It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech．At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned．Fortunately, the moments are usually not obvious to the listeners. Why ? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser．When such moments occur, don’t worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened．
Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that don’t really matter. If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech – “ I have a dream”, you may notice that he stumble（结巴）his words twice during the speech．Most likely, however, you don’t remember．Why? Because you were fixing your attention on its message rather than on his way of speech-making. People care a lot about making mistakes in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of munication. They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating petition．But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performer. They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly．Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human．
As you work on your speech, don’t worry about being imperfect．Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely．
【小题1】The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will ．A．be smarter than youB．notice your mistakesC．do better than youD．know what you are talking about【小题2】You don’t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because ．A．your attention is on the content B．you don’t fully understand the speechC．you don’t know what the speaker plans to sayD．you find the way of speech-making more important【小题3】It can be inferred from the passage that ．A．giving a speech is like giving a performanceB．one to two mistakes in a speech may not be badC．the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is madeD．the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be【小题4】What would be the best title of the passage? A．How to Be a Perfect SpeakerB．How to Make a Perfect SpeechC．Don’t Expect a Perfect SpeechD．Don’t Expect Mistakes in a SpeechB
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(答案→)B
解析：
【小题1】B第一段讲到演讲者没必要害怕演讲的内容没有和预先计划好的一模一样，因为没有人会注意到你的不明显的错误，听众只会你当时说出来的内容，
【小题2】A从第五行They hear only what the speaker does say可以说明听众只是注意到演讲者说的内容而不是演讲事先准备说什么，所以不会觉察到明显的错误。
【小题3】B推断题。纵观全文及第二段最后一句Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human可得出答案。
【小题4】C.主旨大意题，这篇文章主要谈论在做演讲时，不要期待十全十美，偶尔一两个小错误对你的演讲不会有什么影响。另外也可以观察题支，发现BC两答案是互为矛盾的选项，再结合文章从BC 中排除一个干扰项。