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. Always 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 (拘謹(jǐn))... 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 of 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 similarity between making a public speech and writing is that 　　　　　　 .

A. you have to do a lot of preparation work before-hand

B. you should get over your nervous inhibitions

C. you should know grammar and vocabulary well

D. both of them have audience

3.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

4．The author of this passage probably is a 　　　　　 .

A. boss　　　　 B. politician　　　　 C. writer　　　　　 D. professor

Dr.Smith, together with his wife and daughters ,    ____     visit Beijing this summer.  

A. is going to   　　　　　　　 B. are going to   

C. was going to   　　　　　　　　 D . were going to

— The weather has been very hot and dry.

—Yes. If it had rained even a drop, things would be much better now! And my vegetables ________.

A. wouldn't die　　　　　　　　 B. didn't die

C. hadn't died　　　　　　　　　 D. wouldn't have died

He often thinks of _______he can do more for the development of science.

A. what　 B. that　 C. how　 D. when

—Hi, Brown. Are you going to have an outing?

　 — __________ .

　　 A. I can’t say.　 B. Yes, I will do. C. It’s fun to do so.　 D. That all depends.

Every possible means ________ to help the poor people in Africa.

A. have tried　

B. have been tried　

C. has tried　

D. has been tried

1.      He ____________ the telegram yesterday.

A. received B. accepted　　 C. expected　 D. reached

Professor Smith lives ____ the second storey. Now we are ____ the second floor.

　　A. in; in B. on; on C. in; on D. on; in

Some people can never go above 5,500 meters because their body is unable to ______ to those extreme conditions.

A. adopt B. adjust　　　 C. addict D. access