Of course, it S true that higher education is still important.

in class had ever taken such a course. Invariably a few hands would go up.

“What did you learn in that course？” I’d ask.

“Well, the main thing was learning how to face an audience, not to be inhibited (拘谨；抑制), not to be nervous, ”

Exactly, when you take a course in public speaking nowadays, you don’t hear much about grammar and vocabulary. Instead, you’re taught how not to be afraid or embarrassed, how to speak without a prepared script, how to reach out to the live audience before you. Public speaking is a matter of overcoming your longstanding nervous inhibitions.

It is the same in writing. The point of the whole thing is to overcome your nervous inhibi- tions, to break through the invisible barrier that separates you from the person who’ll read what y- ou wrote. You must learn to sit in front of your typewriter or dictating machine and reach out to the person at the other end of the line.

Of course, in public speaking, with the audience right in front of you, the problem is easier. Y ou can look at them and talk to them directly. In writing, you ’re alone. It needs an effort of your experience or imagination to take hold of that other person and talk to him or her. But that effort is necessary or at least it’s necessary until you’ve reached the point when you quite naturally and unconsciously “talk on paper.”

The main task of a public speech course is to ________.

A.teach spoken-language experience

B.teach how to use gestures to assist speech

C.help the learners overcome nervousness

D.teach how to control the volume of the speaker’s voice

Learning how to write is similar to learning how to speak in public in that a writer should ___________.A.overcome his or her nervousness in the first place

B.watch his or her grammar and vocabulary

C.collect a lot of data before writing

D.take hold of a reader and talk to him or her before writing

In the author’s opinion_________.A.writing needs more experience and skill than public speaking

B.both writing and public speaking require effort

C.writing is imaginative

D.public speaking is not so natural as writing

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage？A.Not many students feel the need to learn public speaking

B.Training is necessary before you can speak with script

C.In public speaking, the audience are more nervous than the speaker

D.Writing is just like making a public speech on paper

This selection is mainly about learning how to _______.A.make a public speech

B.talk on paper

C.behave properly in public speech

D.express strong emotion on paper

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

nyone in class had ever taken such a course. Invariably a few hands would go up.

"What did you learn in that course？" I'd ask.

"Well, the main thing was learning how to face an audience ... not to be inhibited(拘谨 )... not to be nervous Exactly, when you take a course in public speaking nowadays, you don' t hear much about grammar and vocabulary. Instead, you' re taught how not to be afraid or embarrassed, how to speak without a prepared script, how to read out to the live audience before you. Public speaking is a matter of overcoming your long-standing nervous inhibitions.

The same is true of writing. The point of the whole thing is to overcome your nervous inhibitions, to break through the invisible barrier that separates you from the person who' ll read what you wrote. You must learn to sit in front of your typewriter or dictating machine and read out to the person at the other end of the line.

Of course, in public speaking, with the audience right in front of you, the problem is easier. You can look at them and talk to them directly. In writing, you' re alone. It needs an effort of your experience or imagination to take hold of that other person and talk to him or her. But that effort is necessary -- or at least it' s necessary until you've reached the point when you quite naturally and unconsciously "talk on paper.

1.In the opinion of the author, public speaking is much easier than writing because（）.

A、public speaking requires less effort than writing

B、it' s unnecessary for you to write a lot for speech and you can say anything as you like

C、you face the audience directly in public speaking; while writing is otherwise

D、in public speaking, the audience have to listen to you whether they like it or not

2.The topic of the passage is（）.

A、how to be a good writer

B、how to be a good speaker

C、how to express yourself with your words

D、how to get rid of nervousness in public speaking

3.The public speech course mainly teaches students（）.

A、how to make an attractive speech using perfect grammar and vocabulary

B、how to express themselves exactly and vividly

C、how to collect data needed and organize it

D、how to get over their nervousness when making a speech

4.The similarity between making a public speech and writing is that（）.

A、you have to do a lot of preparation work beforehand

B、you should get over your nervous inhibitions

C、you should know grammar and vocabulary well to accomplish them

D、both of them have audience

5.The author of this passage probably is a （）.

