Public speaking is a common cause of stress f...

Public speaking is a common cause of stress for everyone. The idea of standing in front of a large group with all eyes on you can make you feel fearful in almost all kinds of situation, for example giving a presentation in class, proposing a toast at dinner or making a work-related presentation. It seems to be a fear that’s impossible to overcome. If you have ever experienced this, you know while the anxiety may develop at the actual event, it is a feeling that begins much earlier than the actual day. There are many ways you can work on your confidence and prepare yourself for a public speaking event.

A consultant specializing (专门研究) in presentation skills can help you to overcome your sense of panic. Working with a consultant does not indicate that you have a major problem; it is only an approach to receiving guidance on relaxation strategies, such as deep breathing, which can help you deal with public speaking problems with ease.

Consultants can also help you work on your confidence. Confidence is extremely important in public speaking as it lets a speaker sound more convincing. Even well-established public speakers practice techniques such as meditation (沉思冥想) to calm themselves before a public appearance.

It’s well worth the time and effort to overcome the fear of public speaking, particularly if talks and presentations are part of your work description. Keep in mind that many of those around you are also struggling with this fear of public speaking. It will help you to become an able speaker if you can prepare beforehand. For example, you can put in time on planning your presentation in detail and practicing it many times in secret. As you get more and more familiar with your material, you’ll be able to fine-tune (微调) the details of your presentation and this will make you a confident speaker. Your speech will become excellent in terms of style and content.

Remember that the more you get into this pattern of feeling good about yourself, the stronger you will feel about approaching events when you have to make a speech. You can also work on physical details such as adjusting your tone (音调) before the presentation by doing some warm-up exercises.

In a word, believing in yourself and presenting yourself well can help you deeply impress your audience. And after a few speeches you’ll notice yourself overcoming the sense of panic that you now feel in public speaking situations.

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Stress is one of the most common causes of health problems in modern life. Too much stress results in physical, emotional, and mental health problems.

There are numerous physical effects of stress. Stress can affect the heart. It can increase the pulse rate, make the heart miss beats, and can cause high blood pressure. Stress can affect the respiratory (呼吸的) system. It can lead to asthma and cause a person to breathe too fast, resulting in a loss of important carbon dioxide. Stress can affect the stomach. It can cause stomachaches and problems of digesting food. These are only a few examples of the wide range of illnesses and symptoms resulting from stress.

Emotions are also easily affected by stress. People suffering from stress often feel anxious. They may have panic attacks and feel tired all the time. When people are under stress, they often overreact to little problems. For example, a normally gentle parent under a lot of stress at work may yell at a child for dropping a glass of juice. Stress can make people angry, moody, or nervous.

Long-term stress can lead to a variety of serious mental illnesses. Depression, an extreme feeling of sadness and hopelessness, can be the result of continued and increasing stress. Alcoholism and other addictions often develop as a result of overuse of alcohol or drugs to try to relieve（释放）stress. If stress is allowed to continue, then one’s mental health is put at risk.

It is obvious that stress is a serious problem. It attacks the body. It affects the emotions. Untreated, it may eventually result in mental illness. Stress has a great influence on the health, our feelings and our minds. So, reduce stress: stop the world and rest for a while.

1.What physical effects does stress result in?

A.Overreacting to little problems.

B.Making blood pressure low.

C.Suffering from depression.

D.Increasing the pulse rate.

2.Which one belongs to the emotional problem?

A.Alcohol abuse.

B.Drug addiction.

C.MuchAnxiety.

D.Heartbeat missing.

3.What does the fourth paragraph mainly talk about?

A.Stress causing mental problems.

B.Stress causing physical problems.

C.Stress causing emotional problems.

D.Stress causing panic attacks.

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Almost everyone is afraid of something --- snakes, heights, public speaking and so on.

It is normal and can even be helpful to experience fear sometimes. In dangerous situations, fear can keep our bodies alert (警醒的) so that we can act quickly to protect ourselves.

But for some people, fear develops into a “phobia”, which is a strong and unreasonable fear of something. For example, the majority of us feel a little scared when looking down from a tall building. But people with height phobia may have trouble breathing, feel dizzy or turn down a great job just because the company is on the 20th floor.

Phobias can prevent you from living a normal life. “People with spider phobia would stay out of their home or dormitory room for days if they thought a spider was present,” Katherina Hauner, a researcher at Northwestern University, US, told ABC news. This is why scientists have been trying to find a cure for this disease.

Since fear comes from experience --- from what we are told, what we see others experience and what happens to us --- some scientists think if they can “rewrite” these unpleasant memories, they might be able to help people overcome their phobias.

In a study by Hauner and other scientists, participants with spider phobia were asked to first touch a spider with a paintbrush. Seeing that it was not actually dangerous, they then tried touching it while wearing a glove. Finally, they could hold it with their hands.

Certain medicine has also been found to be helpful. Back in 2010, researchers at the University of Hiroshima, Japan, injected (注射) a special medicine into a fish --- who was afraid of light --- to turn off the fear center in its brain. From then on, the fish no longer feared light.

