Though speech is the most obvious form of communication, it is not the only means ______ we communic
A.A.
B.B.with which
C.C.by which
D.D.for which
E.E.in which
A.A.
B.B.with which
C.C.by which
D.D.for which
E.E.in which
第1题
A.rules
B.experience
C.basics
D.pointers
第2题
听力原文:W: What do you think of Martin's speech?
M: Even though his speech was the last one on the program, it was the best one.
Which of the following statements is true?
A.Martin spoke last but not best.
B.Martin spoke last and best.
C.Even though last, Martin spoke fast.
第3题
听力原文:W : What do you think of Jane's speech?
M: Even though her speech was the last one on the program, it was the best one.
Which of the following statements is true?
A.Jane spoke last but not best.
B.Jane spoke last and best.
C.Even though last, Jane spoke fast.
第4题
Even with a bill of rights, Iraq's new constitution is primarily based on Islamic codes.
A.正确
B.错误
第5题
According to the conversation, which of the following is INCORRECT?
A.People can communicate well though having different accents.
B.Correct stress helps one deliver his speech clearly.
C.Misunderstanding is always caused by different accents.
D.One probably will never sound like a native speaker.
第6题
【C1】
A.normal
B.rare
C.subtle
D.complex
第7题
The Game of the Name
Here comes John Smith walking toward me. Even though he is but a passing acquaintance, the American greeting ritual demands that I utter a few words to reassure him of my good will. But what form. of ad- dress should I use? John? Smith? Dr. Smith? A decision such as this is usually made unconsciously.
As native speakers in the American speech community, we have grown up learning the rules of address at the same time that we were acquiring the grammatical rules of American - English. At first thought, it might seem a trivial pursuit to examine the ways in which we address one another. But forms of address re- veal many assumptions we make about memebers of our speech community.
Our initial decision about the appropriate address form. is based on relative ages. If the person being ad- dressed is a child, then almost all the rules that we have unconsciously assimilated can safely be ignored, and we use the simple formula First Name. The child, in turn, addresses an adult by using the formula Tihe plus Last Name.
But defining a "child" is not always easy. I address my son's roommate at college by FN, even though he is an adult under the law. I, too, have the relative age of a child to a 75 - year - old acquaintance who calls me Pete. Let us assume that John Smith' is not a child who can be addressed by FN but is either my contemporary or my elder. The next important determiner for the form. of address will then be the speech situation.
If the situation is a formal one, then I must disregard all other rules and use social Identity plus Last Name. John Smith will always be addressed as Dr. Smith (or sometimes simply as Doctor, with Last Name understood) in the medical setting of office or hospital. (I am allowed to call him if my status is at least as high as his or if we are friends outside of our social roles, but the rest of my utterance must remain respectful.)
We are also obliged to address certain other people by their social identity in formal situation: public officials (Congressman: Your Honor), educators (Professor or Doctor), leaders of meetings (Mr. Chairman ), Roman Catholic priests (Father Daily) and nuns (Sister Anna), and so forth. By the way, note the sexist distinction in the formulas for priests and nuns. The formula for a priest is Father plus Last Name, but for a nun it is Sister plus Religious Name (usually an FN).
Most conversations, however, are not carried on in formal speech situations, and so the basic decision is when to use FN to TLN. A social acquaintance or newly hired colleague of approximately the same age and rank is usually introduced on an FN basis. "Pete, I'd like you to meet Harvy. "Now a problem arises if both age and rank of cone of the parties are higher: "Pete, I'd like you to meet Attorney Brown."
Attorney Brown may, of course, at any time signal me that he is willing to suspend the rules of address and allow an FN basis. Such a suspension is his privilege to bestow, and it is usually handled humorously, with a remark like, “I answer quicker to Bruce.”
Complications arise when relative age and relative rank are not both the same. A young doctor who joins a hospital finds it difficult to address a much older doctor. They are equal in rank (and therefore FN should be used) but the great disparity in ages calls for TLN. In such cases, the young doctor can use the No - Name (NN) formula, phrasing his utterances adroitly to avoid using any term of address at all.
