Question

A conversation is not a business meeting at work or with your family. It is a personal or informal talk that takes place in the restaurant, in a car or walking on the street on your way to work.

It can make or break a relationship. It can make a career successful. It can make new friends. It can just brighten up another person’s life. It can change the world!

Here are some ways to make a conversation bring meaning to you and others.

Before starting a conversation, be clear about what you want to achieve. Knowing your purpose beforehand allows you to keep your conversation to the point and never get lost out of the way.

Start a topic that is very timely and appropriate. The starting point has to be depending on your relationship with the person you are talking to and the situation the person or both of you are going through. Starting the conversation with the right topic sets the tone that brings both sides at ease.

Come up with something that will make both of you interested. This allows the other person to be drawn more to speak up. Discovering common likes and dislikes opens up a bond (紐帶) between two people.

Put yourself in the shoes of the other person. Think how the other person feels at that moment. Feeling how the other person feels helps you to be in his position.

One of the most difficult tasks to do in a conversation is really listening. Do not prepare for what to say while the other person is talking. Do not just keep quiet because you want to give the other person a time to talk. The proof that you really listen is to repeat your understanding of what was said in your own words.

After you have spoken, give the other person a time to talk. There are some people who like to talk about themselves. If you are one of them, try to be less selfish. A conversation is not a monologue (獨角戲) or an interview.

Managing a conversation shows the kind of person you are. You do not have to wait for the other person to lead the discussion. You can do this. No matter who you are, if you lead a talk, you make a difference.

How to make meaningful conversations
Passage outline	Supporting details
1._______ is a conversation?	A conversation is a personal or informal talk taking place in the 2. __________, in a car or walking on the street.
What can a conversation do?	It can change the world by 3.__________ or breaking a relationship, making a career 4.___________, making new friends or brightening up another person’s life.
How can you make a conversation 5. ________?	Talk with a purpose. Knowing your purpose in 6.____________ keeps your conversation to the point.
Choose a good 7.___________. Starting the conversation with the right topic makes both of you feel easy.
Find common interests. Discovering common likes and dislikes opens up a bond between two people, allowing the other person to be drawn more to speak up.
Put yourself in the shoes of the other person. Feeling how the other person feels can 8. _________ you to be in his position.
9.__________ and repeat. Repeating your understanding of what was said in your own words proves that you are really listening.
Allow your listener to10._________. A conversation is not a monologue or an interview.

 

Answer 1

1.What

2.restaurant

3.making

4.successful

5.meaningful

6.advance

7.topic

8.help

9.Listen

10.talk/speak

【解析】

試題分析：題目主要考查學生從文中提取有效信息并對相關信息進行加工的能力。做題時需要注意是否需要大寫，是否需要轉換單詞的詞性。

1.It is a personal or informal talk that takes place in the restaurant, in a car or walking...”可知，第一段介紹了“conversation”的概念，即什么是“交談”，故填What。

2.that takes place in the restaurant, in a car or walking...”可知，交談是發(fā)生在飯店、車里、路上的私人或非正式的談話，故填restaurant。

3.It can make or break a relationship.”可知，交談能夠建立或打破一種關系，by后跟動名詞，故填making。

4.It can make a career successful. It can make new friends.”可知，交談能夠使事業(yè)獲得成功，故填successful。

5.Here are some ways to make a conversation bring meaning to you and others.”可知，作者接下來介紹了幾種讓交談變得有意義的方法，文中用的是名詞meaning，這里需要用其形容詞形式作賓補，故填meaningful。

6.Knowing your purpose beforehand allows you to”可知，事先想好交談的目的能夠使談話不跑題，beforehand預先，事先，in advanve提前，故填advance。

7.Start a topic that is very timely and appropriate. ...Starting the conversation with the right topic sets the tone that brings both sides at ease.”可知，本段講的是要選擇一個合適的話題，故填topic。

8.Feeling how the other person feels helps you to be in his position.”可知，了解對方的感受能幫助你設身處地為他人著想，can后面用動詞原形，故填help。

9.One of the most difficult tasks to do in a conversation is really listening.”可知，談話中最重要的一個任務就是傾聽，故填Listen。

10.give the other person a time to talk...A conversation is not a monologue (獨角戲) or an interview.”可知，在談話中，應該給對方表達他的想法的時間，不能一個人說個不停，故填talk/speak。

考點：考查提取有效信息和詞性轉換的能力