While the search for solutions to phobias is making great progress, it’s an open question whether getting rid of fear is good. Some people want to use these methods to make soldiers fight harder in wars by taking away their sense of fear. Dave Smithson of the charity Anxiety UK thinks that’s a bad idea. “It’s fear that prevents us from doing crazy things,” he says. “There’s a name for people who don’t have fear of consequences: psychopaths (精神变态者).

1.The main point of the article is to ___________.

A. show us what kind of role fear plays in our lives

B. discuss if it is good to try to get rid of fear

C. inform us of fear and phobia

D. discuss scientific studies related to fear

2.How does the writer make the meaning of “phobia” clear?

A. By making comparisons.                                     B. By giving examples.

C. By giving data in numbers.                               D. By giving descriptions.

3.Which of the following shows the progress scientists have made in finding solutions to phobia?

A. New medicine can shut off fear centers in animal brains whenever needed.

B. They can use phobias to keep our bodies alert so that we can protect ourselves.

C. They can now reduce the pain which is connected with phobia.

D. They have succeeded in helping some people ignore memories related to phobia.

4.Which of the following would Dave Smithson probably agree with?

A. There is nothing to fear except fear itself.

B. We should not let fear affect our decisions.

C. Fear is not a completely bad thing.

D. Without fear, everyone would be brave.

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It is, everyone agrees, a huge task that the child performs when he learns to speak, and the fact that he does so in so short a period of time challenges explanation.

Language learning begins with listening. Individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking and late starters are often long listeners. Most children will “obey” spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly accurate (精确) as a description of the eager and happy cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gestures and by making questioning noises.

Any attempt to trace (探察) the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out to show joy, sadness, and so on. But since these cannot be said to show the baby’s intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new sounds. This self-imitation (自我模仿) leads on to imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as a speech.

1．The third paragraph is mainly about ____

A．the development of babies’ early forms of language

B．the difficulties of babies in learning to speak

C．babies’ strong desire to communicate

D．babies’ intention to communicate

2．The author’s purpose in writing the second paragraph is to show that children ____.

A．usually obey without asking questions

B．are not active in the process of learning to speak

C．are born cooperative

D．learn to speak by listening

3．From the passage we learn that ____.

A．early starters can learn to speak within only six months

B．children show a strong desire to communicate by making noises

C．imitation plays an important role in learning to speak

D．children have various difficulties in learning to speak

4．The best title for this passage would be ____.

A．How Babies Learn to Speak    B．Early Forms of Language

C．A Huge Task for Children       D．Noise Making and Language Learning

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Depression is the second most common cause of disability worldwide after back pain, according to a review of research. The disease must be treated as a global public health priority (优先考虑的事), experts report in the journal PLOS Medicine. The study compared depression with more than 200 other diseases and injuries as a cause of disability. “Globally, only a small part of patients have opportunities to be treated,” the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

Depression was ranked at number two as a global cause of disability, but its effects varied in different countries and regions. For example, rates of major depression were highest in Afghanistan and lowest in Japan. In the UK, depression was ranked number three in terms of years when people lived with a disability.

Dr Alize Ferrari from the University of Queensland’s School of Population Health led the study.　　 “Depression is a big problem and we definitely need to pay more attention to it than we do now,” she told BBC News. “There’s still more work to be done in terms of awareness of the disease and also successful ways of treating it. The burden is different between countries, so the rate of depression tends to be higher in low and middle income countries and lower in high income countries.” Policy-makers have made an effort to bring depression to the forefront, but there is still a lot more work to be done.”

“There’re lots of confusions we know related to mental health,” Prof. Alize Ferrari explained. “What one person recognizes as disabling might be different to another person and might be different across countries as well, there are lots of cultural effects and explanations that are related to depression, which makes it more important to raise awareness of the size of the problem and also signs and how to find depression.”

The data—for the year 2010—follows similar studies in 1990 and 2000 looking at the global burden of depression. Commenting on the study, Dr Daniel Chisholm, a health economist at the department of mental health and substance abuse (药物滥用) at the WHO said depression was a very disabling condition.

“It's a big public health challenge and a big problem to be thought about but not enough is being done. Around the world only a tiny part of people get any sort of treatment or diagnosis.” Dr Daniel Chisholm said.

The WHO recently started a global mental health action plan to raise awareness of depression among policy-makers.

1. According to the passage, which of the following ranks NO. 1 among the causes of disability?

A. Cancer. B. Depression.

C. Back pain D. Heart disease.

2.What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A. Depression has been treated as a global public health priority.

B. PLOS Medicine is a website dealing with medical problems.

C. The study only analyzes depression all over the world.

D. Most patients with depression haven’t been treated.

3.Who is Alize Ferrari?

A. She is a doctor working in a hospital.

B. She is a professor at a university leading the study.

C. She is an official from the government.

D. She is a common teacher taking part in the study.

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 4?

A. There is a common standard of recognizing disability worldwide.

B. Most reasons for disability are similar.

C. Mental health has raised much attention among people.

D. How to find patients suffering from depression is not easy.

5.Why did the WHO start a global mental health action plan?

