76.According to the author, people love chocolate because A. it has a pleasant taste　　　　　　　　　　　 　 　B. the way it melts C. it makes people happier　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. it is important in human diet

75．Which of the following statements is true?

　 A．If you are careful enough, you can make a perfect speech．

　 B．Speech-making is a kind of performance．

　 C．Listeners are not judges and they pay more attention to the message．

　 D．Martin Luther King is not a good speaker．

C

Chocolate is a very special kind of food. Although certainly not a vital part of the human diet, it is loved for its delicious sweet taste and the way it melts in the mouth, and would be missed by many millions of people if it suddenly ceased to exist. Indeed, the global population of “chocoholics” is very large. The most chocoholic countries in the world are in Europe; Switzerland and Austria top the list with an annual average consumption of around ten kilograms of chocolate per person, closely followed by Britain and Ireland.

Many people believe that eating chocolate has a mood-enhancing effect. There is disagreement, however, about whether this is due to the ingredients of chocolate or the significance attached to eating it. Some scientists have suggested that chocolate releases chemicals in the brain that create feelings of happiness, while others believe the happy feelings might only occur because people see eating chocolate as a way of being nice to themselves.

The vital ingredient in chocolate is the seeds of the cacao tree, which only grows in tropical countries. Cacao was first cultivated at least 2,500 years ago by the Maya and Aztec civilisations of Central America, which used the seeds to make a chocolate-flavoured drink. In the early sixteenth century, Spanish explorers who arrived in Central America recorded that the Aztec emperor, Montezuma, was particularly fond of this chocolate drink, although it was not mixed with sugar and therefore had a bitter rather than a sweet taste.

The Spanish took cacao seeds back to Europe, where the chocolate drink quickly became popular with very rich people, the only ones able to afford it. It wasn’t until the nineteenth century that chocolate began to appear in the solid form that is so familiar today. The world’s biggest producers of cacao today are the Ivory Coast and Ghana, both in western Africa.

The three main varieties of chocolate are dark, milk and white (which doesn’t contain any solid part of the cacao seed, and perhaps therefore shouldn’t be considered ‘real’ chocolate). No one would pretend that eating large amounts of any of these is good for you, but there is some evidence to suggest that regularly eating small quantities of dark chocolate might reduce the risk of heart disease.

74．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

73．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

72．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

71．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

70. Which of the following proverbs suits the story the best?

A. Every little thing helps.　　　　 　　　　　B. Make hay while the sun shines.

C. Man proposes, God disposes.　 　　　　　D. One good turn deserves another.

B

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 listen to Martin Luther King’s famous speech – “ I have a dream”, you may notice that he stumbles(结巴) his words twice during the speech．Most likely, however, you don’t remember．Why? Because you were fixing your attention on his 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 express the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly．Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speakers’ 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．

69. In Para. 5 the clerk laughed with the couple because ___________.

　　 A. he thought the elderly man very funny

　　 B. he felt excited about the man’s offer

　　 C. he knew he would have a bright future with the man’s help

　　 D. he had a pleasant time with the couple

68. The underlined word “conventions” in Para. 3 can be replaced by ___________?

A. rooms　　　 　　　B. suites　　　 　　C. meetings　　　 　　D. hotels

67. Which of the statements about the story is NOT true?

A. The story took place at about one a.m.

B. The old couple was too poor to afford a luxurious room.

C. The clerk was willing to help those in need.

D. The clerk received an unexpected invitation from the old man.