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：

1.B第一段讲到演讲者没必要害怕演讲的内容没有和预先计划好的一模一样，因为没有人会注意到你的不明显的错误，听众只会你当时说出来的内容，

2.A从第五行They hear only what the speaker does say可以说明听众只是注意到演讲者说的内容而不是演讲事先准备说什么，所以不会觉察到明显的错误。

3.B推断题。纵观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.主旨大意题，这篇文章主要谈论在做演讲时，不要期待十全十美，偶尔一两个小错误对你的演讲不会有什么影响。另外也可以观察题支，发现BC两答案是互为矛盾的选项，再结合文章从BC 中排除一个干扰项。

考点：教育说理性议论文

点评：本篇文章主要谈论在做演讲时，不要期待十全十美，偶尔一两个小错误对你的演讲不会有什么影响。即使有明显的错误也没关系，听众不期待寻找完美的表演者，而是期待直接明了表达深邃思想的演讲者。