英语口语直通车智慧树答案

第一章 单元测试

1、单选题：Chinese people, especially married adult men don’t like to be given ______________hats.

A:purple

B:read

C:yellow

D:green

正确答案:【green】

2、单选题：English is the international language, especially when it comes to _________________.

A:traveling

B:shopping

C:fishing

D:eating

正确答案:【traveling】

3、单选题：There is no doubt that fewer than ______________ Chinese are proficient English speakers.

A:40 million

B:50 million

C:20 million

D:30 million

正确答案:【20 million】

4、单选题：In the video, Michael says, many Chinese do know more than one language. They might know ___________.

A:a local dialect

B:Cantonese

C:Mandarin

D:all of the above

正确答案:【all of the above】

5、单选题：After watching each unit of Learning Tips for Spoken English, you’re given some questions to answer, the purpose is not to ___________.

A:make you know more teachers

B:stimulate your critical thinking

C:test your comprehension on the one hand

D:develop your problem-solving skills on the other

正确答案:【make you know more teachers】

6、单选题：Needless to say, speaking English in a (n) ___________ way is more useful and practical than the formal one.

A:formal

B:funny

C:informal

D:serious

正确答案:【informal】

7、单选题：Put briefly, our college students can learn _____________from this course.

A:how to film a video

B:English slang words, idiomatic expressions, verbal phrases

C:the strategies about how to drive a car when studying in the university

D:the common forms of American dialects

正确答案:【English slang words, idiomatic expressions, verbal phrases】

8、单选题：You’ll also learn the methods of ______ in order to gain confidence through public speaking.

A:how to sing a song

B:how to conduct prepared and impromptu speeches

C:how to write a poem in English

D:how to read newspapers in English

正确答案:【how to conduct prepared and impromptu speeches】

9、单选题：The big challenges that you are bound to encounter can be divided into three categories, they are __________________.

A:all of the above

B:cultural barriers

C:the psychological barriers

D:the linguistic barriers

正确答案:【all of the above】

10、单选题：Before Edward came to China, he learned as much Chinese as he could, because he had several reasons except for one fact, he was not to learn how _____________

A:to know the numbers

B:to be able to tell a Taxi driver where to go

C:to read Chinese words

D:to be able to order food

正确答案:【to read Chinese words】

11、单选题：Nowadays, less than 5% of Chinese English learners possess barrier-free communication skills in English.

A:F

B:T

正确答案:【T】

12、单选题：When our students learn English in a college or university, their English level is normally not judged by their examination results.

A:T

B:F

正确答案:【F】

13、单选题：Thai people don’t like you to touch their kids’ heads, because they fully believe that there is a link between the sky and their kids’ heads.

A:F

B:T

正确答案:【T】

14、单选题：When you try to become fluent in English, you are destined not to encounter any difficulties even if English is not our mother tongue.

A:T

B:F

正确答案:【F】

15、单选题：It’s George Washington’s saying: “Wars are fought with weapons, but they are won by men.”

A:F

B:T

正确答案:【F】

16、单选题：According to the course, although psychological barriers are________, they can be just as impenetrable as more obvious barriers, such as language differences.

A:invisible

B:intentionally

C:equipped

D:stumble

正确答案:【invisible】

17、单选题：Truly speaking, even if English learners have memorized thousands of words and dozens of grammar rules, they can still ________upon a mysterious invisible block.

A:equipped

B:intentionally

C:stumble

D:invisible

正确答案:【stumble】

18、单选题：It is often said that “The past often ________ into perceptions about the future.”

A:invisible

B:equipped

C:intentionally

D:creeps

正确答案:【creeps】

19、单选题：In those days, they were fully prepared for the college entrance examination instead of being ________with practical skills, like communicating effectively in English.

A:intentionally

B:creeps

C:equipped

D:stumble

正确答案:【equipped】

20、单选题：When they were high school students, they were requested to memorize new words, study English grammar, read passages and write essays day by day for not being armed with practical skills.

