雅思阅读真题（Part 3）
Part 3 · 考频：超高频 · 最近考试：2017.2.18
An assessment of how effective an art-based program was in improving the communication skills of engineers.
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答案：G failures
原文定位：Our underlying concept with CONNECT is that most communication breakdowns involving engineers happen because they know every aspect of their subject matter and assume that others do too
答案：B details
原文定位：Our underlying concept with CONNECT is that most communication breakdowns involving engineers happen because they know every aspect of their subject matter and assume that others do too
答案：F expectations
原文定位：Communicating with an audience is essentially a social skill with a behavioral basis. A fact that becomes all too apparent when one's audience has a divergent set of assumptions
答案：D regulations
原文定位：Engineers spend a great deal of time ensuring their work is accurate, and their solutions to engineering problems are workable, meet official requirements, are environmentally sound, and so on
答案：I tools
原文定位：CONNECT applied stage movement analysis to interaction with clients, meetings with colleagues, and job interviews. It also made use of vocal and physical exercises and directing techniques, to equip technical personnel for the everyday communication challenges they face, as well as for formal talks
答案：A presentations
原文定位：It also made use of vocal and physical exercises and directing techniques, to equip technical personnel for the everyday communication challenges they face, as well as for formal talks
答案：NO
原文定位：Our data demonstrate that, while not every engineer is likely to become a great communicator, almost all are capable of becoming better communicators
答案：NOT GIVEN
原文定位：In a survey of corporate recruiters, potential employees who had taken one or more CONNECT workshops were rated higher overall in areas such as confidence and maturity than those who had not participated in CONNECT. Those who had taken a range of workshops, including one in advanced non-verbal behavior, were rated even higher
答案：YES
原文定位：These results were achieved after mixed early assessment results led us to significantly refine our methods
答案：YES
原文定位：Too often in early workshops, our performer-facilitators assumed that a technical audience would respond to theatrical training material in the same positive way that performers did. However, we came to realize that technical audiences need to be approached differently if arts-based training is to achieve its full potential
答案：C explaining the context in which the rules for effective training were arrived at.
原文定位：Just as important to the improvements we saw after the first year was an adjustment to how we approached the students themselves;we came to realize that technical audiences need to be approached differently if arts-based training is to achieve its full potential;Adjusting our approach to achieve this was key to the improvement in results;What we learned during this process can be distilled into 'rules' for maximizing the effectiveness of performing-arts-based training in a technical field
答案：C The engineers were initially unconvinced of their value.
原文定位：the experiential approach met resistance because the purpose of the exercise was not always immediately obvious
答案：A It complemented the way the technical graduates usually worked.
原文定位：The demonstrative approach, on the other hand, mirrors the way technical objects are accomplished, which is to solve problems through testing and observation
答案：B The facilitators had to put into practice what they were attempting to teach.
原文定位：We have learned that you can't close someone else's audience gap without looking at things from their perspective