English is quite exceptional among the world's languages in this respect. Most European languages oblige the speaker to choose between the familiar and formal second person singular (as in the French tu and vous), as English once did when “thou” was in use.
This is the basic American system, but the rules vary according to speech situations, subtle friendship or kin relationships between the speakers, regions of
A.relative ages
B.speech situation
C.relative ranks
D.relative incomes
第8题
听力原文:W: Are you all prepared for your Speech Club introduction this evening?
M: Yeah, I'm going to talk about robots.
W: Robots? You mean, those machines that walk and talk like in the movies?
M: No, industrial robots, like those used in auto and electronic industries.
W: Come to think of it, I saw an article about that kind of robot the other day. There were pictures of robots joining cars, but they certainly didn't look the way I thought robot should look.
M: The robots we usually imagine are made up in science fictions. In industry robots are designed to do a specific set of operations, such as joining car frames. They are rarely built to resemble humans.
W: Actually, all they need is a kind of brain to give signals, and a mechanical appliance such as an arm to carry out instructions, right?
M: Right ! Tiny computers become the brains of these robots. The computers send signals in the form. of electrical signals that move an arm and something like our fingers. Those fingers do particular kinds of work.
W: OK. But we have had machines on the assembly line doing work for people for years. That's what started the Industrial Revolution, remember?
M: But each of those machines can only perform. a single operation and it takes months to modify them. The new industrial robots can do a number of tasks and it's easy to reprogram them to perform. totally different operations. That's one reason why they're becoming so popular.
W: They increase productivity too, don't they? Even though they are still quite expensive, I imagine robots will be used more and more.
M: Exactly. So now that you know all about the next Industrial Revolution. You don't have to come to Speech Club tonight.
What are the speakers talking about?
A.Movies.
B.Cars.
C.Robots.
D.Fictions.
第9题
【A4】
A.DON"T LEAVE THE AUDIENCE OUT.
B.MAKE IT SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAN
D.
C.BE PREPARED AND PRACTIC
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D.COMPLEMENT YOUR SPEECH WITH VISUAL AIDS.
E.PICK A TOPIC THAT INTERESTS YOU. GIVING SPEECHES AND PRESENTATIONS IS AN INEVITABLE PART OF LIF
E.WHETHER IT BE AT SCHOOL OR AT A CONFERENCE, SPEECHES AND ORALS DOMINATE MOST FIELDS OF STUDY.WHAT IS WORSE IS THAT OVER THREE QUARTERS OF THE POPULATION FEAR PRESENTATIONS IN FRONT OF PEOPLE EVEN THOUGH, EIGHT TIMES OUT OF TEN THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR OR BE ANXIOUS ABOUT. FOR THE REMAINING 20 PERCENT, THE FOLLOWING TIPS WILL HELP YOU BETTER PREPARE FOR A PUBLIC SPEECH AND TO BETTER DELIVER, STARTING TODAY. 【A1】______ PART OF BEING NERVOUS DURING AN ORAL OR PRESENTATION IS DUE TO THE FACT THAT YOU FEEL LIKE YOU WILL FORGET CRITICAL PIECES OF INFORMATION OR THAT YOU WILL GET UP FRONT OF EVERYONE AND FORGET EVERYTHIN
