2013年12月四级听力模拟试题十_大学英语听力

2013年12月四级听力模拟试题十

　　Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　29. Why is it difficult for you to go to sleep according to the writer?

　　30. Why would you feel tired all day?

　　31. Who is the speaker?

　　Passage three

　　Many people are afraid to assert themselves. Dr. Alberti, author of Stand Up, Speak Out, and Talk Back, thinks its because their self-respect is low. Our whole set up is designed to make people distrust themselves, says Alberti. Theres always a superior around a parent, a teacher, a boss who knows better. These superiors often gain when they chip away at your self-image. But Alberti and other scientists are doing something to help people assert themselves. They offer assertiveness training courses AT for short. In the AT courses people learn that they have a right to be themselves. They learn to speak out and feel good about doing so. They learn to be more active without hurting other people. In one way, learning to speak out is to overcome fear. A group taking an AT course will help the timid person to lose his fear. But AT uses an even stronger motivethe need to share. The timid person speaks out in the group because he wants to express how he feels. Whether or not you speak up for yourself depends on your self-image. If someone you face is more important than you, you may feel like less of a person. You start to doubt your own good sense. You go by the other persons demand. But, why should you? AT says you can get to feel good about yourself. And once you do, you can learn to speak out.