A:T

B:F

正确答案:【T】

21、单选题：No one can deny that once our college students are requested to do their unfamiliar thing: speaking more in English, especially with native English speakers, they feel shy and uncomfortable.

A:F

B:T

正确答案:【T】

22、单选题：In Dr. Pan’s opinion, lack of a good studying habit and an effective learning method has also caused our students’ unhappiness._

A:F

B:T

正确答案:【F】

23、单选题：To be sure, if you’re able to realize that you have this fear of speaking English, you’re already halfway through the difficulty.

A:F

B:T

正确答案:【T】

24、单选题：Today, this course is going to discuss how to __________ break through students’ psychological barriers in English speaking.

A:options

B:internal

C:require

D:effectively

正确答案:【effectively】

25、单选题：One of the most urgent things that educators are supposed to do is to stimulate students’ ____________ incentive, along with the external incentive that they can implement in their own educational settings.

A:maintain

B:effectively

C:options

D:internal

正确答案:【internal】

26、单选题：In short, breaking through the psychological barriers truly _______our certain efforts.

A:effectively

B:requires

C:options

D:maintain

正确答案:【requires】

27、单选题：Generally put, keep your _______opened, do well now, even though you really don’t know why, go for it, and the doors will open.

A:requires

B:effectively

C:options

D:maintain

正确答案:【options】

28、单选题：It’s unnecessary for the teachers to understanding why the college students are learning a foreign language.

A:F

B:T

正确答案:【F】

29、单选题：Teachers also need to reflect what a kind of teaching style should they implement in classroom and what additional elements should they exert to the current teaching method.

A:T

B:F

正确答案:【T】

30、单选题：The only reason why college students can’t speak English fluently is that they are truly short of real English environment since Chinese is our mother tongue, and English is our foreign tongue.

A:T

B:F

正确答案:【F】

31、单选题：If students only want to pass their tests and don’t care about their future language learning, then they might not speak English fluently.

A:F

B:T

正确答案:【T】

32、单选题：The second step to reduce students’ psychological barriers, according to the course, is to have a better understanding of students’ different needs.

A:F

B:T

正确答案:【T】

33、单选题：It is no exaggeration to say that, to any non-native English speakers, speaking any foreign language can be easily ___________.

A:intimidating

B:theory

C:fake

D:translate

正确答案:【intimidating】

34、单选题：There’s a widespread saying in English, it’s called “_______it till you make it”

A:fake

B:intimidating

C:theory

D:translate

正确答案:【fake】

35、单选题：Because you are actually doing it, you are sooner or later turning ______into reality.

A:translate

B:fake

C:theory

D:boost

正确答案:【theory】

36、单选题：Certain kinds of practice can be very helpful for ______your English speaking confidence

A:translating

B:faking

C:boosting

D:intimidating

正确答案:【boosting】

37、单选题：Karl Marx once said “When people are learning a foreign language，they should not ______everything into their own language.

A:intimidate

B:theory

C:boost

D:translate

正确答案:【translate】

38、单选题：Having a native English speaker’s accent or having a talk with people abroad, the former opinion is more important to Dr. Pan.

A:F

B:T

正确答案:【F】

39、单选题：In the mind of most Chinese colleges students, it’s a face-losing matter if they don’t speak English like Americans or British people.

A:F

B:T

正确答案:【T】

40、单选题：If you have a slight Chinese accent, it dose not matter. The most important thing is that you’re speaking clearly.

A:T

B:F

正确答案:【T】

第二章 单元测试

1、单选题：Simply put, when we want to farewell with others, we’re taught in school to say “__________” in a formal way.

A:how’s it going

B:Goodbye

C:Love you more than I can say

D:You bet

正确答案:【Goodbye】

2、单选题：How should we respond when the American bus driver says “hey, what’s up” to us?

A:Say “Hi” to him/her

B:Do nothing

C:Sit down

D:Say “Goodbye” to him or her

正确答案:【Say “Hi” to him/her】

3、单选题：ODO is adding a slew of words that only recently came into general usage, many have been driven by fast-moving trends in____________________.