G.PRACTICE, OVER AND OVER, UNTIL YOU ARE ABLE TO DO YOUR PRESENTATION WITH THE MINIMAL AMOUNT OF CUE CARDS.PRACTICE IN DIFFERENT SETTINGS, IN FRONT OF DIFFERENT PEOPL
E. 【A2】______ IT IS HARD TO SPEAK PASSIONATELY AND WITH CONVICTION WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT YOU COULDN"T CARE ABOUT TO SAVE YOUR LIF
E.PICK A TOPIC THAT YOU KNOW ABOUT SO THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO INJECT A LITTLE CHARISMA INTO YOUR SPEEC
H.WHEN QUESTIONS COME AROUND AT THE END, YOU WILL BE MORE EQUIPPED TO ANSWER THEM IF YOU LOVE WHAT YOU TALKED ABOUT.ALSO, PICKING A TOPIC THAT INTERESTS YOU, BUT THAT YOU DON"T NECESSARILY KNOW A LOT ABOUT, MAKES INFORMATION FOUND REGARDING THAT TOPIC EASIER TO ENCODE INTO LONG TERM MEMORY AND THEN TO RETRIEVE IT! EASIER TO REMEMBER MAKES FOR AN EASIER PERFORMANC
E. 【A3】______ WHEN THE AUDIENCE IS PULLED INTO YOUR SPEECH, OR IS FORCED TO INTERACT WITH YOU WHILE YOU ARE GIVING YOUR SPEECH, THEIR CURIOSITY AND ATTENTION WILL BE ON YOU.WHEN YOU DO NOT INTERACT WITH THE AUDIENCE, YOU ARE GIVING THEM A HUGE OPPORTUNITY TO DAYDREAM, DOZE OFF AND NOT LISTE
N.WHY SPEND ALL THAT TIME ON A SPEECH TO HAVE YOUR AUDIENCE FALL ASLEEP? 【A4】______ NOT EVERYONE WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING AND NOT EVERYONE IS INTERESTED IN WHAT YOU ARE SAYING, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE TOPIC IS DIFFICULT TO START WIT
H.EVEN WHEN YOU DEFINE DIFFICULT TERMS THEY MAY NOT KEEP UP.NO ONE CARES ABOUT HOW SMART YOU SOUN
D.LOSING YOUR AUDIENCE IS NOT IDEAL EITHER, WHICH IS INEVITABLE IF THEY DON"T UNDERSTAN
D.IF YOU HAVE TO USE COMPLICATED TERMS, COMPLEMENT THEM WITH AN EASY TO UNDERSTAND EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOU MEA
N. 【A5】______ USE POWER POINT SLIDES OR PROJECTORS.ILLUSTRATE YOUR EXAMPLES AND PUT DEFINITIONS OF DIFFICULT CONCEPTS ON SIMPLE SLIDES.SOME PEOPLE LEARN BETTER VISUALLY. DRESS PROPERLY. DO NOT DRESS LIKE YOU ARE STAYING IN FOR THE DAY,
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E.SWEAT PANTS? DRESS LIKE YOU MEAN IT AND ARE INTERESTED IN WHAT YOU ARE DOIN
G.DRESS LIKE YOU ARE TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY.WHAT YOU WEAR SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT YOU AND PEOPLE TAKE THOSE WHO DRESS SERIOUSLY, MORE SERIOUSLY AND THINK THEY ARE MORE COMPETENT. KEEP YOUR AUDIENCE HANGING AND THINKIN
G. CLOSE YOUR SPEECH BY LEAVING YOUR AUDIENCE THINKIN
G.THIS WILL PERPETUATE YOUR SPEECH AND CULTIVATE CURIOSITY IN OTHERS.IT WILL ALSO LEAVE YOU AND YOUR SPEECH MORE MEMORABL
E. EVERYTHING FROM DRESSING TO THE WAY YOU DELIVER YOUR SPEECH IS IMPORTANT.IT IS THROUGH PRACTICE THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO RELIEVE A BIT OF THE ANXIETY AND FEAR THAT ACCOMPANIES PUBLIC SPEAKIN
G.SPEAKING SLOW AND WITH CONVICTION WILL CAPTIVATE THE AUDIENCE AND LEAVE THEM WANTING MOR
E.REMEMBER, ANXIETY IS NORMAL, BUT IF YOU WORK THROUGH IT YOU WILL FIND THAT IT IS NOT AS BAD AS YOU MAKE IT OUT TO B
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