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His speech was so welcome that it was constantly _____ by applause.
A.interrupted
B.disturbed
C.distracted
D.interpreted
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（1）According to the article, it was the two characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn thatmade Mark Twain known by the world.
（2）We can learn from the article that before his first speech, Twain felt worried.
（3）According to the article, Twain' s speeches were amusing and popular.
（4）According to the article, Twain' s book The Innocents Abroad is mainly about his speechtours around the world.
（5）According to the article, Twain didn' t stop giving publlic speeches, because he was highly paid.
In English, people usually refer to one thing by means of speaking another thing but they are in the same category. For example, we can say "A young man feels sad about this accident," but we also can say "A young heart feels sad about this accident." " A young heart" heare refers to "the young man." This is one kind of metaphors used not only in daily speech but quite often in literary works. So is the case in Shakespeare's works. Rhetoricians call this kind of metaphor synecdoche. In Act Scene 2, Puck saysas The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort, Who Pyramus presented in their sport, Forsook his scene and entered in a brake. "The shallowest thick skin" in this speech refers to
A、a cat.
B、a dog
C、Bottom
D、Titania
Why Are You Laughing？
Man is the only animal that laughs. Wily is this true？ What makes us respond as we do to pleasurable experiences？ What is the history of this "happy convulsion(痉挛)", as someone once termed it, and just what is its function？
We are not short of theories to explain the mystery; for centuries, biologists, philosophers, psychologists and medical men have sought a definitive explanation of laughter. One writer theorized that its function is to intimidate others or to gain stature over them by humiliating them. Another took the opposite view: that we laugh in order not to cry. A psychologist offered the explanation that laughter functions as a remedy for painful experiences, and that it serves to defend a person against what the psychologist termed: "the many minor pains to which man is exposed". In the seventeenth century a writer set forth the theory that we laugh when we compare ourselves with others and find ourselves superior: in effect, we laugh at the frailty of others.
Virtually every theory has concerned with either the structure or the function of laughter, whereas relatively few have been devoted to the question of its origin. I propose to offer a theory which, so far as I am aware, has not previously been set forth, that only those animals capable of speech are capable of laughter, and that therefore man, being the only animal that speaks, is the only animal that laughs.
Those of us who have observed chimpanzees closely feel quite confident that the chimpanzee occasionally exhibits behavior. that looks very much like a primitive human laughter. This behavior, however, has been observed only in a human context; whether or not it occurs under natural conditions is dubious; but the very fact that under any conditions an ape is capable of such behavior. is more than passing interest—for does it not indicate that early man had the rudiments(初级阶段) of laughter？
Laughter is defined as an emotional response, expressive normally of joy, involving characteristic sounds of the voice and movements of the features and the body. The joy may take the form. of gladness, amusement, ridicule, and so on. Why should laughter be as intimately associated with the power of speech as I have suggested？ Speech is the verbal, or vocal, expression of symbols and the relations between symbols. Probably at about the same time speech evolved, laughter originated too, as a kind of semiverbalized social expression of pleasure. With the development of speech, the number of occasions producing sudden experiences of pleasure increased, and, since laughter was closely associated with speech, man had this means of expressing his pleasure. Having broken the "sound barrier", as it were, man could express with laughter what other animals could not. Since the lower animals had no speech, they encountered fewer pleasurable situations and, furthermore, were unable to laugh no matter what the stimulation.
Once the first laughter had been laughed by primitive man, with such apparently pleasurable effects all around, laughter began to take on an intrinsic value within the society of man. The person possessing the ability to communicate pleasure in a loud laugh began to enjoy social advantages over his more serious colleagues; he became a "good mixer", socially selected and liked by society. Thus the process of natural selection would tend to operate in favor of those able to express their pleasurable states in laughter, as compared with those not so able. Throughout the course of evolution, laughter would become established throughout the human species as a function of sociological and psychological value.
