Question

1- Read the given passage carefully and answers the questions that follow.
In order to speak well you must know your subject. Some speakers acquire their
information from books, others from experience and still others, the best, from both. It
is useless to endeavor to explain how speakers would be should acquire power for their
speeches. Any such explanations would involve a discussion of the whole question of
education. In short, if a speaker has got very little in his head, he can get very little out
of it. Socrates was of opinion that everyone can speak sufficiently well about what he
understands, but, as Cicero remarked, it would be more true to say that no one can speak
well on subject which he does not understand but that even if he understands a subject,
he cannot speak well unless he knows how to express himself
Questions:
a) What are the basic requirements for speaking well on subject?
b) What is the difference of opinion on speech between Socrates and Cicero?
c) Explain the portions italicized?
d) Give the substance of the passage in your own words?
e) Give a suitable title to the above passage?​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) We should know the that subject well.We should have experience and we can read many books.

b) socrates was of opinion that everyone sufficiently well about what they understand whereas cicero means no one can not speak of that subject or could not understand.

c) This passage tells us about how to learn about a subject.

d) This passage conveys a message that that we have many ways to learn a subject on the basis of the experience and our knowledge of reading books.

e) THE SUBJECT SWOTTING