Having good communication skills is important. They can help you with performances in class, during the job hunting, having arguments and in a variety of other situations.
1. Understanding the basics of communication skills.
Communication is the process (过程) of delivering signals or messages between a sender and a receiver through various methods.
2. Trying to attract the attention of your audience.
Whether you are speaking or listening, looking into the eyes of the person with whom you are having a conversation with can make the communication more successful. Eye-contact expresses interest and encourages your partner to be interested in you in return.
You can use gestures to help.
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People will think of you as nervous and unsure of yourself if you talk fast. However, be careful not to slow down to the point where people begin to finish the sentence just to help you finish.
People will judge your ability through your vocabulary.
Communication increases happiness and love and makes you more popular. When you improve how you talk and present yourself, you will build your confidence, self-esteem (自尊) and social life.
| A．Using your words. |
| B．These include gestures with hands and face. |
| C．Learning to get in the mood for conversation. |
| D．If you aren’t sure of how to say a word, don’t use it. |
| E．It is also the skill we use to build and keep relationships. |
| F．If you do that, you’ll make conversations far more interesting. |
| G．Here are some tricks you can use to improve your communication skills. |
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【推荐1】I don’t think I need to tell you that reading is good for you. Unfortunately, most people don’t read. Sometimes, people do want to read, but can never seem to find the time.
Have a goal.
Some people set goals for themselves like reading one book a week. You can start by reading a book a mouth, or a book every two months even. It’s up to you, whatever floats your boat.
Apply a little pressure.
You can have a reading partner. Set something up between both of you like what book you’re going to read and when to see your promise through.
If you’re determined and willing, use every possible moment to bury yourself in the art of the written word. On the bus. On the subway. On your lunch break. Or at the gym. You won’t regret it, I promise!
Take action right away.
| A．Goals can always keep you focused to get the job done. |
| B．You can also borrow books from your local library. |
| C．You may find it easy to take action immediately. |
| D．Sometimes the thing preventing us from reading is our mind. |
| E．Start with great determination. |
| F．Read whenever and wherever you can. |
| G．If you are one of them, well, my friends, this post is for you. |
【推荐2】Coming to study in the UK is your opportunity to gain the skills, outlook and confidence you need to fulfil your potential. Applying to study in the UK is a straightforward process.
1. Decide on a university or college and course.
To ensure you choose the course that is right for you and for what you want to achieve it is best to read as much as you can about the range of courses, colleges and universities available and compare them. It is also important to check the course entry requirements.
2.Register and apply.
Applying for an undergraduate course in the UK is simple; there is one place where you can register and apply to all of the UK universities and colleges – you register and apply through UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service).
3.
Your university or college will contact you (usually via email) to tell you whether or not you have received an offer to study. If you applied via UCAS it's easy to track the status of your application at any time.
If you are accepted with a conditional offer, the place is yours as long as you meet a few extra requirements. This could be achieving certain exam grades or English language test scores.
For some courses you may be asked to come for an interview before you receive your offer, either on the phone or sometimes in person.
| A．Apply for a visa. |
| B．Accept your offer. |
| C．We will guide you through it step by step. |
| D．Once you have your offer and your visa, it's time to get packing! |
| E．You can do this using the course profiles on the institutions' websites. |
| F．If you are accepted with an unconditional offer, then congratulations! |
| G．Check the course information before you apply to find out whether this is required. |
【推荐3】Realizing your dreams is not a matter of possibility; it’s a matter of motivating yourself to focus on the right things. You know you should be doing something, but sometimes you just don’t feel like doing anything.
This is by far the most important tip in this article. Sit down and get a move on! Reading more about motivation won’t help. Reviewing your to-do lists won’t help.
Think about how far you have come. You have made so much progress, you just don’t realize it. Open your eyes and give yourself credit for all that you have done. Think about it. Write down your past successes..
| A．Do you feel the push-back of laziness? |
| B．Only doing helps get everything going. |
| C．Be aware of your self-talk and stay confident. |
| D．This discouraging situation can last a long time if you don’t take action. |
| E．Daily motivation tricks help you to realize your dreams. |
| F．Consider using a diary to keep track of them. |
| G．And most people that gave up didn’t realize how close they were to success. |
【推荐1】Everyone needs to be safe,loved and to have a sense of belonging.These are inborn and natural basic needs.In an effort to have these needs satisfied,many of us tend to please others.And it works for a while.We find that we experience less conflict with others,but the conflict within ourselves grows.Saying "no" produces feeling of guilt and saying "yes" brings anger.
My father was in the military,so we moved frequently.Being shy,I didn't make friends.What's more,I grew up in a household where grades,image and how others saw our family were very important.In our household a "C" was unacceptable,a "B" should have been an "A" and an "A" meant the lesson was too easy.I was too skinny,my sister was too fat and my brother's lips and ears were too big for his tiny head.
To stop pleasing others is easier said than done.It's a long process,one in which I am consistently working to perfect.The turning point for me came shortly after I got married.The very first thing we did to end the cycle of catering to others was develop our own identity as individuals and then as a couple.And then we developed a strong set of core（核心）values and a vision for our future.The third and one of the most valuable things we did during this process was develop our own personal influence on others and we valued deeply the opinions of the wiser and more successful people around us.
Besides,we should understand that sometimes helping people actually hurts them.Struggle is necessary to success.Struggle strengthens character,making people determined.So sometimes allowing people to struggle is the best thing you can do for them.
