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I strongly believe that it is rather important to be a good listener. And although I have become a better listener than I was ten years ago, I have to admit I’m still only a(n) ___51___ listener.

Effective listening is more than simply ___52___ the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It’s being ___53___ listening to the entire thought of someone ___54___ waiting impatiently for your chance to respond. In some ways, the way we fail to listen is symbolic of the way we live. We often treat communication as if it were a ___55___. It's almost like our goal is to have no time ___56___ between the conclusion of the sentence of the person we are speaking with and the beginning of our own.

My wife and I were recently at a cafe having lunch, eavesdropping(偷聽) on the conversations around us. It seemed that no one was really listening to one another. ___57___, they were taking turns not listening to one another. I asked my wife if I did the same thing. With a smile on her face she said, “Only sometimes.”

Slowing down your responses and becoming a better listener ___58___ you in becoming a more peaceful person. It takes ___59___ from you. If you think about it, you'll notice that it takes an enormous amount of energy and is very stressful to be sitting at the edge of your seat trying to ___60___ what the person in front of you (or on the telephone) is going to say so that you can ___61___ your response. But as you wait for the person you are communicating with to finish, as you simply listen more ___62___, to what is being said, you’ll notice that the pressure you feel is off. You’ll immediately feel more ___63___, and so will the people you are talking to. They will feel safe in slowing down their own responses because they won’t feel in ___64___ with you for “air time”! Not only will becoming a better listener make you a more patient person, it will also ___65___ the quality of your relationships. Everyone loves to talk to someone who truly listens to what they are saying.

51. A. super B. adequate C. accurate D. amateur

52. A. developing B. offending C. avoiding D. escaping

53. A. moderate B. resistant C. comfortable D. objective

54. A. rather than B. apart from C. other than D. in spite of

55. A. game B. race C. trade D. burden

56. A. limit B. control C. drain D. gap

57. A. Instead B. However C. Therefore D. Meanwhile

58. A. allows B. aids C. forbids D. enables

59. A. pleasure B. patience C. instinct D. pressure

60. A. interrupt B. suggest C. guess D. ensure

61. A. show up B. pick out C. break into D. fire back

62. A. effectively B. attentively C. honestly D. eagerly