Câu hỏi: 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 from 44 to 50
Nonverbal behaviour is an area of psychology that receives stacks of media attention. The idea that the vast majority of communication occurs nonverbally is quoted everywhere from self-help literature to popular psychology articles. The figures which are regularly bandied about are: we get 55% of the content of a message from the visual component i.e. body language), 38% from the auditory component (i.e. tone of voice) and just 7% from the actual words used. Sounds implausible? That's because it is.
The original experiments which gave rise to these figures only applied to the communication of emotions - specifically, feelings of like or dislike. The author of the study, himself, stressed that to apply his findings to communication in general would be a gross misrepresentation of his research. That didn't stop this from happening though. Let's think about it for a minute. How can you possibly get 93% of communication without the words? If you watch a foreign-language film, and observe the body language and listen to the vocal tones - can you really understand 93% of the plot? Of course not.
In 2009, BBC's Radio 4 interviewed the man whose research has been misrepresented in so many ways, Albert Mehrabian. During the radio interview, Mehrabian blew a hole in the interpretation by explaining that if he were asked where a pencil was, he would struggle to communicate that is was in the third drawer down of the left hand side of the desk in the spare bedroom without using words.
Nevertheless, those who teach communication skills to business executives, salesmen, politicians and others, continue to perpetuate the myth, mindlessly regurgitating it without bothering to check if it is true. Communication is terrifically and beautifully complex. Non-verbal aspects of communication obviously contribute to message content, but the idea they deliver 93% of the entire message is entirely false.
A. Humans can understand over half of communication via body language.
B. Humans can guess one's characteristics from his or her tone of voice.
C. Humans get at least 7% of message content from the actual words used.
D. All self-help books introduce ways to communicate nonverbally.
Nonverbal behaviour is an area of psychology that receives stacks of media attention. The idea that the vast majority of communication occurs nonverbally is quoted everywhere from self-help literature to popular psychology articles. The figures which are regularly bandied about are: we get 55% of the content of a message from the visual component i.e. body language), 38% from the auditory component (i.e. tone of voice) and just 7% from the actual words used. Sounds implausible? That's because it is.
The original experiments which gave rise to these figures only applied to the communication of emotions - specifically, feelings of like or dislike. The author of the study, himself, stressed that to apply his findings to communication in general would be a gross misrepresentation of his research. That didn't stop this from happening though. Let's think about it for a minute. How can you possibly get 93% of communication without the words? If you watch a foreign-language film, and observe the body language and listen to the vocal tones - can you really understand 93% of the plot? Of course not.
In 2009, BBC's Radio 4 interviewed the man whose research has been misrepresented in so many ways, Albert Mehrabian. During the radio interview, Mehrabian blew a hole in the interpretation by explaining that if he were asked where a pencil was, he would struggle to communicate that is was in the third drawer down of the left hand side of the desk in the spare bedroom without using words.
Nevertheless, those who teach communication skills to business executives, salesmen, politicians and others, continue to perpetuate the myth, mindlessly regurgitating it without bothering to check if it is true. Communication is terrifically and beautifully complex. Non-verbal aspects of communication obviously contribute to message content, but the idea they deliver 93% of the entire message is entirely false.
(Adapted from Upstream by Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley)
According to paragraph 1, what is it that the writer finds hard to believe?A. Humans can understand over half of communication via body language.
B. Humans can guess one's characteristics from his or her tone of voice.
C. Humans get at least 7% of message content from the actual words used.
D. All self-help books introduce ways to communicate nonverbally.
Theo đoạn 1, người viết cảm thấy điều gì khó tin?
A. Con người có thể hiểu hơn một nửa giao tiếp thông qua ngôn ngữ cơ thể.
B. Con người có thể đoán được đặc điểm của một người từ thanh điệu của giọng nói
C. Con người hiểu được ít nhất 7% nội dung tin nhắn qua những từ thực tế được sử dụng.
D. Tất cả các sách self-help đều giới thiệu các cách giao tiếp phi ngôn ngữ.
Thông tin; The figures which are regularly bandied about are: we get 55% of the content of a message from the visual component i.e. body language), 38% from the auditory component (i.e. tone of voice) and just 7% from the actual words used. Sounds implausible? That's because it is.
Tạm dịch: Các số liệu thường xuyên được bàn tán là: chúng ta nhận được 55% nội dung của một thông điệp từ thành phần thị giác, tức là ngôn ngữ cơ thể), 38% từ thành phần thính giác (tức là giọng nói) và chỉ 7% từ các từ thực tế được sử dụng. Nghe có vẻ phi lý? Bởi vì nó thực sự phi lý.
→ Tác giả khó tin việc các yếu tố thị giác như ngôn ngữ chiếm đến 55% nội dung của một thông điệp
A. Con người có thể hiểu hơn một nửa giao tiếp thông qua ngôn ngữ cơ thể.
B. Con người có thể đoán được đặc điểm của một người từ thanh điệu của giọng nói
C. Con người hiểu được ít nhất 7% nội dung tin nhắn qua những từ thực tế được sử dụng.
D. Tất cả các sách self-help đều giới thiệu các cách giao tiếp phi ngôn ngữ.
Thông tin; The figures which are regularly bandied about are: we get 55% of the content of a message from the visual component i.e. body language), 38% from the auditory component (i.e. tone of voice) and just 7% from the actual words used. Sounds implausible? That's because it is.
Tạm dịch: Các số liệu thường xuyên được bàn tán là: chúng ta nhận được 55% nội dung của một thông điệp từ thành phần thị giác, tức là ngôn ngữ cơ thể), 38% từ thành phần thính giác (tức là giọng nói) và chỉ 7% từ các từ thực tế được sử dụng. Nghe có vẻ phi lý? Bởi vì nó thực sự phi lý.
→ Tác giả khó tin việc các yếu tố thị giác như ngôn ngữ chiếm đến 55% nội dung của một thông điệp
Đáp án A.