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【真题演练1】
Everyone communicates. Students and professors, parents and children, employers and employees,

friends, and even enemies –all communicate. We have been communicating with others from the first
weeks of life and will keep on doing so until we die.
Why study the activity of communication you’ve done during your entire life? There are three
reasons. First, studying interpersonal (人际的) communication will give you a new look at a familiar
topic. For instance, you will find that some people can go year – even lifetimes – without communicating

in a truly interpersonal manner. In this sense, exploring human communication is rather like studying
mathematics and physics – everyday objects take on new meaning.
A second reason for studying the subject has to do with the surprisingly huge amount of time we

spend communicating. A research study once measured the amount of time a simple of college students
spent on various activities. The researchers found that they spent an average of over 61 percent of their
waking time engaging in some form of communication.
The third reason is even more surprising. Frankly speaking, none of us communicate as effectively
as we would. Our friendships, jobs, and studies suffer because we fail to express ourselves well and

understand others accurately. If you pause now and make a mental list of communication problems you
have encountered (遇到), you’ll see that, no matter how successful your relationships, there is plenty of
room for improvement in your everyday communication.

1. Communication is an activity that_______.

A. most people are interested in
B. is more important than other activities
C. accompanies us throughout the life

D. people can do very well all the time

2. In Paragraph 2, “the activity of communication you’ve done during your entire life ” refers to _____.
A. study and research B. your life long career
C. your personal life experience D. interpersonal communication

3. What is surprising about the research result of communication?
A. College students spend a lot of time doing various activities.
B. Communication takes a huge amount of people’s waking time.
C. The amount of time people spend communicating cannot be measured.

D. 61 percent of the college students are engaged in some form of communication.

4. What is true about the research of communication?
A. Interpersonal communication is a subject everybody is interested in.

B. No one can probably communicate as effectively as they would.

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