Lack of eye contact may create a barrier between the speaker and the audience, making the speaker look untrustworthy or unsure of him/herself.
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- 中国大学MOOC: The audience may feel the speaker is ____________ if he avoids eye contact.
- Eye contact is important<br/>because wrong contact may create a communication ________. A: tragedy B: vacuum C: question D: barrier
- Eye contact with an audience, according to the author, has all the following benefits for the speaker EXCEPT that it doesn't ______. A: help the speaker to control the audience B: help the speaker to gain audience interest and esteem C: help the speaker to know whether he is talking too much about a certain point D: help the speaker to analyze his audience when he is beginning his speech
- When your speech call on the audience to do something, a direct question may be effective. It not only creates a common bond between speaker and audience, but also transfers to the audience some of the responsibility for achieving the speaker’s goals.
- 3. By using eye contact, the speaker should do the following except_______. A: Establishing eye contact with the whole audience B: Staring at one audience all the time. C: Scanning your audience of a large group. D: Avoiding reading script from your cellphone.