Eye contact is a nonverbal technique that helps the speaker “sell” his or her ideas to an audience. Besides its persuasive powers, eye contact helps hold listener interest.
A successful speaker must maintain eye contact with an audience. To have good rapport (关系) with listeners, 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 their listeners. Both are likely to lose 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-disposed by their target but also as more believable and earnest.”
To show the potency of eye contact in daily life, we have only to consider how passers-by behave when their glances happen to meet on the street. At one extreme are those people who feel obliged to smile when they make eye contact. At the other extreme are those who feel awkward and immediately look away. To make eye contact, it seems, is to make a certain link with someone.
Eye contact with an audience also lets a speaker know and monitor the listeners. It is, in fact, essential 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 feedback from listeners should play an important role in shaping a speech as it is delivered.
1. This passage is mainly concerned with ______.
2. According to the passage, a good speaker must ______.
3. The word “target” in the last sentence of the second paragraph can best be replaced by ______.
4. In daily life, when the glances of two passers-by happen to meet, these two persons will inevitably ______.
5. Eye contact with an audience, according to the author, has all the following benefits for the speaker EXCEPT that it doesn’t ______.
问题1选项
A.the importance of eye contact
B.the potency of nonverbal techniques
C.successful speech delivery
D.an effective way to gain visual feedbacks
问题2选项
A.“sell” his or her ideas to an audience
B.maintain direct eye contact with listeners
C.be very persuasive and believable
D.be exceptionally well-disposed
问题3选项
A.“destination”
B.“goal”
C.“audience”
D.“followers”
问题4选项
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
问题5选项
A.help the speaker to control the audience
B.help the speaker to gain audience interest and esteem
C.help the speaker to know whether he is talking too much about a certain point
D.help the speaker to analyze his audience when he is beginning his speech
第1题:A
第2题:B
第3题:C
第4题:D
第5题:D
第1题:
主旨大意题。结合全文可知，文章首先提出了目光接触这个技巧，接着介绍了具体的做法以及它发挥的重要作用。因此A选项“目光接触的重要性”最符合文章主旨。B选项“非语言技巧的效力”，文章只介绍了目光接触这一种非语言技巧，而不是对非语言技巧效力的概述，所以B错误。C选项“成功的演讲”，良好的目光接触只是成功演讲的因素之一，C选项过于宽泛，所以C错误。D选项“获得视觉反馈的一种有效方法”只是目光接触的作用之一，不能全面地概括文章主旨，所以D错误。
第2题:
客观细节题。由题干可以定位到文章第二段第一句A successful speaker must maintain eye contact with an audience.（一个成功的演讲者必须与听众保持目光接触。），说明本文认为成功的演讲者必须与听众保持目光接触。因此B选项“与听众保持直接的目光接触”正确。A选项“向听众‘推销’他或她的想法”，C选项“具有很强的说服力和可信度”，D选项“非常友好”都是保持目光接触起到的作用和结果，所以A、C、D错误。
第3题:
语义推测题。由题干关键词“target”可以定位到文章第二段最后一句People who maintain eye contact while speaking, whether from a podium or from across the table, are “regarded not only as exceptionally well-disposed by their target but also as more believable and earnest.”（无论是在讲台上还是在桌子对面讲话时，保持目光接触的人“不仅会被他们的听众视为非常友好的人，而且会被视为更可信、更认真的人。”），说明“target”在文中是指“讲话的听众”的意思。因此C选项“听众”正确。A选项“目的地”，B选项“目标”，D选项“追随者”均不符合题意，所以A、B、D错误。
第4题:
推理判断题。由题干可以定位到文章第三段To show the potency of eye contact in daily life, we have only to consider how passers-by behave when their glances happen to meet on the street. At one extreme are those people who feel obliged to smile when they make eye contact. At the other extreme are those who feel awkward and immediately look away. To make eye contact, it seems, is to make a certain link with someone.（为了显示目光交流在日常生活中的作用，我们只需要考虑路人在街上偶然相遇时的目光是如何表现的。一个极端是那些在目光接触时觉得必须微笑的人。另一种极端是那些感到尴尬，会立刻把目光移开的人。进行目光交流，似乎是为了与某人建立某种联系。），说明在日常生活中在这种情况下，不同的人有不同的反应或表现，并不是非做出某种表现或反应不可。A选项“向对方微笑”，B选项“感到尴尬并立即移开目光”是两种极端的情况，不代表一定会发生，所以A, B错误。C选项“试图与对方进行交谈”，建立联系不一定意味着进行谈话，所以C错误。因此D选项“以上都不是”正确。
第5题:
客观细节题。A选项“帮助演讲者控制听众”，由原文Eye contact is a nonverbal technique that helps the speaker “sell” his or her ideas to an audience.（目光接触是一种非语言技巧，有助于演讲者向听众“推销”他或她的想法。）可知，目光接触有助于让听众认同演讲者的想法，是对听众的一种控制，A选项属于目光接触的好处，排除A。B选项“帮助演讲者获得听众的兴趣和尊重”，由原文Some speakers focus exclusively on their notes. Others gaze over the heads of their listeners. Both are likely to lose audience interest and esteem.（有些演讲者只专注于他们的笔记。有些人的目光越过听众的头顶。两种做法都有可能失去观众的兴趣和尊重。）可知，目光接触有助于演讲者获得听众的兴趣和尊重，B选项属于目光接触的好处，排除B。C选项“帮助演讲者了解他是否在某一点上说得太多了”，由原文Visual cues from audience members can indicate that a speech is dragging, that the speaker is dwelling on a particular point for too long（听众的视觉线索可以表明演讲拖沓，演讲者在某一点上停留的时间过长）可知，目光接触有助于演讲者了解自己的演讲是否冗长，C选项属于目光接触的好处，排除C。D选项“帮助演讲者在开始演讲时分析他的听众”，由原文Eye contact with an audience also lets a speaker know and monitor the listeners. It is, in fact, essential for analyzing an audience during a speech.（与听众的目光接触也能让演讲者了解并观察听众。事实上，这对于在演讲中分析听众是必不可少的。）可知，目光接触有助于演讲者在演讲全程分析听众，而不只是演讲开始时，D选项表述不符合原文，所以本题选D。
