题目
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Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that don’t really matter. If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech – “ I have a dream”, you may notice that he stumble(结巴)his words twice during the speech.Most likely, however, you don’t remember.Why? Because you were fixing your attention on its message rather than on his way of speech-making. People care a lot about making mistakes in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication. They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition.But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performer. They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly.Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human.
As you work on your speech, don’t worry about being imperfect.Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.
小题1:The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will ___________.
A.be smarter than you | B.notice your mistakes |
C.do better than you | D.know what you are talking about |
A.your attention is on the content |
B.you don’t fully understand the speech |
C.you don’t know what the speaker plans to say |
D.you find the way of speech-making more important |
A.giving a speech is like giving a performance |
B.one to two mistakes in a speech may not be bad |
C.the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made |
D.the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be |
A.How to Be a Perfect Speaker |
B.How to Make a Perfect Speech |
C.Don’t Expect a Perfect Speech |
D.Don’t Expect Mistakes in a Speech |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:C
解析
试题分析:
小题1:B第一段讲到演讲者没必要害怕演讲的内容没有和预先计划好的一模一样,因为没有人会注意到你的不明显的错误,听众只会你当时说出来的内容,
小题2:A从第五行They hear only what the speaker does say可以说明听众只是注意到演讲者说的内容而不是演讲事先准备说什么,所以不会觉察到明显的错误。
小题3:B推断题。纵观全文及第二段最后一句Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human可得出答案。
小题4:C.主旨大意题,这篇文章主要谈论在做演讲时,不要期待十全十美,偶尔一两个小错误对你的演讲不会有什么影响。另外也可以观察题支,发现BC两答案是互为矛盾的选项,再结合文章从BC 中排除一个干扰项。
点评:本篇文章主要谈论在做演讲时,不要期待十全十美,偶尔一两个小错误对你的演讲不会有什么影响。即使有明显的错误也没关系,听众不期待寻找完美的表演者,而是期待直接明了表达深邃思想的演讲者。
核心考点
试题【 It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech.At some】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
The lessons in Basic Math cover every basic field of arithmetic. They also look into exponents (指数), the order of operations, and square roots. In addition to that, students also discover how a particular mathematical topic relates to other branches , and how they can be used practically.
Basic Math starts from easier concepts and gradually moves on to the more troublesome ones. The lectures offer students the chance to understand of mathematical knowledge that may have seemed so frightening. They also help students prepare for college mathematics and develop confidence in this amazing field of study.
With the help of these lectures, they will be able to clear away the mystery (神秘性) of mathematics and face their studies with more confidence than they ever imagined. Besides, they will strengthen their ability to accept new and exciting mathematical challenges.
Professor H. Siegel, honored by Kentucky Educational Television as "the best math teacher in America, " is a devoted teacher and has a gift for explaining mathematical concepts in clear and interesting ways. From the basic ideas to the more difficult problems, he is a master in making math lectures learner-friendlier and less frightening
With a PhD in Mathematics Education form Georgia State University, Dr. Siegel now teaches mathematics at Central Arizona College.
If the course fails to provide complete satisfaction to you, you can easily exchange it for any other course that we offer. Or you can get your money back.
小题1:What does the course Basic Math mainly cover?
A.Algebra | B.College Mathematics |
C.Arithmetic | D.Mathematics Education |
A.Stronger imagination ability. |
B.Additional presentation skills. |
C.More mathematical confidence. |
D.Greater chances of becoming teachers. |
A.He is a lecturer at Kentucky Educational Television. |
B.He is delivering 30 lectures in Basic Math. |
C.He works in Georgia State University. |
D.He specializes in training teachers. |
A.news report | B.A book review |
C.A lesson plan | D.An advertisement |
Unfortunately, the more industrialized we become, the farther away we move from direct contact with plants, and the less distinct our knowledge grows.Yet everyone comes unconsciously on an amazing amount of botanical knowledge, and few people will fail to recognize a rose or an apple.When nor Neolithic ancestors, living in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago, discovered that certain grasses could be harvested and their seeds planted for richer fields the next season—the first, great step in a new association of plants and humans was taken.Grains were discovered and from them flowed the wonder of agriculture: cultivated crops.From then on, humans would increasingly take their living from the controlled production of a few plants, rather than getting a little here and a little there from many varieties that grew wild, and the accumulated knowledge of tens of thousands of years of experience with plants in the wild would begin to fade away.
小题1:What does the writer mean when he says "This is logical" in the first paragraph?
A.Human knowledge of plants is well organized and very detailed. |
B.It is not surprising that early humans had a detailed knowledge of plants. |
C.There is no clear way to determine the extent of our ancestor"s knowledge of plant. |
D.It is reasonable to assume our ancestors behave much like people in pre-industrial societies. |
A.people no longer value plants as a useful resource |
B.direct contact with a variety of plants has decreased |
C.botany is not recognized as a special branch of science |
D.research is unable to keep up with the increasing number of plants |
A.the changing diets of early humans |
B.the development of a system of names for plants |
C.the invention of agricultural implements (工具) and machinery |
D.the discovery of certain grasses that could be harvested and replanted |
A.the knowledge of plants |
B.the discovery of certain grasses |
C.the development of machinery |
D.the appearance of agriculture |
Firstly, anthropologists (人类学家) point out that the hidden love between children and parents found in modem societies does not usually exist in traditional societies.For example, we saw earlier that among the Ngonis the father and mother of a child did not raise their infant alone.But traditional societies are so different from modern societies that comparisons based on just one factor are hard to understand.
