12. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions
that follow:
Never assume air, or parade your wisdom. The audience is very
intelligent, so never understimate it) It is really a bane when the speaker
sometimes suffers from superiority complex and delivers the talk like
great teachers and wise preachers/ Air your views frankly but
politely. Huminity is a virtue which is universally appreciated and
reciprocated. Never think in terms of doling out wisdom after wisdom
in your talk. At occasions you should share a limitation or two with
your audience and the fun at your expense. Be witty, humorous.
polite, light-hearicd. I dentify yourself with your audience. Be in their
shoes in order to adapt your speech to them. Analyse well how your
message is going to help people to overcome their problems and
improving life. See the relevance of your talk and the constructive
solutions it suggests for the improvement of their quality ofinateriai
and mental life. They should feel wiser and uplifted after naving
listened to you. There should be a positive impact on the audience.
(a) What topic is being discussed in this passage?
(b) What complex do sometimes speakers suffer from? 12
(c) Name the virtue that is universally appreciated and
reciprocated.
(d) What'impact should a successful speech leave on the
audience?
(e) What do the expressions-'assume air' 'superiority complex
and 'doing out' mean in the passage?
Answers
1) This passage tells us how to deliver a speech in a proper manner.
2) Sometimes the speaker s suffer from superiority complex and deliver the talk like great teachers and wise preachers.
3) Huminity is a virtue which is universally appreciated and reciprocated.
4) A successful speech should help people to overcome their problems and
improving life. It should be witty, humorous, polite and light-hearted.
5) To "assume air" means to think or behave as though one is superior to others or better than one really is.
"superiority complex" is an attitude of superiority which conceals actual feelings of inferiority and failure.
"doing out" in this passage means to make a show of off your wisdom while delivering a speech
hope this helps :)
Answer:
What complex do sometimes speakers suffer from?