题目内容
Eye contact is a nonverbal (非言语表达的)technique that helps the speaker “sell” his or her ideas to an audience. Besides its persuasive powers, eye contact helps hold listener interest. A successful speaker must maintain eye contact with an audience. To have good rapport(关系) with listener, a speaker should maintain direct eye contact for at least 75 percent of the time. Some speakers focus exclusively (唯一的)on their notes. Others gaze over the heads of their listeners. Both are likely to lose audience interest and esteem. People who maintain eye contact while speaking, whether from a podium(演讲台) or from across the table, are “regarded not only as exceptionally well-disposed by their target but also as more believable and earnest.” To show the potency (力量,效应)of eye contact in daily life, we have only to consider how passers-by behave when their glances happen to meet on the street. At one extreme are those people who feel obliged to smile when they make eye contact. At the other extreme are those who feel awkward and immediately look away. To make eye contact, it seems, is to make a certain link with someone. Eye contact with an audience also lets a speaker know and monitor the listeners. It is, in fact, essential for analyzing an audience during a speech. Visual clues(暗示) from audience members can indicate that a speech is dragging, that the speaker is dwelling on (to think, speak, or write a lot about) a particular point for too long, or that a particular point requires further explanation. As we have pointed out, visual feedback from listeners should play an important role in shaping a speech as it is delivered. 1. This passage is mainly concerned with ______. A. the importance of eye contact B. the potency of nonverbal techniques C. successful speech delivery D. an effective way to gain visual feedback 2. According to the passage, a good speaker must ______. A. “sell” his or her ideas to an audience B. maintain direct eye contact with listeners C. be very persuasive and believable D. be exceptionally well-disposed 3. The word “target” in the last sentence of the first paragraph can best be replaced by ______. A. “destination” B. “goal” C. “audience” D. “followers” 4. In daily life, when the glances of two passers-by happen to meet, these two persons will inevitably(不可避免地) ______. A. smile to each other B. feel awkward and look away immediately C. try to make a conversation with each other D. none of the above
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A firm handshake is the key to interview success. As any serious job-hunter knows, it helps to dress smartly and smile at that all-important interview. But research has showed that a firm handshake is what really matters when it comes to impressing potential employers.
A US research looked at 98 undergraduates taking part in mock(模拟)interviews with businesses. As each undergraduate was graded on their general performance, five “handshake raters(评估人)” also marked them on their grasp, strength, duration, vigor and eye contact.
Professor Greg Stewart, from the University of Iowa, who led the study, said those who scored highly with the handshake raters were also considered to be the most hirable by the interviewers. Students with “wimpy” shakes were judged to be more timid(胆怯的)and less impressive.
The study also found women with a firm handshake were likely to be evaluated more favorably than their male counterparts.
Professor Stewart said: “We’ve always heard that interviewers make up their mind about a person in the first two or three minutes of an interview. But we found that the first impression begins with a handshake that sets the tone for the rest of the interview. We don’t consciously remember a person’s handshake but it is one of the first non-verbal(非语言的)clues we get about the person’s general personality, and that impression is what we remember.”
Women were less likely to have a highly rated handshake, partly because traditionally they shake hands less than men. But when women did possess a firm handshake, they were likely to be evaluated more favorably than their male counterparts.
Body language experts warn, however, that the firmness needs to be just right, —as an overenthusiastic “bone crusher” handshake can indicate self-importance, a controlling personality and a lack of reliability.
The handshake is thought to have originated in medieval Europe as a way for kings and knights to show that they did not intend to harm each other and possessed no hidden weapons.
【小题1】The passage is probably intended for_______.
A.job-hunters | B.an undergraduate | C.employers | D.handshake raters |
A.The firmer your handshake is the better impression you leave. |
B.The undergraduates without a firm handshake are less competitive. |
C.Generally speaking, women shake hands less with others. |
D.The handshake dates back to medieval Europe. |
A.The handshake determines a person’s personality. |
B.A successful job interview starts with a firm handshake. |
C.The first few minutes of the interview really counts. |
D.Job interview success depends on a number of factors. |
My 8-year-old daughter is making an experiment. She has been making her own colorful smile cards and often takes them with her everywhere.
Last Sunday, I took my kid to go shopping with me. She was hoping to see John, who is an elderly man and gives out samples. We see him from time to time and he is so happy and friendly. John wasn’t at the store on Sunday, so my daughter decided that it would be a good idea to distribute her smile cards to the store’s other employees.
So she did. In the produce department, she gave a card to a young man and she hoped it would make him smile. And he smiled at her and thanked her. Then she came across an older gentleman who looked rather impatient. And she snuck a card into his cart on top of his groceries, remarking to me later that he looked at her suspiciously as if she was dumping trash in his cart. But I thought he would be happy later.
When we got back from our shopping trip, she had run out of cards. She was walking by a woman with two babies in her cart. My daughter smiled at her and the young mother smiled back. My daughter came to me and said excitedly, “Mom, I just realized something. You don’t need cards to make someone smile. All you need to do is make eye contact and smile into their eyes and they will smile back.”
What a beautiful lesson my daughter reminded me of. You are never too young or too old to experiment with kindness and smiles.
【小题1】At first, the writer’s daughter made an experiment by ______.
A.giving smile cards | B.giving samples |
C.making eye contact | D.giving groceries |
A.who is very young and lively | B.who may be a salesman |
C.who is in trouble and needs smiles | D.who is never seen to smile |
A.make up | B.tear up | C.give out | D.sell out |
A.John got a smile card from the writer’s daughter |
B.the older gentleman would smile later after he got the smile card |
C.we could make others smile only by giving them what they wanted |
D.the mother with two babies smiled because she got a smile card |