Roar: make a loud, deep sound; 大声叫喊，咆哮 He roared with laughter at the joke. 听到这笑话，他哈哈大笑。 Drive someone crazy:make someone feel very angry or annoyed; 逼得某人发疯，或受不了 His lack of order drove his girlfriend crazy. 他的不修边幅令他的女友受不了。 At one’s best: in one's best state or condition 处于最佳状态，在全盛时期 This is an example of his work at its best. 这代表了他最佳时期的作品。
EQ (Emotional Quotient) is vital to your success of career. It is defined as the mental ability you are born with which gives you your emotional sensitivity and your potential for emotional learning management skills which can help you maximize your losurvival. Emotional intelligence gives you a competitive edge. Having great intellectual abilities may make you a superb fiscal analyst or legal scholar, but a highly developed emotional intelligence will make you a candidate for CEO or a brilliant trial lawyer. An analysis of the personality traits that accompany high IQ in men who also lack these emotional competencies portrays, well, the stereotypical
Depress: make someone unhappy使抑郁，使沮丧
1) The thought of going to work tomorrow really depresses me.想到明天要上班我就心烦。 2) He's been very depressed since he lost his job. 自失去工作以来他心情一直不好。
3) Focus on the first seven seconds. What did you think and feel? How did you "read" the other person?
Meaning: Pay special attention to the first seven seconds. What did you feel and think? How did you understand the information about the other person? 4) The secret has always been you are the message. (Para. 3) Meaning: The best way has always been you yourself give off the information about you to others. When we say that a way of behaving is the secret (of achieving something,) we mean it is the best way or the only way to achieve it. 5) You were committed to what you were talking about and so absorbed in the moment you lost all self-
2) If you want to become an actor, you really have to commit yourself to it. Presentation: the presenting of something 表现，描述 I was asked to give a short presentation on the aims of the plan. 他们要求我就这计划的目的作一个简短的陈述。 Rate 1) the speed with which something happens or is done速度， 速率 He works at a very fast rate. 他工作的速度非常快。 2) the number of occasion within a certain period of time when something happens 比率，率 There is a high accident rate in this factory. 这个工厂的事故率很高。
Attitude
What is your attitude to her work?
Reaction What’s his reaction to your idea? Range 1) Prices range from $10 to $25.
2) There are 80 students whose ages range from 20 to 40.
2. Language points
1) Research shows we make up our minds about people through unspoken communication within seven seconds of meeting them. (Para. 1) Meaning: "Research shows within the first seven seconds when we meet someone, we form our opinion about him or her through nonverbal communication." 2) Consciously or unconsciously, we show our true feelings with our eyes, faces, bodies and attitudes, causing a chain of reactions, ranging from comfort to fear. (Para. 1) Meaning: "Whether we are aware of, or unaware of it, we use our eyes, faces, bodies and attitudes to express our feelings. This causes a sequence of various reactions from comfort to fear."
EQ involves the ability to perceive and identify emotions in faces, tone of voice, body language. If you know how to perceive and identify emotions in people’s behavior, you may know how to behave in the best way to reveal the emotions you want to convey to others, that is, you know how to make a good impression on others. This is the first step to success.
1) She’s always trying to impress people with her new clothes.
Conscious 1) The children were conscious of their mother’s unhappiness. 2) He was badly hurt, but he remained conscious.
2. Lead-in activity
Before reading the passage, according to the title “How to make a good impression”, discuss in groups the way to making a good impression. We shall see which group will get the most. This group will get a little prize.
Absorb
1) This material absorbs water.
2) History is a subject that absorbs her. 3) The artist was so absorbed in her work that she didn't’t hear her visitor enter the room. 4) Time passes quickly when you are absorbed in reading a good book. Consistent 1) He was consistent in arriving late.
nerd: critical and condescending, emotionally bland. By contrast, men with the traits that mark emotional intelligence are poised and outgoing, committed to people and causes, sympathetic and caring, with a rich but appropriate emotional life -- they're comfortable with themselves, others, and the social universe they live in.