One Sunday morning in August I went to a local music festival. I left it early because I had an appointment 56 (late) that day. My friends walked me to the bus stop and waited with me until the bus arrived. I got on the bus and 57 (find) a seat near the back, and then I noticed a man sitting at the front. He 58 (pretend) that a tiger toy was real and giving it a voice. He must be mentally disabled.
Behind him 59 (be) other people to 60 he was trying to talk, but after some minutes they walked away and sat near me, 61 (look) annoyed.
I didn’t want to be laughed at for talking to him but I didn’t like leaving him 62 his own either. After a while I 63 (rise) from my seat and walked to the front of the bus. I sat next to the man and introduced me. We had 64 amazing conversation. He got off the bus before me and I felt very happy the rest of the way home.
I’m glad I made a choice. It made 65 of us feel good.
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Good communication is vital in modern society. We know that much of the communication is unspoken. Consciously or unconsciously, we show our true feelings with our eyes, faces, bodies and attitudes. Your good qualities can make good communication. The personal qualities include: physical appearance, energy, rate of speech, pitch and tone of voice, gestures, expressiveness of eyes, and the ability to hold the interest of others.
What should we do so that our communication will be effective? Here are my suggestions.
Firstly, you should be yourself. The trick is to be consistently you, at your best. The most effective people never change character from one situation to another. They’re the same whether they’re having a conversation with their close friends, addressing their garden club or being interviewed for a job. They communicate with their whole being.
Secondly, whether you’re talking to one person or one hundred, always remember to look at them. Don’t break eye contact while talking. As you enter a room, move your eyes comfortably, then look directly at those in the room and smile. This shows clearly that you are at ease. Smiling is important. The best type of smile and eye contact is gentle and comfortable, not forced.
You should also absorb other people before showing yourself. You can’t learn anything when you talk. When you attend a meeting, a party or an interview, don’t immediately start throwing your opinions. Stop for a second. Absorb what’s going on. What’s the mood of the others—are they down, up, happy, expectant? Are they eager to learn from you, or do they show resistance? If you can sense what’s happening with others, you will be better able to reach them. So, listen before you talk.
The fourth suggestion is that you focus your energy. How do you get your energy up? Before the meeting, collect your thoughts about the goal of the meeting—yours and the other’s. Once you go through the doorway, no longer think about yourself. Focus on the person you are meeting to find out what he is interested in. Properly collected energy comes across when we sincerely believe something. When you speak with energy, you are involved with your audience and your message. You create an air of certainty. The audience may disagree with you, but they can’t question your belief.
Lastly, I would like to remind you that you should lighten up. Take a good hard look at your self. Do you say “I” too often? Are you only concentrated on your own problems? Do you complain frequently? If you answered yes to even one of these questions, you need to be more relaxed.
Title: How to communicate (76)___________ | ||
Suggestions | Dos | Don’ts |
Be yourself | Always be the same and communicate with your whole being. | Change character in (77)___________ situations. |
Use your eyes and smile | · Make direct eye contact. ·Present a gentle and comfortable (78) ________. | ·Break eye contact. ·(79)_______ yourself to smile. |
Listen before (80) __________ | Stop for a short time to know the others’ mood and what is happening with them. | Begin your talk immediately. |
Focus your (81) __________ | ·Remain calm and (82)_______ clearly and carefully before the meeting. ·Focus on the person you’re meeting. | Think about yourself. |
Lighten up | Try to be (83)___________. | ·Say “I” too often. ·Concentrate on your own problems. ·Make too many (84)__________. |
(85)_________ | Good qualities can make good communication. |
Should doctors ever lie to benefit their patients to speed recovery or to cover the coming of death? In medicine as in law, government, and other lines of work, the requirements of honesty often seem dwarfed by greater needs; the need to protect patients from brutal news, to uphold a promise of secrecy or to advance the public interest.
What should doctors say, for example, to a 46-year-old man coming in for a routine physical checkup just before going on vacation with his family who, though he feels in perfect health, is found to have a form of cancer that will cause him to die within six months? Is it best to tell him the truth? If he asks, should doctors reject that he is ill, or minimize the gravity of the illness? Should they at least hide the truth until after the family vacation?
Doctors face such choices often. At times, they see important reasons to lie for the patients’ own sake; in their eyes, such lies differ sharply from self-serving ones.
Studies show that most doctors sincerely believe that the seriously ill patients do not want to know the truth about their condition, and that informing them of risks destroys their hope, so that they may recover more slowly, or deteriorate faster, perhaps even commit suicide.
But other studies show that, contrary to the belief of many physicians, a great majority of patients do want to be told the truth, even about serious illness, and feel cheated when they learn that they have been misled. We are also learning that truthful information, humanely conveyed, helps patients cope with illness; help them tolerate pain better with less medicine, and even recover faster after surgery.
There is an urgent need to debate this issue openly. Not only in medicine, but in other professions as well, practitioners may find themselves repeatedly in difficulty where serious consequences seem avoidable only through deception. Yet the public has every reason to know the professional deception, for such practices are peculiarly likely to become deeply rooted, to spread, and to trust. Neither in medicine, nor in law, government, or the social sciences can there be comfort in the old saying, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you.”
Title: 71 Or Not
Different 72 | ·Most doctors are in 73 of lying for the patients’ own sake. |
·A great majority of patients 74 on being told the truth. | |
Reasons for 75 lying to patients | ·Informing patients of the truth about their condition destroys their hope, 76 to recovering more slowly, or deteriorating faster, perhaps even 77 themselves. |
Reasons 78 lying to patients | ·The truthful information helps patients to 79 their illness, help them tolerate pain better with less medicine, and even recover faster after surgery. ·Most patients feel 80 when they learn that they have been misled. |