【中级英语听力】17
时间：2018-12-28 作者：英语课 分类：中级类英语听力
Students of public speaking continually ask, "How can I overcome self-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before an audience?" Did you ever notice in looking from a train window that some horses feed near the track and never even pause to look up at the thundering cars, while just ahead at the next railroad crossing a farmer's wife will be nervously 1 trying to quiet her scared horse as the train goes by? How would you cure a horse that is afraid of cars - graze him in a back-woods lot where he would never see steam-engines or automobiles 2, or drive or pasture him where he would frequently see the machines? Apply horse-sense to ridding yourself of self-consciousness and fear: face an audience as frequently as you can, and you will soon stop shying. You can never attain 3 freedom from stage fright by reading a treatise 4. A book may give you excellent suggestions on how best to conduct yourself in the water, but sooner or later you must get wet, perhaps even strangle and be "half scared to death." There are a great many "wetless" bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them. To plunge 5 is the only way. Practice, practice, PRACTICE in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.
1. What does the writer say to use to rid yourself of self-consciousness and fear?
Common sense
Nonsense
Horse-sense
Sixth sense
2. The best way to learn to speak in front of an audience is do what?
Speak quietly
Practice speaking before an audience
Speak to yourself
Read a book
3. What does the author compare practicing public speaking to?
Learning how to swim
Being a farmer
Crossing the railroad tracks
Riding a horse
- He bit his lip nervously,trying not to cry.他紧张地咬着唇，努力忍着不哭出来。
- He paced nervously up and down on the platform.他在站台上情绪不安地走来走去。
- When automobiles become popular,the use of the horse and buggy passed away. 汽车普及后，就不再使用马和马车了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Automobiles speed in an endless stream along the boulevard. 宽阔的林荫道上，汽车川流不息。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- I used the scientific method to attain this end. 我用科学的方法来达到这一目的。
- His painstaking to attain his goal in life is praiseworthy. 他为实现人生目标所下的苦功是值得称赞的。