A. To make policy-makers of all countries pay attention to the problem of depression.

B. To help patients become healthier.

C. To raise the status of doctors in the world.

D. To help build more colleges that study mental health.

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Drowning is the second-most common cause of accidental death in children aging 1 to 14 (just behind motor vehicle accidents.) In a study by a national safety group, 90 percent of children who drowned did so while under the care of an adult or teenager. 1..

They are gasping(急促吸气)

2.. And for young children, who are in a horizontal face-down position, they are unable to keep the mouth above the water’s surface at all.

3.

They have to be able to breathe before they can speak. When people are drowning, their mouths sink below and reappears above the surface of the water. There isn't time for them to exhale, inhale, and call out.

They don’t seem in trouble

Sometimes the most important indicator that people are drowning is that they don’t look like they are drowning. They may just seem to be looking up at the sky, shore, pool deck, or dock. Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they cannot answer at all, they probably are drowning. 4..

They are trying and failing, to swim in a particular direction

A drowning victim can’t make any forward progress while in the water, according to the American Red Cross. “A young child may appear to be doing a ‘doggy paddle’ but has no forward progress,” according to the official lifeguarding guide. 5..

A．They can’t call for help

B．They can’t wave for help

C．All efforts are devoted strictly to getting air

D．Here are the steps for you to follow when someone is drowning

E．They could also take in water when drowning victims are gasping for air

F．You may have less than 30 seconds to get to them if they return a blank stare

G．Watch for these signs that someone is in trouble to avoid a tragedy in the making

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China has been pushing the reform of public hospitals ____ all its citizens.

A. in charge of

B. for the purpose of　　　

C. in honor of

D. for the benefit of

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

When speaking in public, it is important to _____ your message _____ and keep the attention of your audience.

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China’s one-child policy has been in place for decades and is causing ageing problem. So the news that China abandons one-child policy is _________ with cheers from many married couples.

A. behaved　 B. greeted　 C. hugged　 D. equipped

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Being shy, to speak in public caused me great pain when I was little. I remember my first time standing in front of people speaking. It was ______; my knees were knocking ; my palms were sweating and I thought I was going to _____. But I got through it at last and kind of enjoyed it. Later I regarded it as a good chance to practice my _____talent. Now, after many years, the act of speaking in front of people brings me great _____.

Part of life philosophy which allows us to _____ healthily and creates happiness is how we look at ____. They are in our life to create growth. Like the ______goes “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.” We get rid of our weakness then we become ______. Challenges are given to us so that we can grow ______. The question is how we look at them. Looking at the challenges is to see their ____ as positive. But many times when we are faced with a problem, we ______ it as negative. If we are______ in ourselves and see growth opportunities as creating ______ changes in our life, they can help us to become stronger, just as how I ______ the speech later.

We need to recognize challenges have their good functions that can _____ us. Once you learn to look upon challenges as opportunities to use a ______ perspective and test you, they’ll help you gain strength . They______ you good chances to grow healthily. Once you___38__ those challenges, they no longer stay in your life and they’ll disappear. Of course that doesn’t mean you make them disappear without _____,but the strength and ______ you gain are worth the effort.

1. A. uncomfortable　　 　 B. common　　　　 C. unusual　　　　 D. normal

2.A. pass out　　　　　 B. move on　　　　 C. run away　　　　　 D. turn away

3.A. story　　　　　　 B. work　　　　　 C. article　　　　　　 D. speech

4.A. joy　　　　　　　　 B. value　　　　　　 C. purpose　　　　　　 D. dream

5.A. talk　　　　　　　　 B. listen　　　　　　 C. play　　　　　　　　 D. grow

6.A. challenges　　　　 B. fates　　　　　　 C. success　　　　　　 D. failure

7.A. word　　　　　　　 B. sentence　　　　 C. saying　　　　　　 D. example

8.A. stronger　　　　　　 B. happier　　　　 C. younger　　　　　 D. lovelier

9.A. busier　　　　　　 　 B. better　　　　　　 C. freer　　　　　　 D. easier

10.A. reason　　 B. movement　　　 C. outcome　　　　　　 D. action

11. A. map　　　　　　 B. find　　　　　 C. picture　　　　 D. compare

12. A. disappointed　　　 B. honest　　　　　　 C. interested　　　　 D. confident

13.A. positive　　　　 　 B. unique　　　　　　 C. common　　　　　　　 D. slow

14.A. notice　　　　　　 B. suggest　　　　　 C. regard　　　　　　 D. confirm

15.A. force　　　　　　 B. push　　 C. benefit　　　　　　 D. attract

16.A. strange　　　　　　 B. new　　　　　　　 C. true　　　　　　　 D. good

17.A. throw　　　　　　 B. direct　　　　　　 C. accord　　　　　　 D. introduce

18.A. overtake　　　　　 B. overlie　 C. overlook　　　　 D. overcome

19. A. emotion　　　　　 B. time　　　　　　　 C. effort　　　　　　 D. result　　

20.A. wisdom　　　　 B. spirit　　 C. knowledge　　 D. virtue

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