【2017年整理】新世与纪大学英语课件.pptVIP

;;;;;;;;;;;;;F;;;;Most of us would agree that keeping good relationships with other people, even with those closest to us, can be difficult and requires good communication between one another. Good communication naturally involves both speaking and listening. But while we commonly emphasize the role of speaking in communicating with others, we tend to neglect that of listening. Read the following text and see what it says about the role of listening in improving human relationships.;How Well Can We Listen? Kathleen T. McWhorter;Experts tend to resort to the term “generation gap” to explain the conflicts between parents and children. Can this term be applied to the cases mentioned above? ;reduce them are by no means easy to be sought, but it is equally true to say that there is bound to be a solution to every problem. Part of the solution to human conflicts is to avoid misunderstanding. ;;;;;;Though there might be room for hesitation in the adoption of it when “generation” is taken into account, it is far from wrong to borrow the rest in making an analysis.;;Curiously enough, in a modern society where not a few advanced technological means of communication such as the mobile phone and pager have been developed, people are still confronted with this problem.;People may wonder why their listening ability is undesirable when their hearing ability is physically sound.;Believing that hearing is a physiological function, which comes to us naturally, we take it for granted that listening does not require much effort.;A speaker may not be able to keep pace with the working of the listener’s mind.;With much free time left at their disposal, the listeners are likely to be carried away by their own thoughts and they soon lose their way.;Since each person has his own range of interests, when the speaker talks about something that is of no personal interest or concern to him, he would “switch off the talking.”;This automatic control exercises its influence especially