Often
speakers at a meeting experience dry mouths and ask for a glass of water. You
can solve the problem by activating the saliva in you mouth. First gently bite
the edges of your tongue with your teeth. Or, press your entire tongue to the
bottom of your mouth and hold it there until the saliva flow. Or you can imagine
that you are slicing a big juicy lemon and sucking the juice.
Before you begin your talk, be kind to your voice. Avoid milk or creamy drinks
which coat your throat. Keen your throat wet by drinking a little sweetened warm
tea or diluted fruit juice. If you sense that you are losing
your voice, stop talking completely. Save your voice for your speech. You may
feel foolish using paper to write notes, but the best thing you can do is to
rest your voice. If you need to see a doctor, perhaps you can get some advice
from a professional singer. In the meantime, do not even talk in a low
voice. What about drinking alcohol to wet your throat? I advice
you not to touch alcohol before speaking. The problem with alcohol is that one
drink gives you a little confidence. The second drink gives you even more
confidence. Finally you will feel all-powerful and you will feel you can do
everything, but in fact your brain and your mouth do not work together properly.
Save the alcohol until you finish speaking. Perhaps you want to
accept the advice, but you may wonder if you can ever change the habits of a
lifetime. Of course you can. Goethe, who lived before indoor skating rinks or
swimming pools, said, "We learn to skate in the summer and swim in the winter."
Take this message to heart and give yourself time to develop your new habits. If
you are willing to change, you will soon be able to say that you will never
forget these techniques because they became a part of your body.
单选题
All the following are mentioned in the passage about how to solve the
problem of dry mouths EXCEPT ______.