填空题

A person’s ability to interpret, understand, or respond to symbols is often hurt by noise. Noise is any (36) that gets in the way of sharing meaning. Much of your success as a communicator depends on how you (37) with external, internal, and semantic noises.
External noises are the sights, sounds, and other signals that draw people’s attention away from intended meaning. For instance, during a student’s (38) of how a food processor works, your attention may be (39) to the sound of an airplane overhead. Perhaps during the explanation, a particularly (40) classmate glances toward you, and for a moment your attention turns to that person. Such visual (41) to your attention is also external noise.
Internal noises are the thoughts and feelings that (42) with meaning. Perhaps you let your mind (43) to thoughts of the good time you had at a disco last night or to the argument you had with someone this morning. (44) , then you have created internal noise.
Semantic(语义的) noises are (45) . Suppose that a student mentioned that the salesman who sells food processors at the department store seemed like a "gay fellow". If you think of "gay" as a word for homosexual, you would miss the student’s meaning entirely. Since meaning depends on your own experience, others may at times (46) . When this happens, you have semantic noises. A person’s ability to interpret, understand, or respond to symbols is often hurt by noise. Noise is any (36) that gets in the way of sharing meaning. Much of your success as a communicator depends on how you (37) with external, internal, and semantic noises.
External noises are the sights, sounds, and other signals that draw people’s attention away from intended meaning. For instance, during a student’s (38) of how a food processor works, your attention may be (39) to the sound of an airplane overhead. Perhaps during the explanation, a particularly (40) classmate glances toward you, and for a moment your attention turns to that person. Such visual (41) to your attention is also external noise.
Internal noises are the thoughts and feelings that (42) with meaning. Perhaps you let your mind (43) to thoughts of the good time you had at a disco last night or to the argument you had with someone this morning. (44) , then you have created internal noise.
Semantic(语义的) noises are (45) . Suppose that a student mentioned that the salesman who sells food processors at the department store seemed like a "gay fellow". If you think of "gay" as a word for homosexual, you would miss the student’s meaning entirely. Since meaning depends on your own experience, others may at times (46) . When this happens, you have semantic noises.