Learning how to write is like taking a course in public speaking. I’ d ask whether anyone 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

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Learning how to write is like taking a course in public speaking. I’ d ask whether anyone 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、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

2、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

3、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

4、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

5、The author of this passage probably is a ________

A、boss

B、 politician

C、 writer

D、 professor

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正确答案：1A 2D 3B 4C 5D
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