Thus laughter gradually became established as a capacity among virtually all human beings. In addition, laughter's infectious quality, helped distribute it as a characteristic common to all mankind. Laughter was advantageous; therefore it su
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
A.interfered
B.interrupted
C.troubled
D.disturbed
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A．on
B．in
C．by
D．at
A good speaker always organizes his speech in a/an _____ way so that the audience can follow his ideas from beginning to end.
A.random
B.orderly
C.none of the above
D.emotional
•For each question 18--18, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D) on your Answer Sheet for the answer you choose.
LOSING AN ACCENT TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS
It was painful for Irwin Layton to warn one of his recently promoted managers that he had to correct his speech--or it could cost him his career.
The word "voltage" came out of Edwin's mouth sounding like "woltage", and "this" sounded like "dis". This often resulted in mistakes being made in the shipments he ordered. "I was really forced into submission. They said, 'Either you improve your accent or your chances of getting promoted to senior management won't be good,'" said Edwin.
Edwin is a junior manager making $ 51,000 a year at a manufacturing company in Mountain View. Despite of mixed feelings, he hired a speech coach to help him out. He is not alone. Accent reduction is rapidly turning into a major business for speech coaches in the Bay Area and other large cities. Young, first-generation foreign professionals in America hoping to improve their careers appear to make up the majority of those paying to get rid of their accents.
"I have people whose command of English is good--they've gone to universities here in the United States, but when they go into the workplace, they are held back," said Arthur Compton, founder of the Institute of Language & Phonology in San Francisco.
Edwin said he was embarrassed and tried to ignore incidents throughout his career when colleagues would point out his accent and do imitations of his pronunciations for fun. Edwin's experiences early in his career made him very sensitive to the problems he faced with his accent, and, like many others, he compensated by pushing himself to great extremes in education.
"I felt that just because I had an accent, some people thought I was stupid," Edwin said. "They lost patience. They did not want to wait to listen for what I was trying to say. It made me feel so bad. I knew I had so much to offer--my primary motive for working there was to do what I could to improve the company. Yet, none of that seemed to matter to them because they didn't have patience."
Speech coaches and many other professionals say that some Americans have a prejudice against those who speak with an accent.
Losing an accent is hard work. Each language has certain sounds, as we can tell from the many different alphabets, that are just not found in other languages. We learn as babies to make these sounds by moving the lips, mouth, and tongue muscles in set patterns. So a speech coach tries and resets these patterns for people who speak other languages.
For 13 weeks, and at a cost of $ 795, Edwin spent an hour each week with a speech instructor, pronouncing, over and over again, compound words such as "zookeeper", preposition phrases such as "in regard to", as well as words such as "this" and "voltage", all the while looking into a mirror at his mouth. Seeing himself allowed him to have a visual image to go along with the sounds he was making.
"When class was over, I was exhausted," he said. But following the long procession of lessons, he improved by 78 percent, received a healthy injection of confidence, and admitted that he should have done it sooner. His boss, Layton, called it a "win-win" situation, and is so enthusiastic that he is sponsoring a second employee in the program.
How did Mr. Edwin's accent bring trouble to his work？
A．He could not get along well with his colleagues.
B．He made mistakes at work just because of his accent.
C．His talent and passion for work were ignored.
D．Both B and Ｃ.
It is important that the teacher should be in possession of the necessary information. This can generally be obtained from books. It is possible to get from books some idea of the mechanics of speech, and of what we call general phonetic theory. It is also possible in this way to get a clear mental picture of the relationship between the sounds of different languages, between the speech habits of English people and those, say, of your students. Unless the teacher has such picture, any comments he may make on his students' pronunciation are superficial.
What is it that teachers are said to be inclined to forget？
A．The practical teaching of languages
B．The importance of a good accent
C．The principle of phonetic theory
D．The teaching of pronunciation in the classroom
In his inaugural speech,______said that "the only tiling we have to fear is fear itself."
A．Abraham Lincoln
B．Theodore Roosevelt
C．Woodrow Wilson
D．Franklin Roosevelt
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