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Quiz 1 Meeting public speaking
1、【单选题】This course believes public speaking is for everyone. By this we mean ____.
A、Public speaking is done for the profit of everyone.
B、Speakers must consider the needs of everyone when preparing a speech.
C、Public speaking is nature, not nurture.
D、We all engage in verbal communications that can be approached "as public speaking."
2、【单选题】Which of the following is the most communication-style?
A、Presidential candidates doing a TV debate.
B、Giving a speech at TED.
C、Taking a job interview.
D、Discussing a research topic with teammates.
3、【单选题】Which of the following TED talks is more likely to be persuasive?
A、“Why doesn’t the leaning tower of Pisa fall over?”
B、“The secret language of the trees”
C、“The Amazon belongs to humanity—let’s protect it together”
D、"Ten ways to have a better conversation”
4、【单选题】Please take a quick look at the beginning 1 minute of a video clip featuring Chinese scientist Tu Yoyo’s (屠呦呦）Nobel lecture “Discovery of Artemisinin - A gift from traditional Chinese medicine to the world. The video clip is also available under 1.3.3. The male voice at the very beginning of the video clip was from Professor Jan Andersson, Adjunct Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. His was a speech of _____.<img src="http://edu-image.nosdn.127.net/371CB4277F2B30FD7EB13CCB4E4A48C0.png?imageView height: 322px;" />
A、Introduction
B、Presentation
C、Acceptance
D、Anniversary celebration
5、【单选题】By calling public speaking skills a man's best suit and a woman's most handy handbag, we mean _____.
A、Public speaking skills can bring you material benefits.
B、Public speaking can spice up your life, making it more fun.
C、Public speaking increases your social attractiveness, especially on important occasions.
D、When it comes to public speaking, men and women need different skill sets!
6、【单选题】Which of the following sentences would be typically found in a speech of presentation?
A、Welcome to this special event in which we greet (Title and name) and welcome him/her to (Place).
B、I'd like you to please extend a warmest welcome to (Title and name).
C、And the (Name of prize) goes to (Name of prize winner).
D、Thank you all so much for sharing this incredible journey with me.
7、【单选题】Imagine a guest speaker is to give a lecture and you're the one to make the speech of introduction. Which of the following goes first?
A、Welcoming the audience
B、Welcoming guest speaker
C、Introducing yourself
D、Introducing guest speaker
8、【判断题】Volunteering means working without pay. It doesn't involve public speaking.
A、正确
B、错误
9、【判断题】In TED talk Your body language may shape who you are, by saying I don't have ego involved in this, Amy Cuddy tries to persuade us that we need to let ourselves go when doing power posing.
A、正确
B、错误
10、【判断题】This course will be fun! :)
A、正确
B、错误
Quiz 2 No fear public speaking
1、【单选题】The “I” in the NIPP+ anti-stage fright recipe stands for ___:
A、incredible
B、invisible
C、invigorating
D、innovative
2、【单选题】The 5P principle tells us to ____:
A、just relax
B、research well
C、prepare fully
D、stay hungry, stay foolish
3、【单选题】The ultimate cure for stage fright, according to this week's lectures, is _____.
A、experience
B、deep breathing
C、active gestures
D、focusing on what you say
4、【单选题】Which of the following statements is false regarding the fight-or-flight response in TED talk The science of stage fright?
A、It is a threat reaction.
B、It's a self-protective process.
C、It's easy to overcome.
D、It can be seen in a number of animals, humans included.
5、【单选题】What has made public speaking particularly fearsome for Megan Washington?
A、Accent
B、Stutter
C、Time shortage
D、Lack of creativity
6、【单选题】It just means I now have a better understanding of what's _____ stake, and how giving up is not an option. (Saflem: Why I keep speaking up even when people mock my accent)
A、at
B、on
C、for
D、by
7、【单选题】Can our NIPP+ solution help you cope fear in other areas?
A、YES!!
B、Please choose A :))
C、Please choose A :))
D、Please choose A :))
8、【多选题】Which of the following constitutes the three elements for successful speechmaking?
A、Content
B、Delivery
C、Language
D、Accent
9、【判断题】In a modern society, people are no longer afraid of public speaking. If I'm afraid of it, I'm a weirdo and should be ashamed of myself.
A、正确
B、错误
Assignment 1 Delivering statistics
Quiz 3 Speech content
1、【单选题】Imagine you're discussing the misuse of powerful prescription drugs (处方药）. This is what you say: Think of Heath Ledger, and Michael Jackson. Both died from overuse of prescription drugs. What supporting method are you using?
