IT IS THE HIGH TIME JOHN UNDERSTANDS HOW TO BEHAVE PROPERLY TOWARDS...

Câu 30: It is the high time John understands how to behave properly towards the old men.

A. understands B. high C. towards D. how to

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate

the correct answer to each of the questions.

A number of factors related to the voice reveal the personality of the speaker. The first is the

broad area of communication, which includes imparting information by use of language,

communicating with a group or an individual, and specialized communication through

performance. A person conveys thoughts and ideas through choice of words, by a tone of voice

that is pleasant or unpleasant, gentle or harsh, by the rhythm that is inherent within the

language itself, and by speech rhythms that are flowing and regular or uneven and hesitant, and

finally, by the pitch and melody of the utterance. When speaking before a group, a person's tone

may indicate unsureness or fright, confidence or calm. At interpersonal levels, the tone may

reflect ideas and feelings over and above the words chosen, or may belie them. Here the

speaker's tone can consciously or unconsciously reflect intuitive sympathy or antipathy, lack of

concern or interest, fatigue, anxiety, enthusiasm or excitement, all of which are usually

discernible by the acute listener. Public performance is a manner of communication that is highly

specialized with its own techniques for obtaining effects by voice and /or gesture. The

motivation derived from the text, and in the case of singing, the music, in combination with the

performer's skills, personality, and ability to create empathy will determine the success

of artistic, political, or pedagogic communication.

Second, the voice gives psychological clues to a person's self-image, perception of others, and

emotional health. Self-image can be indicated by a tone of voice that is confident, pretentious,

shy, aggressive, outgoing, or exuberant, to name only a few personality traits. Also the sound

may give a clue to the facade or mask of that person, for example, a shy person hiding behind an

overconfident front. How a speaker perceives the listener's receptiveness, interest, or sympathy

in any given conversation can drastically alter the tone of presentation, by encouraging or

discouraging the speaker. Emotional health is evidenced in the voice by free and melodic sounds

of the happy, by constricted and harsh sound of the angry, and by dull and lethargic qualities of

the depressed.