Question

Many people think that listening is a passive business. It is just the opposite. Listening well is an active exercise of our attention and hard work. It is because they do not realize this, or because they are not willing to do the work, that most people do not listen well.

Listening well also requires total concentration upon someone else. An essential part of listening well is the rule known as ‘bracketing’. Bracketing includes the temporary giving up or setting aside of your own prejudices and desires, to experience as far as possible someone else’s world from the inside, stepping into his or her shoes. Moreover, since listening well involves bracketing, it also involves a temporary acceptance of the other person. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will seem quite willing to open up the inner part of his or her mind to the listener. True communication is under way and the energy required for listening well is so great that it can be accomplished only by the will to extend oneself for mutual growth.

Most of the time we lack this energy. Even though we may feel in our business dealings or social relationships that we are listening well, what we are usually doing is listening selectively. Often we have a prepared list in mind and wonder, as we listen, how we can achieve certain desired results to get the conversation over as quickly as possible or redirected in ways more satisfactory to us. Many of us are far

more interested in talking than in listening, or we simply refuse to listen to what we don’t want to hear.

It wasn’t until toward the end of my doctor career that I have found the knowledge that one is being truly listened to is frequently therapeutic(有療效的) In about a quarter of the patients I saw, surprising improvement was shown during the first few months of psychotherapy(心理療法), before any of the roots of problems had been uncovered or explained. There are several reasons for this phenomenon, but chief among them, I believe, was the patient’s sense that he or she was being truly listened to, often for the first time in years, and for some, perhaps for the first time ever.

1.. The phrase “stepping into his or her shoes” in paragraph 2 probably means _______.

A. preparing a topic list first                             

B. focusing on one’s own mind

C. directing the talk to the desired results           

D. experiencing the speaker’s inside world

2.. What is mainly discussed in Paragraph 2 ?

A. How to listen well.                                      

B. What to listen to.

C. Benefits of listening.                                    

D. Problems in listening

3.According to the author , in communication people tend to ________.

A. listen actively                                              

B. listen purposefully

C. set aside their prejudices                              

D. open up their inner mind

4. According to the author , the patients improved mainly because _______.

A. they were taken good care of.                      

B. they knew they were truly listened to.

C. they had partners to talk to.                          

D. they knew the roots of problems.

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.A

3.B

4.B

【解析】

試題分析: 人們往往認(rèn)為傾聽(tīng)是一種被動(dòng)的行為，其實(shí)，恰恰相反，傾聽(tīng)是一種需要集中精力的事情。在本文中作者提到善于傾聽(tīng)會(huì)使人們之間的交往更加通暢，使談話雙方共同受益，共同成長(zhǎng)。而且作者為了證明其說(shuō)法，還介紹了自己利用傾聽(tīng)心理療法改變了他的病人的例子。

1.推理判斷題。根據(jù)and前面內(nèi)容to experience as far as possible someone else’s world from the inside,可以得知短語(yǔ)的意思是讓人們?nèi)ピO(shè)身處地地站到被人的角度是考慮問(wèn)題，選D。

2.主旨大意題。在第二段作者使用了分總的論證方法，首先提出中心句Listening well also requires total concentration upon someone else.接著從兩個(gè)方面①An essential part of listening well is the rule known as ‘bracketing’.②Moreover, since listening well involves bracketing, it also involves a temporary acceptance of the other person.來(lái)闡述如何善于傾聽(tīng)。由此判斷本段中心是如何做到更好的傾聽(tīng)，選A。

3.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第三段Even though we may feel in our business dealings or social relationships that we are listening well, ….（即使我們覺(jué)得在自己的生意和社交場(chǎng)合會(huì)傾聽(tīng)，但只是帶著目的有選擇性的聽(tīng)。）以及… prepared list in mind and wonder, achieve certain desired results to get the conversation over …...(…頭腦里想好聽(tīng)哪些事，聽(tīng)到自己想聽(tīng)的來(lái)盡可能快地結(jié)束話題或轉(zhuǎn)換話題，聽(tīng)自己滿意的。) 可以得知B選項(xiàng)正確。

4.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由最后一段There are several reasons for this phenomenon, but chief among them, I believe, was the patient’s sense that he or she was being truly listened to, ……可知病人被治好的原因主要是病人感覺(jué)到許多年來(lái)自個(gè)兒第一次被傾聽(tīng)，故B選項(xiàng)正確。

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