Secondly, common sense tells us that day care would not be so widespread today if parents and caretakers found that children had problems with it.But Bowlby"s analysis raises the possibility that early day care has delayed effects.The possibility that such care might lead to more mental illness or crime 15 or 20 years later can only be noticed by the use of statistics.Statistical studies of this kind have not yet been carried out, and even if they were, the results would be certain to be complicated and controversial.
Thirdly, in the last decade, there have been a number of careful American studies of children in day care, and they have reported that day care had a neutral of slightly positive effect on children"s development.But tests that have had to be used to measure this development are not widely enough accepted to settle the issue.
小题1:This passage is mainly talking about________.
A.children"s personality |
B.advantages of infants" early care |
C.infants" education |
D.negative effect of infant school |
A.nursing school | B.baby-sitter |
C.boarding school | D.primary school |
A.should not be sent to school |
B.should be cared for outside the home |
C.will not suffer fro m parental separation |
D.don"t mind who will look after them |
A.children have problems with day care |
B.there is no negative effect on infants who go to school before three |
C.there is a long-term effect on infants who go to school before three |
D.children who are sent to school before three are sent to mental illness |
One scientist recently came up with a way to explain this ant behaviour. Dong-Hwan Choe is a biologist, a scientist who studies animals and plants. He found that ants have a chemical on the outside of their bodies that signals to other ants, “I"m dead—take me away” when it is dead.
But there"s a question to answer: As we know, if an ant is dead, it stops moving. But when an ant is sleeping or knocked unconscious, it is also not moving. However, other ants don"t move the living ant out of the nest. How do they know this ant is not dead? Choe found that ants have another chemical on their bodies, which tells nearby ants something like, “Wait—I"m not dead yet” when it is not dead. Choe suspects that when an ant dies, the chemical that says, “Wait I"m not dead yet” quickly goes away. When other ants detect the “dead” chemical without the “not dead yet” chemical, they move away the body.
To test his theory , Choe and his team put different chemicals on ants. When the scientists used the “I"m dead” chemical, other ants quickly moved the treated ant away. When the scientists used the “Wait—I"m not dead yet” chemical, other ants left the treated ant alone. Choe believes this behavior shows that the “not dead yet” chemical overrides the “dead” chemical when picked up by other ants. And that when an ant dies, the “not dead yet” chemical fades away. Other nearby ants then detect the remaining “dead” chemical and remove the body from the nest.
Understanding this behavior can help scientists figure out how to stop ants from invading new places and causing problems.
小题1:What is the function of the first paragraph?
A.Leading the following paragraphs. |
B.Showing the main idea of the passage. |
C.Introducing the background of the passage. |
D.Giving a summary of the passage. |
A.is weaker than | B.is stronger than | C.is better than | D.is worse than |
A.Living ants can also be taken away when they are not moving. |
B.When an ant dies, it can tell others using a certain chemical. |
C.A living ant can pretend to be dead using a special chemical. |
D.Ants often use chemicals to communicate with each other. |
A.Choe did this study in order to stop ants from invading new places. |
B.Choe is a biologist who is only interested in animals, especially in ants. |
C.Choe first came up with an idea to explain this ant behavior,and then did some tests to prove his theory. |
D.Choe did the research on this ant behavior on his own |
Of course, all ideas don"t occur like that but so many do, particularly the most important ones. They burst into the mind, glowing with the heat of creation. How they do it is a mystery but they must come from somewhere. Let"s assume they come from the "unconscious." This is reasonable, for psychologists use this term to describe mental processes which are unknown to the individual. Creative thought depends on what was unknown becoming known.
All of us have experienced this sudden arrival of a new idea, but it is easiest to examine it in the great creative personalities, many of whom experienced it in an intensified form and have written it down in their life stories and letters. One can draw examples from genius in any field, from religion, philosophy, and literature to art and music, even in mathematics, science, and technical invention, although these are often thought to depend only on logic and experiment. All truly creative activities depend in some degree on these signals from the unconscious, and the more highly insightful the person is, the sharper and more dramatic the signals become.
A type of creative experience is illustrated by the dreams which came to Descartes at the age of twenty-three and determined his life path. Descartes had unsuccessfully searched for certainty, first in the world of books, and then in the world of men. Then in a dream on November 10, 1619, he made the significant discovery that he could only find certainty in his own thoughts, cogito ergo sum ("I think; therefore, I exist"). This dream filled him with intense religious enthusiasm.
Descartes" experience is representative of countless others in every field of culture. The unconscious is certainly the source of instinctive activity. But in creative thought the unconscious is responsible for the production of new organized forms from relatively disorganized elements.
小题1:Good ideas come from ________according to the writer.
A.the unconscious | B.creative activities | C.dreams | D.logic and experiments |
A.philosophy, music, mathematics and science |
B.religion, philosophy, literature, art and music |
C.mathematics, science, and technical invention |
D.both B and C |
A.Dreams are the sources of instinctive activities. |
B.Dreams sometimes contribute to important discoveries. |
C.Geniuses have creative thoughts in their dreams. |
D.Important discoveries are always made in dreams. |
A.The Unknown Becoming Known | B.The Role of Dreams |
C.The Unconscious and Creative Activities | D.Birth of Bright Ideas |
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