What makes a successful speech? First, you should have a good speech script (稿子) so that your ideas and language can attract people"s attention. And some skills are necessary, too. Here are some suggestions on giving great speeches: ◆Beat nerves Relax yourself before and when making a speech. Practice your openingsentence three or four times. This will help make a sure start and a successful speech. When you stand on the stage, think of the audience (观众) as your family members and friends. ◆Keep it natural Natural body languages will help your speech: smile, stand straight and look at the audience. Do not drop your head or play with a pen. Also, dressing yourself nicely will help the audience feel respected. ◆Pace and pause (节奏和停顿) Pace and pause add color to your speech. Speak fast enough to keep people excited and slowly enough for people to fully understand you. After an important point, pause for a moment. It"ll change the atmosphere (气氛) in the audience. |
Tips on giving speeches
Main tips | Things to do | Advantage | Speech script | Have good 1_______ | People"s attention is attracted. | Suggested 2_______ | A: Practice opening sentence three or four times. B: Think of the audience as your family members and friends. | A: This can give you a sure start. B: This can help 3_______. | | A: Smile, stand straight and look at the audience. B: Dress yourself formally. | A: These 4_______ will help your speech. B: The audience will feel respected. | | A: Speak fast enough sometimes and slowly enough other times. B: Pause after an important point. | A: People are kept 5_______ and can 5_______ you. B: The atmosphere in the audience will be changed. |
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1. ideas and language 2. skills 3. relax yourself/beat nerves 4. natural body languages 5. excited; fully understand (答案不唯一) |
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完形填空。 | Everyone can feel stressed out because of too many things happening in your life. Teenagers, however, have 1 opportunities to get stressed than people in any other age group. Being a teenager is hard. You are not a children any more, but you are not 2 , even though you have to deal with some grow-up problems and made decisions by 3 . Families can be one of the biggest causes (原因) of stress, such as problems of arguing with 4 or brothers or sisters. Teenagers also have lots of stress from 5 , either from their teachers or from their classmates. Some teenagers also feel 6 about choosing their education after high school. Getting a place at university can be very difficult and some can"t 7 to go to university. It is hard for some teenagers to get a job after they graduate. There are so many young people finishing school 8 not enough jobs for them. Though there is a lot of stress, you can find many ways to 9 it. Talking to people is one of the best ways to deal with stress. It may sound 10 , but it is helpful. | ( )1. A. more ( )2. A. a baby ( )3. A. yourself ( )4. A. teachers ( )5. A. family ( )6. A. relaxed ( )7. A. afford ( )8. A. and ( )9. A. agree with ( )10. A. simple
| B. fewer B. a teenager B. himself B. parents B. society B. stressed B. offer B. but B. talk with B. difficult
| C. many C. an adult C. myself C. classmates C. school C. excited C. refuse C. or C. deal with C. good
| 阅读理解。 | Mr. Evans lived in a city. He was a bus driver in a company three years ago. He drove well and the people in the company all liked him. But a terrible accident changed (改变) his life. One spring he drove his bus with twenty-four workers to visit a place of interest. They had a good time there. But on their way back home, their bus was hit by a truck (卡车) because the truck driver was drunk (醉). Four workers were killed and half of the rest of the workers got badly injured. Mr. Evans was also injured. After he came out of hospital, he left the company and became a traffic policeman. He tried his best to stop the drivers from breaking the traffic riles. He worked hard and was strict with the drivers, especially the drivers that were drunk. So they were afraid of him. But the people liked him, for he was a good policeman. | 1. How did the accident happen? | A. The truck hit the bus. B. The bus hit the truck. C. The bus hit a big tree. | 2. How many people were injured in the accident? | A. Four. B. Ten C. Eleven. | 3. What did Mr. Evans do after he left hospital? | A. He was a bus driver. B. He was a policeman. C. He was a truck driver. | 阅读理解。 | If you open today"s newspaper, what do you see? Ads! Look through a magazine. More ads! Turn on the TV. Still more ads! Everywhere you look, someone has something to sell. Here are some ways ads get us to buy. Some ads use famous people. Stars are paid to sell a product. Think about it. Do they really know about medicine? Do they know about soft drinks? There people may be famous, but they may not know about what they are selling. Some ads make you think you"re getting the word of an expert. They say, "Doctor said." A man in a white coat comes on TV. He looks nice."I use Bright and White," he says. This man looks like a doctor. But he is an actor. He has been paid to sell this product. Does soap have anything to do with a pretty child? But ads may show their product with something nice, such as the sun, the flowers and so on. Such an ad is about feelings rather than facts. Ads are full of strong words. Words like "new" and "improved" have strong influence. They can help a product sell. The soap may be called "Spring Rain". A car may be called "Tiger". Strong words work on our feelings. Some ads make promises (承诺). But can they keep them? No. Some ads use our fear of being too late. "Buy now!" they say. "Selling ends soon." Check to see if this is true. Don"t hurry. Take time to think. All ads hope we will buy something, do something, or think in a certain way. Know what ads are doing. Ask questions to yourself. Don"t let their words and pictures fool you. | 1. Why do famous people appear in ads? | A. Because they know every product well. B. Because they want to serve the people. C. Because they can make money from the ads. | 2. The underlined word "expert" in Paragraph Three probably means _______. | A. 主持人 B. 专家 C. 演员 | 3. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? | A. The famous people may not know about what they are selling. B. Some ads make promises to people and they can keep them. C. Ads are full of strong words, such as "new" and "improved". | 4. According to the passage, we know that "Tiger" might be the name of _______. | A. a kind of car B. a kind of computer C. a kind of soap | 5. What does the writer want to tell us? | A. We should not always believe the ads. B. We should buy things that ads ask us to buy. C. We should think about ads before buying things. | 根据短文内容和首字母提示,把所缺单词的正确形式完整地填写在短文下的横线上。 | At school many things happen to us. We may feel excited when we succeed in a school play. We may feel sorry if we lose an important (1)g______. We want to keep the memory (记忆) in our lives. How to keep memories? Our teacher, Mr. Smith, has taught us how to (2)r______ things to make our own yearbook. A yearbook is a kind of book which is used to memory exciting moments. It"s usually made at the end of year.Last (3)D______, we began to make our yearbook. First we chose the persons that had done something special, then some students interviewed them, some (4)w______ down their stories, others took photos of them. Finally our teacher helped us to put the things (5)t______. Then we had our first yearbook. | 完形填空。 | Mr. White was holding a party at home to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. To make him happy, one of his women friends 1 to sing a song for him. Now she was singing. One guest turned to a 2 by his side and criticized the singer. "What a 3 voice!" he said. "Do you know 4 she is?" "Yes," was the answer," She is my wife." "Oh, I beg your pardon," the man said. "Of course her voice isn"t bad, 5 the song is very bad. I wondered who wrote that awful song?" "I did," was the answer. | ( )1. A. dreamed ( )2. A. woman ( )3. A. terrible ( )4. A. what ( )5. A. and
| B. decided B. girl B. beautiful B. who B. or
| C. forgot C. man C. exciting C. where C. so
| D. remembered D. boy D. sweet D. which D. but
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