Question

It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech．At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned．Fortunately, the moments are usually not obvious to the listeners. Why ? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser．When such moments occur, don’t worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened．

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．

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

2.You don’t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because ___________．

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

3.It can be inferred from the passage that ___________

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

4.What would be the best title of the passage? 

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

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.A

3.B

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：这篇文章主要讲了不要期盼完美的演讲。

1.本题考查的是句意的猜测。根据上下文可以得出没人会注意到你在演讲中所出现的问题和错误，故选B。

2.根据第二段的“because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making.”可以看出人们的注意力集中在演讲的内容上，而不是集中在错误上，故答案应为A。

3.根据第二段最后一句话“sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human.”可以推断出本题的正确答案为B。

4.根据第一段的第一句话“It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech.” 可以推断出本题的答案为C选项。因为一般情况下，首句为文章的中心句。

考点：日常生活类阅读短文阅读理解

点评：日常生活这一话题主要涉及人们衣食住行等方面的活动。这一话题的选材主要针对人们日常的工作，生活以及学习情况。做这一类题时，最主要的是要把握好人物的活动内容，时间和地点。