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  3. A recent poll indicated that half the teenagers in the United States believe

A recent poll indicated that half the teenagers in the United States believe

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问题     A recent poll indicated that half the teenagers in the United States believe that communication between them and their parents is poor and further that one of the prime causes of this gap is deficient listening behavior. As a case in【C1】______. one parent believed that her daughter had a【C2】______hearing problem. She was so【C3】______that she took her to an audiologist to have her ear tested. The audiologist carefully tested both ears and【C4】______back to the parent: "There’s nothing wrong with her hearing. She’s just tuning you【C5】______."
    A【C6】______cause of the rising divorce rate (more than half of all marriages end in divorce) is the【C7】______of husbands and wives to interact effectively. They don’t listen to each other. Neither person【C8】______to the actual message sent by the other.
    【C9】______like fashion, political scientists report that a growing number of people believe that their elected【C10】______are out of touch with the constituents they are【C11】______representing. Why?【C12】______they don’t believe that they listen to them.【C13】______. it seems that sometimes our politicians don’t【C14】______listen to themselves. The following is a(n)【C15】______story: At a national legislative conference held in Albuquerque some years ago, Senator Joseph Montoya was handed a copy of a press【C16】______by a press aide shortly before he got up before the audience to【C17】______a speech. When he【C18】______to speak, to the horror of the press aide and the amusement of his audience, Montoya began reading the press release, not his speech. He began, "For immediate release. Senator Joseph M. Montoya, Democrat of New Mexico, last night told the National..." Montoya read the【C19】______six-page release, concluding with the statement that he "was repeatedly【C20】______by applause." [br] 【C15】
选项 A、authentic
B、valuable
C、true
D、pleasant
答案 C
解析 语义衔接题。下面讲述了Joseph Montoya在全国立法会议上读新闻稿而不是演讲稿这一个故事，是举例说明上面提到的“政治家甚至连自己的声音都不听”这一事实，由此可知，这一故事应该是真实的，故答案为[C]true“真实的”。[A]authentic“可靠的；真正的”，常用来指物品是真的，或某事物是值得信赖的；[B]valuable“贵重的；有价值的”；[D] pleasant“令人愉快的；惬意的”。
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