2007一2008学年第二学期2008级期末口语考试 Band 2 Test 1 1.Reading aloud.(1 minute) Directions:Read aloud the following short passage.Pay attention to your pronunciation and intonation while reading. Consider that the same cultural soil producing the English language also nourished the great principles of freedom and rights of man in the modern world. The first shoots sprang up in England,and they grew stronger in America.The English-speaking peoples have defeated all efforts to build fences around their language.Indeed,language police,teachers,writers or the intellectual elite. English is,and always has been,the tongue of the common man. 2.Restating.(4 minutes) Directions:You are going to hear a short passage about Couch Potato twice. Please restate what you've heard and then answer the following question. How do you view the life of a couch potato? Test 1 band 2.mp3 Couch Potatoes 3.Communicative Function:asking about people's opinion giving opinions (2 minutes) Directions:Make a conversation with your partner according to the given situation.Use where appropriate the structures and expressions you've learnt. You and your friend are discussing the traffic situations in Tianjin.Express
2007－2008 学年第二学期 2008 级期末口语考试 Band 2 Test 1 1. Reading aloud. (1 minute) Directions: Read aloud the following short passage. Pay attention to your pronunciation and intonation while reading. Consider that the same cultural soil producing the English language also nourished the great principles of freedom and rights of man in the modern world. The first shoots sprang up in England, and they grew stronger in America. The English-speaking peoples have defeated all efforts to build fences around their language. Indeed, language police, teachers, writers or the intellectual elite. English is, and always has been, the tongue of the common man. 2. Restating. (4 minutes) Directions: You are going to hear a short passage about Couch Potato twice. Please restate what you’ve heard and then answer the following question. How do you view the life of a couch potato? Test 1 band 2.mp3 Couch Potatoes 3. Communicative Function: asking about people’s opinion & giving opinions (2 minutes) Directions: Make a conversation with your partner according to the given situation. Use where appropriate the structures and expressions you’ve learnt. You and your friend are discussing the traffic situations in Tianjin. Express
your opinion as to what the government and each member of society should do to solve the traffic problems in this city. Test 2 1.Reading aloud.(1 minute) Directions:Read aloud the following short passage.Pay attention to your pronunciation and intonation while reading. How much longer we'11 have enough energy to stay on here is anybody's guess-perhaps for quite a while,perhaps not.When time comes,we'11 leave with a feeling of sorrow but also with a sense of pride at what we've been able to accomplish.We should make a fair profit on the sale of the place,too.We've invested about $35,000 of our own money in it,and we could just about double that if we sold today. 2.Restating.(4 minutes) Directions:You are going to hear a short passage about cabin fever twice.Please restate what you've heard and then answer the following question. How can we solve the problem of cabin fever? Test 2 band 2.mp3 THE CABIN PEVER DEBATES %2ST.2006* Cabin Fever 3.Communicative Function:inquiring about future activities giving suggestions (2 minutes) Directions:Make a conversation with your partner according to the given situation.Use where appropriate the structures and expressions you've learnt
your opinion as to what the government and each member of society should do to solve the traffic problems in this city. Test 2 1. Reading aloud. (1 minute) Directions: Read aloud the following short passage. Pay attention to your pronunciation and intonation while reading. How much longer we’ll have enough energy to stay on here is anybody’s guess—perhaps for quite a while, perhaps not. When time comes, we’ll leave with a feeling of sorrow but also with a sense of pride at what we’ve been able to accomplish. We should make a fair profit on the sale of the place, too. We’ve invested about $35,000 of our own money in it, and we could just about double that if we sold today. 2. Restating. (4 minutes) Directions: You are going to hear a short passage about cabin fever twice. Please restate what you’ve heard and then answer the following question. How can we solve the problem of cabin fever? Test 2 band 2.mp3 Cabin Fever 3. Communicative Function: inquiring about future activities & giving suggestions (2 minutes) Directions: Make a conversation with your partner according to the given situation. Use where appropriate the structures and expressions you’ve learnt
You are talking with your friend about the ideal jobs both of you want to take in the future.And give suggestions to each other. Test 3 1.Reading aloud.(1 minute) Directions:Read aloud the following short passage.Pay attention to your pronunciation and intonation while reading. Now,approaching another Thanksgiving,I have asked myself what I will wish for all who are reading this,for our nation,indeed for our whole world-since,quoting a good and wise friend of mine,"In the end we are mightily and merely people,each with similar needs."First,I wish for us,of course,the simple common sense to achieve world peace,that being paramount for the very survival of our kind.And there's something else I wish-so strongly that I have had this line printed across the bottom of all my stationary:"Find the good-and praise it." 2.Restating.(4 minutes) Directions:You are going to hear a short passage twice about some expressions with the word 'green'.Please restate what you've heard and then answer the following question. How can you deal with a friend green with envy? Test 3 band 2.mp3 Your Friendly Green-Eyed Monster... 5 f Greenback of852色ac划 P原0 Greenback green-eyed 3.Communicative Function:seeing the doctor (2 minutes) Directions:Make a conversation with your partner according to the given situation.Use where appropriate the structures and expressions you've learnt. Suppose you are a doctor and your partner is a patient,who has felt tired and