A、Brief examples
B、Extended examples
C、Hypothetical examples
D、Multiple statistics
2、【单选题】“In your body language may shape who you are, Amy Cuddy shared with her audience her personal story--how she lost and was later able to rebuild her confidence. What supporting method was that?
A、Brief examples
B、Extended examples
C、Hypothetical examples
D、Multiple statistics
3、【单选题】In “How to spot a liar,” Pamela Meyer explained how we could spot a liar by examining his/her verbal performance and bodily performance. For this part, then, she was using ____:
A、Chronological organization
B、Spatial organization
C、Problem-solution organization
D、Topical organization
4、【单选题】Let's again think about the very famous Monroe's Motivated Sequence pattern under 3.2 Go tell it in the forum. The core part--Need, Satisfaction--actually uses one of the four most common patterns we learned this week. Which one is it?
A、Chronological
B、Spatial
C、Problem-solution
D、Topical
5、【单选题】When we think about supporting materials and organizational methods, we're thinking about the ____ of the speech.
A、Content
B、Delivery
C、Language
D、Style
6、【多选题】As discussed under 3.1 Go tell it in the forum, we do not just find some statistics and write them into our speech. We need also to consider how exactly to use statistics, so that they support, not hinder, understanding. For this purpose, we can:
A、Round off complicated statistics(把数字凑整）， so that your audience have a clearer sense of how much it is.
B、Use statistics from reliable sources.
C、Use visual aids （视觉辅助工具）or body language to help audience understand those abstract numbers.
D、Explain the statistics, especially by making the statistics mean something for the audience.
7、【判断题】On one level of the speech we should use only one organization method.
A、正确
B、错误
8、【判断题】Matter? Manner? For a speaker, matter, or the content, of the speech doesn't really matter. The key to success is whether you look confident or not.
A、正确
B、错误
9、【判断题】Let's finish Quiz 3 with a language question~ Here is a sentence from How to spot a liar: Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. There are three secret's in this sentence, and their parts of speech (词性）are respectively noun, adjective, adjective.
A、正确
B、错误
Quiz 4 Informative Speeches
1、【单选题】The first thing to do when preparing a speech is to _____.
A、Think of an interesting topic
B、Choose an organization pattern
C、Decide what to wear
D、Find out who is the audience
2、【单选题】Understanding your audience in terms of age, gender, education, economic standing, etc. is to analyze their _____ traits.
A、Democratic
B、Demographic
C、Geographic
D、Geopolitical
3、【单选题】In Bush' speech Choices and Change, the Wellesley spirit is identified as _____.
A、Pursuing career success
B、Fighting gender inequality
C、Embracing diversity
D、Accepting others conditinally
4、【单选题】Bush stated that Diversity, like anything worth having, requires effort. This means roughly the same as _____.
A、Diversity is the spice of life.
B、The path of true love never did run smooth.
C、Most things worth having never come easy. We need to earn diversity.
D、To lead an effortless life, one must first value diversity.
5、【多选题】To better understand your audience, you need also to consider _____.
A、Their disposition towards the speech topic
B、Their disposition towards the speaker
C、Their disposition towards the occasion
D、Size of audience and more
6、【判断题】Audience analysis is only half the battle. It's only meaningful when followed with thoughtful adaptations.
A、正确
B、错误
7、【判断题】Adaptations can be made on many fronts, like what topic is more appropriate, what visual aids are more effective, what language to use, etc.
A、正确
B、错误
8、【判断题】Technical terms can damage clarity, so we speakers should simply leave out all the technical terms in our drafts.
A、正确
B、错误
9、【判断题】By Deliver them, do not just say them, we mean speakers should slow down at the technical terms, and say them clearly. so that the audience are not confused by these rough-looking words.
A、正确
B、错误
Quiz 5 Delivery
1、【单选题】According to the classification in Session 5.1, waving to say goodbye would be a _____ gesture.
A、give
B、chop
C、show
D、/
2、【单选题】The “b+d” show gesture from Session 5.1 means ______.
A、Be diligent
B、Bold and daring
C、Belt and road
D、Bob Dylan
3、【单选题】Connecting our APS past (Week 5 on delivery) and our APS future (Week 6 on content): Speakers need to trust themselves, that is, to have confidence. They also need to make themselves trustworthy in the eyes of the audience, that is, to have credibility. Of the four speakers under Public Health Special, Bill Gates is the only one who's not a medical specialist. Which of the following statements in his speech, then, can be seen as a special effort to remove doubts on his credibility?
