Question

My teachers suggested that I see a speech specialist (专家) 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. A

2. B

3. C

4. C

5. B

【解析】

试题分析：本文主要讲述的是作者在专家培训之前，语速很快，也没有与听者有眼神交流。在专家第一次给作者本人上课时，因为说的太快，几乎每句话都会被专家叫停重来，慢慢地作者的语速变慢，专家也不再打断。作者从开始认为演讲好坏是不重要的，转变到认为演讲是一门应该掌握的技能。

1.推理判断题。a newspaper一份报纸an advertisement一份广告 a detective story一个侦探故事 a science book一本科学书。本文是关于如何演讲的，不会出现在广告，侦探故事和科学书上，故选A。

2.细节理解题。从 I told her I thought it was not important.我告诉她我认为这不重要，可知作者在上专家的课之前认为好的演讲并不重要，得知答案选B。

3.细节理解题。从 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.她测试我之后，说我讲的太快，没有充分的眼神交流。我得知当我与某人眼神交流时，这意味着我正在和那人说话，我也能看到他或她在思考我正在说的，可知作者说的太快，没有给听者时间想问题，故选C。

4.细节理解题。从 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.每次我讲快了，专家都让我停下来，重新开始。开始几乎每句话都停下来，经过多次练习，专家不再打断他，说明他的语速变慢了，故选C。

5.标题归纳题。从Speech is an important skill to have演讲是一门需要掌握的很重要的技能，可知答案选A.

考点：教育类短文阅读。