A:Pictographs

B:Technology and culture

C:Better communication

D:Chillax

正确答案:【Technology and culture】

4、单选题：ODO has named the “2015 Word of the Year”, and the winner is an emoji, which is called the______________.

A:“Face with tears of sadness”

B:“Face with tears of bitterness”

C:“Face with tears of fun”

D:“Face with tears of joy”

正确答案:【“Face with tears of joy”】

5、单选题：A gesture is a characteristic of ______ communication in which visible body actions communicate particular message.

A:reinforcing

B:nonverbal

C:offensive

D:Sino-American

正确答案:【nonverbal】

6、单选题：Which of the following are not the common gestures that are used among our college students today?

A:thumb up.

B:OK.

C:Air Quotes.

D:V.

正确答案:【Air Quotes.】

7、单选题：More to the point, you should know not only the literal meaning but also the ______meaning

A:equivalents

B:figurative

C:command

D:wisdom

正确答案:【figurative】

8、单选题：In our daily life, which of following term means ”Mianwu biaoqing”?

A:Goose bumps.

B:Wear the pants

C:Chatterbox

D:A Poker face

正确答案:【A Poker face】

9、单选题：To tell you the truth, this might make some married men feel uncomfortable, because they are no longer the______ of the family.

A:idiomatic

B:collocation

C:the birds and bee

D:breadwinner

正确答案:【breadwinner】

10、单选题：It is obvious that ________language (s) have/has their/its own collocation of wise sayings.

A:many

B:few

C:nearly all the

D:every

正确答案:【every】

11、单选题：They indeed offer us advice about how to live a better life, and also transfer some underlying ideas, principles and values of a given culture or society. Theses sayings are called _____

A:Sayings

B:Idioms

C:Proverbs

D:Slang

正确答案:【Idioms】

12、单选题：We all know that _______are often used as short expressions to describe how someone feelsabout a situation.

A:substantial

B:pauper

C:collocations

D:expressive

正确答案:【collocations】

13、单选题：Collocations are a group of ____ or even more words that usually go together. They’re often used as short expressions to describe how someone feels about a situation.

A:three

B:four

C:two

D:one

正确答案:【two】

14、单选题：As a matter of fact, we would use a family tree to _________ the relationship among our familymembers.

A:figure

B:graph

C:chart

D:diagram

正确答案:【diagram】

15、单选题：According to Wikipedia, the term “Phrasal Verb” is commonly applied to two or three distinct but related __________ in English.

A:spoken

B:get round to

C:constructions

D:passed up

正确答案:【constructions】

16、单选题：According to Wikipedia, the term “Phrasal Verb” is commonly applied to _____or ____ distinct but related constructions in English.

A:1 , 2

B:3 , 4

C:2 , 3

D:1 , 3

正确答案:【2 , 3】

17、单选题：Truly speaking, some name phrases are so closely related to the Bible, a collection of texts ___________ in Judaism and Christianity.

A:sacred

B:versatile

C:anecdotes

D:perceived

正确答案:【sacred】

18、单选题：InAmericawhen kids want to go to the bathroom, teachers would ask them to do ___________or __________.

A:big; small

B:No.1; No.2

C:pee; poo

D:short; long

正确答案:【No.1; No.2】

19、单选题：Nowadays, without any doubt, there are tens of thousands of courses ____________on the Web for our college students to study.

A:available

B:strikingly

C:massive

D:interactions

正确答案:【available】

20、单选题：If our college students are eager to improve their spoken English, they are truly supposed to ___________the finest MOOCs from a variety of providers.

A:pick up

B:pick with

C:pick down

D:pick in

正确答案:【pick up】

21、单选题：The reason why Dr. Pan’s female student is so crazy about the MOOCs is because she can watch the foreign lectures with the English-Chinese ___________.

A:pick in

B:subtitles

C:pick up

D:words

正确答案:【subtitles】

22、单选题：The key to studying English well is to make English-learning matters fun and enjoyable through the right tools and______________.

