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,such moments are usually not obvious(明顯的) 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 doesn’t really matter.If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech—“I Have a Dream”,you may notice that he stumbles(結(jié)巴) over 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 a mistake in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication(交流).They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition.But,in fact,the listeners are not looking for a perfect performance.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 perfect.Once you free your mind of this,you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.
【小題1】The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will _______.

A．be smarter than youB．notice your mistakes
C．do better than youD．know what you are talking about
【小題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
【小題3】It can be inferred from the passage that _______.
A．giving a speech is like giving a performance
B．one or 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
【小題4】What would be the best title for 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


【小題1】B
【小題2】A
【小題3】B
【小題4】C

解析【小題1】這是一道推斷題。根據(jù)第一段“Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say.”可知如果你在演講中出現(xiàn)了錯(cuò)誤,例如弄錯(cuò)了句子的順序,或者沒(méi)有及時(shí)停頓,不用在意,因?yàn)闆](méi)人會(huì)注意到你的錯(cuò)誤。
【小題2】這是一道推斷題。根據(jù)第二段“Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech,that doesn’t really matter....Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making.”可知聽(tīng)眾主要的注意力在演講的內(nèi)容上,所以就算有一些錯(cuò)誤也不會(huì)被記住。
【小題3】這是一道推理題。根據(jù)第三段“Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human.”可知有時(shí)犯一兩個(gè)錯(cuò)誤會(huì)使演講更加有吸引力,不一定是壞事。
【小題4】這是一道主旨題。本文的主要觀點(diǎn)是完美的演講是不可能的,聽(tīng)眾的注意力主要在演講的內(nèi)容上,偶爾犯錯(cuò)誤也沒(méi)有關(guān)系。

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