大学英语四级阅读理解题
Passage 1
Eye contact is a nonverbal technique that helps the speaker "ll" his or her ideas to an audience. Beside its persuasive powers, eye contact helps hold 1tstener interest. A successful speaker must maintain eye contact with an audience. To have good rapport (关系 ) with 1isteners, a speaker should maintain direct eye contact for at least 75 percent of the time. some speakers focus exclusively on their notes. Others gaze over the heads of the1r listeners. Both are likely to lo audience interest and esteem People who maintain eye contact while speaking, whether from a podium (演讲台) or from across the table, are "regarded not only as
exceptionally well-dispod by their target but also as more believable and earnest."
To show the potency of ey6 contact in daily life, we have only to consider how pasrs-by behave when their glances happen to meet on the street. At one extreme are tho people who feel obliged to smile when they make eye contact. At the other extreme are for who feel awkward and immediately look away. To make eye contact, it ems, is to make a certain 1ink with someone.-
" Eye contact with an audience also 1ets a speaker. know and monitor the listeners. It is, in fact, esntial for analyzing an audience during a speech. Visual cues(暗示)from audience
members can indicate that a speech is dragging, that the speaker is dwelling on a particular point for too long, or that a particular point requires further explanation. As we have pointed out,
visual feed-back form listeners should play an important role in shaping a speech as it is delivered.
l. This passage is mainly concerned with____________
a. the importance of eye contact
b. the potency of nonverbal techniques劳动的名人名言
c. successful speech delivery
d. an effective way to gain visual feedbacks 2. According to the passage a good speaker must
___________________.
a. “ll” his or her ideas to an audience
b. maintain direct eye contact with listeners
c. be very persuasive and believable
d. be exceptionally well-dispod 3. The wo rd “target” in the last ntence of the first paragraph can best be replaced by ____.
a. destination
b. goal
c. audience
d. followers
4. In daily life, when the glances of two pasrs-by happen to meet, the persons will inevitably ________.
a. smile to each other
b. feel awkward and look away immediately
c. try to make a conversation with each other
d. none of the above
5. Eye contact with an audience, according to the author, has all the following benefits for the speaker EXCEPT that it doesn?t help the speaker_________.
wennya. to control the audience
b. to gain audience interest and esteem
c. to know whether he is talking too much about a certain point
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d. to analyze his audience when he is beginning his speech
Passage 2
After the very active and successful tenure (任职)of office by the Senegale president as the
head of the Organization of African Unit, it was highly logical to think that the successor, whoever might be, would have a difficult task in doing a better job.
The Congole president t to work as soon as he was elected. His first step was to suggest to the dean of heads of state prent in the Ethiopia capital, President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, to summon a meeting of the leaders of countries that lies clo to South Africa. Its aim:
to define a strategy in order to overcome the reprisals(报复行为) that the racist regime of秦诗
Pretoria is likely to take against its neighbors in ca
sanctions(制裁)are impod by the
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President Sassou Nguesso has already undertaken a number of trips abroad. He thus went to Harare (Zimbabwe) where he delivered a speech, on September 1, on behalf of Africa before the summit meeting of non-aligned (不结盟)nations.
At the end of September, he was in New York, for a statement before the General Asmbly of the United Nations, and then in Washington, for
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talks with high-ranking members of the Reagan Administration. He then went to Ottawa, for consultations with leading members of the Canadian government.
The Congole president?s aim, in all the endeavors, is to convince still reluctant countries of the imperious (紧迫的) necessity of imposing sanctions against the racist regime of Pretoria.
1. In the first paragraph, the word “successor” refers to
_________.鸭血粉丝汤做法
a. a person who enjoyed a successful career in politics
b. a person who was very popular in the political arena
c. the person who was to lead the organization
d. the president head of the organization
2. According to the passage, Sassou Nguesso ________.
a. is Congole
b. knew that is was very difficult for him to be elected
高考作文格式c. was elected without any opposition
d. has held a meeting in the Ethiopian capital
3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
a. President Saasou Nguesso has decided to visit as many American countries as possible
b. President Saasou Nguesso made a suggestion to President Kenneth Kaunda that a meeting be held of the leaders of countries that lies clo to South Africa.
c. President Saasou Nguesso went to Harare and delivered a speech there
d. If sanctions are impod against South Africa by the
international community, the racist regime of Pretoria will probably revenge on its neighbors.
4. We may draw the conclusion that President Saasou Nguesso has been working really hard to
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____.
a. prove himlf a truth-worthy president
b. convince some reluctant countries that it is highly necessary to impo sanctions against the racist regime of Pretoria.
c. show to the whole world the strength and power of the
Organization of Africa Unity d. ek financial support from some advanced countries to promote African economy 5. This piece is most probably taken from ______.
a. a newspaper report
b. a biology
c. a history book
d. a Who?s Who
阿富汗猎犬Passage 3
Another common type of reasoning is the arch for caus and
results. We want to know whether cigarettes really do cau lung cancer, what caus malnutrition, the decay of cities, or the decay of teeth. We are equally interested in effects: what is the effect of sulphur or lead in the atmosphere, of oil spills and raw wage in rivers and the a,
of staying up late on the night before an examination?
Causal reasoning may go from cau to effect or from effect to cau. Either way, we reason from what we know to what we want to find out.