A:rhythm

B:habits

C:abroad

D:intonation

正确答案:【habits】

23、单选题：Truly speaking, being human beings, our relationship with songs and music is deeply and hugely ____________.

A:amazing

B:interesting

C:rewarding

D:growing

正确答案:【rewarding】

24、单选题：Not surprisingly, music is a (n) __________habit, and our college students can take themselveswherever they go and they can listen to them over and over again.

A:bad

B:difficult

C:easy

D:unforgettable

正确答案:【easy】

25、单选题：To tell you the truth, we’ll be focusing on how to use daily-used ____________in English expressions.

A:rumpled

B:figuratively

C:combing

D:articles

正确答案:【articles】

26、单选题：The term “Hit someone below the belt” means that_________

A:actually hit someone

B:loose one’s belt

C:hurt someone’s heart

D:make somebody angry

正确答案:【hurt someone’s heart】

27、单选题：Nowadays, many college students inChinahave wondered: How can we move from _________ to advanced levels in English speaking?

A:painstaking

B:hydrated

C:intermediate

D:bottleneck

正确答案:【intermediate】

28、单选题：It’s more correct to say that ___________is a religious occasion.

A:The Spring Festival

B:Christmas

C:Labor Day

D:The National Day

正确答案:【Christmas】

29、单选题：In Michael’s perspective, you’d better express your creative ideas in the way that is clearly and ______________delivered.

A:combine

B:chronologically

C:audible

D:illustrate

正确答案:【chronologically】

30、单选题：We should keep in mind that the introduction should contain _____to_____ percent of the whole speech.

A:20,25

B:5,10

C:15,20

D:10,15

正确答案:【10,15】

31、单选题：According to the video, a prepared speech requires the speaker all the following except?

A:to use profound English

B:to rehearse to ensure it could flow well

C:to take just the right amount of time to deliver

D:to carefully plan it in advance

正确答案:【to use profound English】

32、单选题：Dr. Pan in the video explains, “In my own teaching, I’ve already _________ my students towatch their tapes after class.”

A:crucial

B:recommended

C:awareness

D:composed

正确答案:【recommended】

33、单选题：The useful phrases for this part, namely, how to use personal experiences or her issues or viewpoints, don’t include_____________.

A:The topic of today’s presentation is…

B:I was one of the candidates…

C:Today, I’ll tell you a story…

D:If I were one of those…

正确答案:【The topic of today’s presentation is…】

34、单选题：In the video, who has not been mentioned as a good example for a successful speech?

A:Tim Cook

B:Martin Luther King

C:Jin Xiaoyi

D:Steve Jobs

正确答案:【Martin Luther King】

35、单选题：As Henry Hartman says in this unit, “Success always comes when preparation meets _____________.”

A:contribution

B:measure

C:spontaneous

D:opportunity

正确答案:【opportunity】

36、单选题：As an old Chinese saying goes, “One minute’s brilliance on the stage takes a _______ ten years’ practice beyond that.”

A:perform

B:performing

C:performed

D:performance

正确答案:【performance】

37、单选题：If you want to become an effective impromptu speaker, you need to_________ your energies and efforts in your speaking bank.

A:flavors

B:scenic

C:invest

D:subject

正确答案:【invest】

38、单选题：You need to invest your energies and efforts in your “Speaking bank”, such as____________.

A:all of the above

B:celebrity quotes

C:interesting jokes

D:proverbs

正确答案:【all of the above】

39、单选题：So much so in fact, all the following topics are discussed among three instructors in this unit except for ______________.

A:people

B:things

C:places

D:education

正确答案:【education】

40、单选题：According to the instructors in this unit, what is the proper length for making an impromptu speech?

A:4 minutes

B:2 minutes

C:5 minutes

D:3 minutes

正确答案:【3 minutes】

第三章 单元测试

1、单选题：For the __________ step when I assisted the consul at the Consulate, one incredible thing truly surprised me.

