题目内容
【题目】七选五
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How to Win a Debate Competition
Debating doesn’t mean that you can end up arguing with your opponents(对手). 【1】The following tips on how to win a debate will further help you out.
【2】 This is very important. If you already know the debate topic that you are going to debate on, learn as much about it as you can. Research on it and then form opinions about it. Only if you know something in and out, will you be able to talk convincingly on it.
2. Be confident.
When you are putting your point in front of your opponents as well as the audience, be sure of yourself. Along with the words, your body language, voice modulation (语调) and eye contact, will play a major part in your success in debating. 【3】3. Give real life examples.
While debating, make use of very simple language, which your audience can understand very easily. Give as many real examples as you can when making a point. 【4】Thus, the judges and audience will find you much more convincing.
4. Be descriptive.
To win any debate, there is something about the human mind that you should be aware of. The thing with us humans is that if we see something, we believe and remember it much more than something we merely hear! 【5】Tell you point of view in such a way that they can actually “see” what you are saying. If you are somehow able to pull this off, there is no doubt that you will be the winner of the debate competition!
Follow the tips mentioned above, and with time, you will see yourself winning over your judges and audience.
A. Be well prepared.
B. Promote dialogue instead of arguing with your opponents.
C. Try to paint a picture in the mind of your judges and audience.
D. So participate in as many debating contests as you can.
E. To prove your point, tell something you or someone else has personally experienced.
F. So practice with friends or in front of the mirror so that you are certain of your ability.
G. Your main purpose is to convince your audience what you are saying is right.
【答案】
【1】G
【2】A
【3】F
【4】E
【5】C
【解析】
本文讲诉如何赢得辩论比赛。
【1】G根据前文Debating doesn’t mean that you can end up arguing with your opponents(对手). 辩论并不意味着你可以和你的对手争论。可知选G项“你的主要目的是让听众相信你说的是对的”。
【2】A根据后文learn as much about it as you can. 尽可能多的了解它。Research on it and then form opinions about it. 对其进行研究，形成建议。可知选A项“做好充分准备”。
【3】F根据本段主题句Be confident.故选F。自己充分准备，训练后才能有信心。
【4】E根据前文Give as many real examples as you can when making a point. 给出一个观点时尽可能多举例子。可知选E“为了证明你的观点，告诉你或别人亲身经历过的事情”。
【5】C根据后文Tell you point of view in such a way that they can actually “see” what you are saying. 用这种方式告诉你观点，他们实际上可以“看到”你要说什么。可知选C“试着在你的评委和观众心目中画一幅画”。
【题目】 请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意：每个空格只填1个单词。
Age has its privileges in America, and one of the more prominent of them is the senior citizen discount. Anyone who has reached a certain age — in some cases as low as 55 — is automatically entitled to dazzling array of price reductions at nearly every level of commercial life. Eligibility is determined not by one’s need but by the date on one’s birth certificate. Practically unheard of a generation ago, the discounts have become a routine part of many businesses — as common as color televisions in motel rooms and free coffee on airliners.
People with gray hair often are given the discounts without even asking for them; yet, millions of Americans above age 60 are healthy and solvent(有支付能力的). Businesses that would never dare offer discounts to college students or anyone under 30 freely offer them to older Americans. The practice is acceptable because of the widespread belief that “elderly” and “needy” are synonymous (同义的). Perhaps that once was true, but today elderly Americans as a group have a lower poverty rate than the rest of the population. To be sure, there is economic diversity within the elderly, and many older Americans are poor. But most of them aren’t.
It is impossible to determine the impact of the discounts on individual companies. For many firms, they are a stimulus to revenue. But in other cases the discounts are given at the expense, directly or indirectly, of younger Americans. Moreover, they are a direct irritant in what some politicians and scholars see as a coming conflict between the generations.
Generational tensions are being fueled by continuing debate over Social Security benefits, which mostly involve a transfer of resources from the young to the old. Employment is another sore point. Buoyed (支持) by laws and court decisions, more and more older Americans are declining the retirement dinner in favor of staying on the job — thereby lessening employment and promotion opportunities for younger workers.
Far from a kind of charity they once were, senior citizen discounts have become a formidable economic privilege to a group with millions of members who don’t need them.
It no longer makes sense to treat the elderly as a single group whose economic needs deserve priority over those of others. Senior citizen discounts only enhance the myth that older people can’t take care of themselves and need special treatment; and they threaten the creation of a new myth, that the elderly are ungrateful and taking for themselves at the expense of children and other age groups. Senior citizen discounts are the essence of the very thing older Americans are fighting against — discrimination by age.
Outline | Details |
Introduction | Age determines whether an American can be given a discount, which is a common 【1】________________in American business life today. |
Origin of senior citizen discount | ●Since the senior citizens are often treated as people who are in 【2】____________, they are given such priority. |
【3】__________ situation | ●The situation has changed a lot where the majority of the elderly are not poor at all. ●Younger Americans were at a/an 【4】__________ directly or indirectly due to the discounts given to the elderly, thus leading to conflicts between generations. ●The number of older Americans 【5】___________ to work rather than retire is on the increase, which means 【6】__________ opportunities for young workers. ●It is no longer a kind of charity because millions of senior citizens don’t need the priority 【7】__________. |
Conclusion | It’s unwise to offer discount priority to the elderly. ●It will mislead people to think they are unable to 【8】_____________ to themselves. ●People may think that they are ungrateful and they’re hurting the 【9】_____________ of other age groups. ●Actually senior citizen discounts, to some extent, 【10】___________against their age. |