introducing
B.introduced
C.being introduced
D.having introduced