A:inappropriate

B:locally

C:grant

D:initial

正确答案:【initial】

2、单选题：All of the applicants who were able to speak English fluently would easily get the F1 visa at the Visa Section.

A:F

B:T

正确答案:【F】

3、单选题：According to the video, how can we overcome the cultural barriers?

A:All of the above

B:By understanding communicative habits, cultural differences

C:By understanding different ways of expressions

D:By understanding manners and customs

正确答案:【All of the above】

4、单选题：Why did Michael, the consular, refuse some applicants who could speak English fluently?

A:Because they still tried to learn English.

B:Because they come to the point immediately.

C:Because they were barely able to express themselves.

D:Because they didn’t answer his questions directly

正确答案:【Because they didn’t answer his questions directly】

5、单选题：According to the video, why do many Chinese students prefer to use big fancy long words?

A:They are getting straight to the point.

B:They are expected to do that.

C:They really try to impress the readers.

D:They really have the foundation of linguistic skills.

正确答案:【They really try to impress the readers.】

6、单选题：In this unit, we’re going to ____________ the differences of Sino-Western food culture.

A:identify

B:sensation

C:beverages

D:light

正确答案:【identify】

7、单选题：Edward enjoys eating at Chinese restaurants in Hangzhou because some Chinese people will compliment him that he is good at eating with chopsticks.

A:F

B:T

正确答案:【F】

8、单选题：Why did Dr. Pan just taste a little bit of baked meat and the broth when he was at Dr. Hyle’s home?

A:Because he wanted to have pizzas and hamburgers.

B:Because he drank too much milk.

C:Because he was nearly full.

D:Because he didn’t like them.

正确答案:【Because he was nearly full.】

9、单选题：What are the features of Chinese food and other Asian food, too?

A:Dishes are put in the middle of a table.

B:People tend to have very small dishes.

C:Usually everything comes at once.

D:All of the above.

正确答案:【All of the above.】

10、单选题：Take Chinese dinner for example, all the followings can be used as the starter or appetizer except for ___________.

A:some pickled vegetables

B:chicken

C:duck tongue

D:fried peanuts

正确答案:【chicken】

11、单选题：In Chinese higher education, within so many years of rote _________, most students are taught to simply take what is said.

A:cultivating

B:loophole

C:memorization

D:cornerstone

正确答案:【memorization】

12、单选题：The “SAT” will determine what a kind of college or university the high school graduates are going to, no matter how many grades you have got in school.

A:F

B:T

正确答案:【F】

13、单选题：Successful applicants from high schools in America are on the basis of _________.

A:Good impressions they make during interviews at some universities

B:Their high school records and their scores on SATs or the “Scholastic Aptitude Tests”

C:Recommendations from their teachers

D:All of the above

正确答案:【All of the above】

14、单选题：What does Chinese type of sitting truly encourage?

A:passively listening

B:“deserted feelings”

C:one-way communication

D:teacher-centered teaching

正确答案:【one-way communication】

15、单选题：What are the basic skills for foreign teachers to possess according to the video?

A:All of the above.

B:lecturing.

C:lecture-based discussion.

D:”One-in-One” coaching and counseling.

正确答案:【All of the above.】

16、单选题：It can be easily proved that people between East and West also have their ______ compliments.

A:diverse

B:varies

C:habitually

D:embarrassed

正确答案:【diverse】

17、单选题：It is certain that the way people communicate is the way they live.

A:T

B:F

正确答案:【T】

18、单选题：If we want to successfully express ourselves in English, we need ___________.

A:to talk to foreigners in class

B:to move closer to Westerners’ thoughts

C:to express our thoughts in our own tradition

D:to ask how they feel

正确答案:【to move closer to Westerners’ thoughts】

19、单选题：What is the most common greeting usage in American culture?

A:How are you doing?

B:Nice day, isn’t it?

C:How do you do?

D:Are you OK

正确答案:【How are you doing?】

20、单选题：It’s more correct to say that Americans would be very cautious of giving a compliment about someone’s __________.

A:job

B:family

C:clothes

D:weight

正确答案:【weight】