You are talking with your friend about the ideal jobs both of you want to take in the future. And give suggestions to each other. Test 3 1. Reading aloud. (1 minute) Directions: Read aloud the following short passage. Pay attention to your pronunciation and intonation while reading. Now, approaching another Thanksgiving, I have asked myself what I will wish for all who are reading this, for our nation, indeed for our whole world—since, quoting a good and wise friend of mine, “In the end we are mightily and merely people, each with similar needs.” First, I wish for us, of course, the simple common sense to achieve world peace, that being paramount for the very survival of our kind. And there’s something else I wish—so strongly that I have had this line printed across the bottom of all my stationary: “Find the good—and praise it.” 2. Restating. (4 minutes) Directions: You are going to hear a short passage twice about some expressions with the word ‘green’. Please restate what you’ve heard and then answer the following question. How can you deal with a friend green with envy? Test 3 band 2.mp3 Greenback green-eyed 3. Communicative Function: seeing the doctor (2 minutes) Directions: Make a conversation with your partner according to the given situation. Use where appropriate the structures and expressions you’ve learnt. Suppose you are a doctor and your partner is a patient, who has felt tired and
weak for a month.Ask your patient about his or her symptoms and prescribe medication and offer some advice. Test 4 1.Reading aloud.(1 minute) Directions:Read aloud the following short passage.Pay attention to your pronunciation and intonation while reading. She looks out of the window.What was there to count?There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen,and the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away.An old,old ivy vine climbed half way up the brick wall.The cold breath of autumn had blown away its leaves,leaving it almost bare."Six,"said Johnsy,in almost a whisper."They're falling faster now.Three days a go there were almost a hundred. It made my head ache to count them.But now it's easy.There goes another one.There are only five left now. 2.Restating.(3minutes) Directions:You are going to hear a short passage about monkeys twice.Please restate what you've heard and then answer the following question. How do you view the practice of keeping a monkey as a pet? Test 4 band 2.mp3 “Darwinian man,,…,at best is only a monkey shaved.” 3.Communicative Function:ordering a meal at a restaurant (2 minutes) Directions:Make a conversation with your partner according to the given situation.Use where appropriate the structures and expressions you've learnt
weak for a month. Ask your patient about his or her symptoms and prescribe medication and offer some advice. Test 4 1. Reading aloud. (1 minute) Directions: Read aloud the following short passage. Pay attention to your pronunciation and intonation while reading. She looks out of the window. What was there to count? There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away. An old, old ivy vine climbed half way up the brick wall. The cold breath of autumn had blown away its leaves, leaving it almost bare. “Six, “said Johnsy, in almost a whisper. “ They’re falling faster now. Three days a go there were almost a hundred. It made my head ache to count them. But now it’s easy. There goes another one. There are only five left now.” 2. Restating. (3minutes) Directions: You are going to hear a short passage about monkeys twice. Please restate what you’ve heard and then answer the following question. How do you view the practice of keeping a monkey as a pet? Test 4 band 2.mp3 “Darwinian man, … , at best is only a monkey shaved.” 3. Communicative Function: ordering a meal at a restaurant (2 minutes) Directions: Make a conversation with your partner according to the given situation. Use where appropriate the structures and expressions you’ve learnt
You and your friend are at a Chinese restaurant.Practice ordering/getting a meal.One acts as a waiter or waitress and the other,a diner. Test 5 1.Reading aloud.(1 minute) Directions:Read aloud the following short passage.Pay attention to your pronunciation and intonation while reading. All this is being done in the name of "security",that is what we tell ourselves. We are fearful,and so we devise ways to lock fear out,and that,we decide,is what security means.But no;with all this "security,we are perhaps the most insecure nation in the history of civilized man.What better word to describe the way in which we have been forced to live?What sadder reflection on all that we have become in this new and puzzling time? 2.Restating.(4 minutes) Directions:You are going to hear a short passage about the expression,'money talks'twice.Please restate what you've heard and then answer the following question. How do you view the saying“money talks”? Test 5 band 2.mp3 Money talks 3.Communicative Function:talking about one's occupation giving suggestions (2 minutes) Directions:Make a conversation with your partner according to the given situation.Use where appropriate the structures and expressions you've learnt. There are two job alternatives for you to choose from.One job can offer 6,000
You and your friend are at a Chinese restaurant. Practice ordering / getting a meal. One acts as a waiter or waitress and the other, a diner. Test 5 1. Reading aloud. (1 minute) Directions: Read aloud the following short passage. Pay attention to your pronunciation and intonation while reading. All this is being done in the name of “security”, that is what we tell ourselves. We are fearful, and so we devise ways to lock fear out, and that, we decide, is what security means. But no; with all this “security,” we are perhaps the most insecure nation in the history of civilized man. What better word to describe the way in which we have been forced to live? What sadder reflection on all that we have become in this new and puzzling time? 2. Restating. (4 minutes) Directions: You are going to hear a short passage about the expression, ‘money talks’ twice. Please restate what you’ve heard and then answer the following question. How do you view the saying “money talks”? Test 5 band 2.mp3 Money talks 3. Communicative Function: talking about one’s occupation & giving suggestions (2 minutes) Directions: Make a conversation with your partner according to the given situation. Use where appropriate the structures and expressions you’ve learnt. There are two job alternatives for you to choose from. One job can offer $ 6,000
a month plus benefits,but it's dull.The other is a job of $1,000 a month,but you are very interested in it.Talk with your friends about it and ask for some advice
a month plus benefits, but it’s dull. The other is a job of $1,000 a month, but you are very interested in it. Talk with your friends about it and ask for some advice