1. How are we likely to feel when pleasing others?| A．Satisfied | B．Angry. |
| C．Happy | D．Guilty |
| A．He grew up doing a lot of housework. |
| B．It was hard for him to adjust to the moving life. |
| C．He realized the value of opinions from others. |
| D．His parents had great expectations of the children. |
| A．What steps the author took to go on pleasing others. |
| B．How the author stepped out of the cycle of pleasing others. |
| C．Why the author further developed his values and character. |
| D．When the author turned to others for their valuable opinions. |
| A．Helping others without delay. |
| B．Refusing to help others. |
| C．Thinking twice before offering help. |
| D．Leaving someone alone in trouble. |
It seemed that Katie had been running up sizable charges in the lunchroom. Her parents explained that Katie brought a great homemade lunch each day, and there was no reason for her to buy school lunch. They assumed a sit-down with Katie would solve the problem, but failed. So they asked me to help them get to the bottom of this situation.
So the next day, I asked Katie to my office. "Why are you charging lunches, Katie? What happened to your homemade lunch?" I asked. "I lose it," she responded. I leaned back in my chair and said, "I don't believe you, Katie. " She didn't care. "Is someone stealing your lunch, Katie?" I took a new track. "No. I just lose it," she said. Well, there was nothing else I could do.
The problem was still unsolved the next week when I noticed a boy who was new to the school sitting alone at a lunch table. He always looked sad. I thought I would go and sit with him for a while. As I walked towards him, I noticed the lunch bag on the table. The name on the bag said "Katie".
Now I understood and I talked to Katie. It seemed that the new boy never brought a lunch, and he wouldn't go to the lunch line for a free lunch. He had told Katie his secret and asked her not to tell anyone that his parents wanted him to get a free lunch at school. Katie asked me not to tell her parents, but I drove to her house that evening after I was sure that she was in bed. I had never seen parents so proud of their child. Katie didn't care that her parents and teacher were disappointed in her. But she cared about a little boy who was hungry and scared.
Katie still buys lunch every day at school. And every day, as she heads out of the door, her mom hands her a delicious homemade lunch.
1. What did the author think of Katie?
| A．She performed well at school. |
| B．She was a girl filled with love. |
| C．She often made trouble at school. |
| D．She used to be a discipline problem. |
| A．She lost her homemade lunch. |
| B．She had her homemade lunch stolen. |
| C．She didn't like the taste of her homemade lunch. |
| D．She gave her homemade lunch to a hungry boy. |
| A．They were very angry. | B．They were proud of Katie. |
| C．They were disappointed. | D．They were rather upset. |
| A．Katie was informed that her parents had known her secret. |
| B．Katie told the author the truth of her lunch during their first talk. |
| C．Katie's secret of lunch was discovered by the author by accident. |
| D．Katie stopped buying lunch at school after her secret was discovered. |
【推荐3】Good leaders surround themselves with team members who are smarter than they are, experts say. They don’t let their ego(自尊) get in the way of choosing the best people for the job. And the same might be true of happy people, too. According to a new study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, happy people are less influenced by social comparison when deciding who to spend time with. Like good leaders, they aren’t deterred from being around people who might seem smarter than them, and they reap the benefits of good company.
In a series of studies, researchers invited Korean undergraduates to imagine they got a mediocre(中等的) score on a test. Next, they envisioned receiving a text message from a friend, who either performed better on the test and had a happy disposition（性格）, or performed worse and was generally unhappy. Participants then reported whether they wanted to hang out with that friend, and what their mood would be after spending time with them. The happy participants—those who scored highest on their general levels of happiness—were more interested in spending time with the happy yet “superior” friend, and expected to be more chipper afterward. The unhappy participants showed no preference for either friend.
It seems like happy people aren’t troubled by seeming to do worse than friends, but could something else be going on? The researchers conducted another study to tease out（深入挖掘出） the role of self-esteem, which could be the true influencer: Perhaps people high in self-esteem—who tend to be happy—don’t feel intimidated（受到威胁的） by their superiors, and that confidence is what actually protects us from unfavorable social comparison. Yet again, even after controlling for self-esteem, the results held: Happy people were more willing to socialize with happy-but-smarter friends, while unhappy people showed no preference. The participants this time were American, extending the findings to a second culture.
Underlying these studies is the notion（观念） that spending time with the happy friend is the better decision—a notion that might be difficult to hear if we ourselves are the unhappy friend, but one that research nonetheless supports. Happy people, says the research, are more helpful, more generous, and more cooperative. They judge their friends more favorably and tend to be more sociable and attentive. For this reason, the researchers suggest that choosing to spend time around happy and high-performing companions is one of the ways that happy people stay happy. Of course, there’s another way of seeing the results: We can cultivate awareness of our natural preference for happy people, and deliberately make an effort to hang out with them, which could help us over the long fun.
1. The underlined word “deterred” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to “_________“.| A．warned |
| B．advocated |
| C．confirmed |
| D．prevented |
| A．A student who imagined getting a high score and was happy. |
| B．A student who imagined getting a low score and was happy. |
| C．A student who imagined getting a high score and was happy. |
| D．A student who imagined getting an average score and was happy. |
| A．happy participants like to feel superior |
| B．people with the same feelings like to hang out together |
| C．unhappy people prefer neither happy nor unhappy friends |
| D．it’s self-esteem that makes happy people choose happy companions |
