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（結巴）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】

試題分析：

1.B第一段講到演講者沒必要害怕演講的內容沒有和預先計劃好的一模一樣，因為沒有人會注意到你的不明顯的錯誤，聽眾只會你當時說出來的內容，

2.A從第五行They hear only what the speaker does say可以說明聽眾只是注意到演講者說的內容而不是演講事先準備說什么，所以不會覺察到明顯的錯誤。

3.B推斷題�？v觀全文及第二段最后一句Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human可得出答案。

4.C.主旨大意題，這篇文章主要談論在做演講時，不要期待十全十美，偶爾一兩個小錯誤對你的演講不會有什么影響。另外也可以觀察題支，發現BC兩答案是互為矛盾的選項，再結合文章從BC 中排除一個干擾項。

考點：教育說理性議論文

點評：本篇文章主要談論在做演講時，不要期待十全十美，偶爾一兩個小錯誤對你的演講不會有什么影響。即使有明顯的錯誤也沒關系，聽眾不期待尋找完美的表演者，而是期待直接明了表達深邃思想的演講者。