Question

 

My teachers suggested that I see a speech specialist (專家) in school.

I never really gave much thought to my speech. If other people understood what I was saying, then that was good enough. I didn’t mind repeating myself many times.

Before testing me, the speech specialist asked me what I thought of having good speech. I told her I thought it was not important.

“Well, when you are in an interview for a job, and they don’t know what you are saying, what are they going to say to you? Nice meeting you, bye,” she said.

Maybe good speech was important. I took part in 20-minute classes each week with the specialist.

After she tested me, she told me that I spoke too fast, and didn’t give enough eye contact (眼神交流). I learned that when I made eye contact with someone, it meant that I was talking to that person, and I could also see what he or she thought about what I was saying.

When my first speech class started, I found that I had been speaking too fast to be understood. Every time I spoke too fast, the specialist stopped me and told me to start again. At first, I got stopped after almost every other sentence. After a while, I felt my speech slow down. I wasn’t sure if people could understand me better, but my friends stopped asking me to repeat myself.

Speech is an important skill to have. If you do have good speech, that’s a good thing, but if you don’t have it, it is never too late to improve.

1.The article is probably taken from       .

 A. a newspaper    B. an advertisement  C. a detective story    D. a science book

2.What did the writer think of having good speech before the classes?

A. It was very useful.

B. It was nothing important.

C. It was impossible.

D. It was good for interviewing.

3. What were the writer’s problems when he was speaking?

a. He spoke too quickly.                 b. He never stopped once he started talking.

c. He seldom kept eye contact with people.  d. He didn’t give others time to ask questions.

A. a, b            B. b, c             C. a, c              D. b, d

4. From the sentence “but my friends stopped asking me to repeat myself,” we know that _____.

A. the writer’s friends couldn’t understand him

B. the writer still couldn’t make eye contact

C. the writer improved a lot

D. the writer didn’t slow down

5.Through the passage, the writer wants to tell us that _____.

A. seeing a speech specialist is necessary

B. speech is an important skill to have

C. good speech can help you make friends

D. good speech gets good affect

 

Answer 1

【答案】

        

1. A

2. B

3. C

4. C

5. B

【解析】

試題分析：本文主要講述的是作者在專家培訓之前，語速很快，也沒有與聽者有眼神交流。在專家第一次給作者本人上課時，因為說的太快，幾乎每句話都會被專家叫停重來，慢慢地作者的語速變慢，專家也不再打斷。作者從開始認為演講好壞是不重要的，轉變到認為演講是一門應該掌握的技能。

1.推理判斷題。a newspaper一份報紙an advertisement一份廣告 a detective story一個偵探故事 a science book一本科學書。本文是關于如何演講的，不會出現在廣告，偵探故事和科學書上，故選A。

2.細節理解題。從 I told her I thought it was not important.我告訴她我認為這不重要，可知作者在上專家的課之前認為好的演講并不重要，得知答案選B。

3.細節理解題。從 After she tested me, she told me that I spoke too fast, and didn’t give enough eye contact.I learned that when I made eye contact with someone, it meant that I was talking to that person, and I could also see what he or she thought about what I was saying.她測試我之后，說我講的太快，沒有充分的眼神交流。我得知當我與某人眼神交流時，這意味著我正在和那人說話，我也能看到他或她在思考我正在說的，可知作者說的太快，沒有給聽者時間想問題，故選C。

4.細節理解題。從 Every time I spoke too fast, the specialist stopped me and told me to start again. At first, I got stopped after almost every other sentence.每次我講快了，專家都讓我停下來，重新開始。開始幾乎每句話都停下來，經過多次練習，專家不再打斷他，說明他的語速變慢了，故選C。

5.標題歸納題。從Speech is an important skill to have演講是一門需要掌握的很重要的技能，可知答案選A.

考點：教育類短文閱讀。