While I ________ with my friend, she came in.

1. A.
   am talking
2. B.
   was talking
3. C.
   talked
4. D.
   am going to talk

My teachers suggested that I see a speech specialist (专家) in school.
I never really gave much thought to my speech. If other people understood what I was saying, then that was good enough. I didn’t mind repeating myself many times.
Before testing me, the speech specialist asked me what I thought of having good speech. I told her I thought it was not important.
“Well, when you are in an interview for a job, and they don’t know what you are saying, what are they going to say to you? Nice meeting you, bye,” she said.
Maybe good speech was important. I took part in 20-minute classes each week with the specialist.
After she tested me, she told me that I spoke too fast, and didn’t give enough eye contact (眼神交流). I learned that when I made eye contact with someone, it meant that I was talking to that person, and I could also see what he or she thought about what I was saying.
When my first speech class started, I found that I had been speaking too fast to be understood. Every time I spoke too fast, the specialist stopped me and told me to start again. At first, I got stopped after almost every other sentence. After a while, I felt my speech slow down. I wasn’t sure if people could understand me better, but my friends stopped asking me to repeat myself.
Speech is an important skill to have. If you do have good speech, that’s a good thing, but if you don’t have it, it is never too late to improve.
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寒假中，Wang Wei, Jiang Jian, Hu Peng , Ma Lili, Shao Bing五人分别参与了不同的社会服务工作。阅读下列材料，从A、B、C、D、E中找出与五个人相关联的活动项目。

A、Children’s Hospital??

B、The Old People’s Home??

C、City Clean-up

D、The Left-behind Cildren’s Home???

E、Planting trees

Wang Wei: It was a sunny but a little cold morning. I with many people went to hills outside the city.We dug the holes, planted the small trees and watered them well.I hope we can make our environment greener and more beautiful.

Jiang Jian, One Sunday, I went to visit the kids who were not well in hospital. I stayed with them all the morning,playing games,taking walks,or even helping them with homework.While I was with them,time went quickly.

Hu Peng , It was a meaningful and educational trip for me.We family went to a village in the mountains.There we stayed with five children whose parents couldn’t come back home for the festival with them. During the three days,we did many interesting and helpful things.? .

Ma Lili,? One of the most important and meaningful things for me in the winter holiday is to join Cleaning Our City.We cleaned the street,picked up the rubbish and called on more people to help out with our city.

Shao Bing: During the last week, I with my classmates went to see the old people. We bought some fruit ,flowers and something else. We cleaned the house,talked with the old people. Some of us sang and danced ,some read newspapers to them. I am sure it was the most enjoyable time for the old people,and for us,too.

Wang Wei__1.__, Jiang Jian_2.__, Hu Peng __3.__,Ma Lili___4.__ Shao Bing _5._