A、If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missles, but microbes.
B、Let's look at Ebola. I'm sure all of you read about it in the newspaper, lots of challenges. I followed it carefully through the case analysis tools we use to track polio eradication.
C、Now, in the movies it's quite different. There's a group of handsome epidemiologists ready to go, they move in, they save the day, but that's just pure Hollywood.
D、The failure to prepare could allow the next epidemic to be dramatically more devastating than Ebola.
4、【多选题】Which of the following statements about eye contact makes sense?
A、Speakers should actively use eye contact.
B、Speakers should avoid breaking eye contact in the middle of a thought unit.
C、Speaekers should avoid neglecting audience sitting to their far left or far right.
D、If some audience members show a strong interest in your topic, you should look at these special members most of the time.
5、【多选题】Which of the following elements are considered when we speak of delivery in the public speaking setting?
A、Voice management
B、Eye contact
C、gesturing, posture and movement
D、personal appearance and visual aids management
6、【判断题】It's advisble for the speaker to hold something in his/her hand to reduce nervousness even when the object is irrelevant to the speech.
A、正确
B、错误
7、【判断题】The more gestures, the better.
A、正确
B、错误
8、【判断题】Make an educated guess: By working on delivery, we can look more confident. Eventually this will help us become truly confident in ourselves -- by looking confident we can be confident.
A、正确
B、错误
6.2.3 Quick question: On grammar (re Jon Stewart's speech)
1、【单选题】A grammar question for you [Yeah!]. Think back on the Jon Stewart speech from the previous session (6.1). There are quite some they's and their's in the following part of the speech. Whom do you think the red they and the red their refer to?<img src="http://edu-image.nosdn.127.net/C048654D253AFD1F0B5E6BA91338817A.png?imageView
A、9/11 first responders
B、Congressmen who're absent
C、Congressmen who're present
D、/
6.3.3 Quick question: On reasoning (re Jon Stewart's speech)
1、【单选题】We're staying on with Jon Stewart. This is how we believe his argument is played out:1. People should correct injustice.2. People not doing their job is injustice.3. Congressmen didn't do their job.4. Congressmen should now do their job. What kind of reasoning is this?
A、Reasoning from specific instances.
B、Reasoning from principle.
C、Causal reasoning
D、Analogical reasoning
Quiz 6 Persuasive speeches
1、【单选题】Who developed the ethos-logos-pathos recipe for persuasion?
A、Plato (柏拉图）
B、Aristotle（亚里士多德）
C、Socrates（苏格拉底）
D、Sherlock Holms（福尔摩斯）
2、【单选题】Let's apply what we've learned. When Bill Gates in The next outbreak? We're not ready shared that he had closely followed up on medical research, he was building _____.
A、Ethos
B、Logos
C、Pathos
D、/
3、【单选题】Let's connect the dots, the dot of organization and the dot of reasoning. Arguing first that we're not ready for the next outbreak, and then offering three ways for us to get prepared, Bill Gates uses ___ organization and reasons ____.
A、topical ... from specific instances
B、topical ... from principle
C、problem-solution ... causally
D、problem-solution ... analogically
4、【单选题】Which of the following practices is the most logos-friendly?
A、Faking up some statistics so that my argument looks stronger -- no one will really check right?
B、Using a quotation without citing the source to save time for my speech -- time is precious, man!
C、Skipping an over-used example for a fresh one -- I spent time to find it but it's worth the time!
D、Examples are for children -- I'll just tell my audience something is right and, if they are decent human beings, they should just do it.
5、【单选题】Someone says Debating and public speaking are worlds apart. There's nothing in common. Your response, hopefully, is ___.
A、"Most people think this way. So it must be correct."
B、"Few people think this way. So it must be correct."
C、“I was told not so. So it must be incorrect."
D、"I personally tend to disagree. But, as I've learned this week, I should think critically. So please provide evidence and reasoning before we come to a final-for-now conclusion."
6、【多选题】We as speakers can build ethos via several ways, including:
A、Mentioning our professional background
B、Mentioning our personal experience or research
C、Building common ground with our audience
D、Developing strong delivery
7、【判断题】Using inclusive pronouns like we, us, and our can help create common ground between the speaker and the audience.
A、正确
B、错误
8、【判断题】Jon Stewart in his speech relied completely on pathos to win over the congressmen's hearts (and votes) for the 9/11 first responders.
A、正确
B、错误
9、【判断题】To successfully persuade, we must avoid airing our opponents' views in our speeches. Ours should be the only voice that the audience hears.
A、正确
B、错误
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