Eye contact is a nonverbal technique that helps the speaker "sell" his or her ideas to an audience. Eye contact also helps hold a listener’s interest. A successful speaker must try to have eye contact with an audience. To have a good relationship with listeners, a speaker should make direct eye contact for at least 75 percent of the time. Some speakers focus only on their notes. Others gaze over the heads of their listeners. Both are likely to lose audience’s interest and respect. People who make eye contact while speaking, whether from a podium or from across the table, are "considered not only as exceptionally good at speaking by their target but also as more believable and serious."
To show the power of eye contact in daily life, we have only to consider how people behave when they happen to look at each other on the street. At one extreme are those people who feel forced to smile when they make eye contact. At the other extreme are those who feel not relaxed and immediately look away. To make eye contact, it seems, is to make a certain link with someone.

1. What is the main idea of the passage?

a. How to Make Eye Contact

b. When and Where to Avoid Eye Contact

c. Eye Contact as a Means of Communication

d. Effect of Eye Contact on People's Daily Behavior

2. The word "target" in the last sentence of the first paragraph can best be replaced by ………. .

　　 a. destination b. goal c. audience d. followers

3. According to the passage, a good speaker must ………………. .

a. "sell" his or her ideas to an audience      b. maintain direct eye contact with listeners
c. be very persuasive and believable               d. be exceptionally well-disposed

4. Those who are successful in making eye contact are ………………. .

a. only considered successful lecturers

b. referred to as boring and tiring people

c. considered not good at speaking but more reliable

d. considered both good at speaking and more reliable

5. Direct eye contact in giving a speech ………………. .

a. helps the lecturer have a good relationship with the audience

b. causes the speaker lose his/her listeners’ interest and respect

c. indicates the listeners’ interest

d. shows the listeners’ respect

6. The writer believes to give a good speech, you should keep eye contact for four to five seconds at a time.

a. True             b. False                c. Not mentioned

6. The writer provides an example to show the impact of eye contact in daily life.

a. True             b. False                c. Not mentioned