大学英语(一)口语考试A卷

2015应、公旅班大学英语（一）口语考试说明与试题

2016-01

时间：第18周听说课上随堂考试

成绩：口语成绩占期末视听说课程总评成绩的20%

要求：A.融入真实情景

B.语音语调自然流畅

C.表情自然，无背诵痕迹

D.情景对话部分不能少于3分钟

形式：1.请各班课代表将所在教学班的分组（两人一组）提前一周(即17周)排序抽签事先做好。考试周所有学生到校，当天没有考试任务的同学须在听力教室进行听力学习，不得缺勤，缺勤的同学按照自行放弃考试处理，口语成绩计为零分，责任自负。

2.考试时每两人一组完成段落朗读和情景对话，段落朗读和情境对话均可提前准备，但具体考题须口语考试时现场随机抽签决定。

备考地点：主楼1919

考试地点：主楼1919

情景对话部分

情景对话1：Planning a Vacation Nearby

Directions: Work in pairs. Suppose you have a week off, and you’re planning to take a trip out of the city. Make a plan and talk about it in terms of:

What sort of places would you like to go to?

What things will you take with you?

What will you do there?

情景对话2：Job Interview

Directions: In your pair, one acts as the interviewer, the other as the interviewee The following items should be covered in your interview:

The necessary personal information;

The qualifications that the interviewee has;

Other Factors to consider when choosing a job.

情景对话3：Suggestions

Student A who wants to lose weight and keep in a good shape goes to consult with his/her doctor. Student B, the doctor, will offer some tips.

段落朗读部分

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Jefferson's courage and idealism were based on knowledge. He probably knew more than any other man of his age. He was an expert in agriculture, archeology, and medicine. He practiced crop rotation and soil conservation a century before these became standard practice, and he invented a plow superior to any other in existence. He influenced architecture throughout America, and he was constantly producing devices for making the tasks of ordinary life easier to perform. Of all Jefferson's many talents, one is central. He was above all a good and tireless writer. His complete works, now being published for the first time, will fill more than fifty volumes. His talent as an author was soon discovered, and when the time came to write the Declaration of Independence at Philadelphia in 1776, the task of writing it was his. Millions have thrilled to his words: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…"

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While I was waiting to enter university, I saw advertised in a local newspaper a teaching post at a school in a suburb of London about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short money and wanting to do something useful, I applied, fearing as I did so, that without a degree and with no experience in teaching my chances of getting the job were slim. However, three days later a letter arrived, asking me to go to Croydon for an interview. It proved an awkward journey: a train to Croydon station; a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter to feel nervous.

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As boy and then as an adult, I never lost my wonder at the personality that was Einstein. He was the only person I kne w who had come to terms with himself and the world around him. He knew what he wanted and he wanted only this: to understand within his limits as a human being the nature of the universe and the logic and simplicity in its

functioning. He knew there were answers beyond his intellectual reach. But this did not frustrate him. He was content to go as far as he could. In the 23 years of our friendship, I never saw him show jealousy, vanity, bitterness, anger, resentment, or personal ambition. He seemed immune to these emotions. He was beyond any pretension. Although he corresponded with many of the world's most important people, his stationery carried only a watermark - W - for Woolworth's.

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School children used to know the story of how Abraham Lincoln walked five miles to return a penny he'd overcharged a customer. It's the kind of story we think of as myth. But in the case of Lincoln, the story is true … unlike the story of George Washington and the cherry tree. Washington's first biographer invented the tale of little George saying to his father, "Icannot tell a lie. I did it with my ax." What is important in both stories, however, is that honesty was seen as an important part of the American character.

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Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellows the warm sunshine of praise. Why - when one word can bring such pleasure? A friend of mine who travels widely always tries to learn a little of the language of any place she visits. She's not much of a linguist, but she does know how to say one word - "beautiful " - in several languages. She can use it to a mother holding her baby, or to lonely salesman fishing out pictures of his