A、boss

B、politician

C、writer

D、professor

A.Subjects of arts, sciences and languages are taken by most first year students

B.There are a number of other courses for students to choose from besides their major ones

C.Students would still get certain credits if they do not attend the courses

D.A typical course load means the credits of courses a student has for one semester

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1.The passage is written for the purpose of ______.

A.informing the reader of Direct Courses

B.introducing how to apply for Direct Courses

C.arguing for Direct Courses

2.Which of the following is NOT true about the Direct？ ()

A.It offers a great variety of courses.

B.It’s an e-learning experience.

C.It requires you to be skilled in computer.

3.Bases on the passage, we can infer that if we learn with Direct, we can______.

A.meet the tutors on line

B.have no contact with other students

C. join the discussion forums and seminar groups anytime

D. study English well

4.We can infer from the passage that if we want to learn with Direct, ____.

A.we must buy a laptop

B.we needn’t have our own computers

C.we need several computers at home

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A.make an appointment beforehand

B.go simply to the Direct centre every morning

C.go simply to the Direct centre during their opening hours

Some people hate everything that is modern. They cannot imagine how anyone can really like modern music; they

find it hard to accept the new fashions in clothing; they think that all modern painting is ugly; and they seldom

have a good word for the new buildings that are being built everywhere in the world. Such people look for

perfection in everything, and they take their standards of perfection from the past. They are usually impatient

with anyone who is brave enough to experiment with new or to express himself or the age in materials original

ways. It is, of course, true that many artists do not succeed in their work and instead produce works that can

only be considered as failures. If the work of art is a painting, the artist’s failure concerns himself alone, but if

it is a building, his failure concerns others too, because it may damage the beauty of the whole place. This does

sometimes happen, but it is completely untrue to say, as some people do, that modern architecture is nothing.

We can’t judge every modern building by the standards of the ancient time, even though we admire the ancient

buildings. Technologically, the modern buildings are more advanced. The modern architect knows he should learn

from the ancient works, but with his greater resources of knowledge and materials, he will never be content to

imitate the past. He is too proud to do that.

Some people hate everything that is modern because _______.

A. they are aged

B. they find it hard to accept modern things

C. they take their standards of perfection from the Greek

D. they look at things by the standards of the past

modern music; they find it hard to accept the new fashions in clothing; they think that all modern painting is ugly; and they seldom have a good word for the new buildings that are being built everywhere in the world. Such people look for perfection in everything, and they take their standards of perfection from the past. They are usually impatient with anyone who is brave enough to experiment with new or to express himself or the age in materials original ways.

It is, of course, true that many artists do not succeed in their work and instead produce works that can only be considered as failures. If the work of art is a painting, the artist’s failure concerns himself alone, but if it is a building, his failure concerns others too, because it may damage the beauty of the whole place. This does sometimes happen, but it is completely untrue to say, as some people do, that modern architecture is nothing. We can’t judge every modern building by the standards of the ancient time, even though we admire the ancient buildings. Technologically, the modern buildings are more advanced. The modern architect knows he should learn from the ancient works, but with his greater resources of knowledge and materials, he will never be content to imitate the past. He is too proud to do that.

Technologically, the modern buildings are more advanced. The sentence means _____.

A.the ancient architects had no technology

B.the modern architects use more advanced technology

C.the modern buildings are advanced because they are completely different from the ancient buildings

D.the modern buildings are more beautiful

Some people hate everything that is modern because _______.A.they are aged

B.they find it hard to accept modern things

C.they take their standards of perfection from the Greek

D.they look at things by the standards of the past

The writer thinks the failure of a building _______.A.means nothing

B.concerns others

C.concerns only the artist

D.concerns all the people in the world

The writer of the passage thinks that ________.A.it is true to say artists fail in their work

B.it is untrue to say artists fail in their work

C.it is true to say some artists fail in their work

D.it is true to say only painters fail in their work

The writer thinks that _________.A.we can’t judge buildings by the ancient standards

B.we can’t judge all the buildings by the ancient standards

C.we can’t judge all the modern buildings by the ancient standards

D.we can’t judge modern buildings

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

We have learnt a lot from the ______.

A．three month's training course

B．three-month training course

C．three-month-training course

D．three months training course

A.in spite

B.in the case

C.in the course

D.in case

A.to open, OK

B.opening, Of course

C.opening, Certainly not

D.to open, Good idea