大学英语(一)口语考试题

2015—2016学年第一学期大学英语(一)口语考试

（海南师范大学2015级普通本科及专升本）

Unit 1

Suddenly I wanted to write about that, about the warmth and good feeling of it, but I wanted to put it down simply for my own joy, not for Mr. Fleagle. It was a moment I wanted to recapture and hold for myself. I wanted to relive the pleasure of that evening. To write it as I wanted, however, would violate all the rules of formal composition I'd learned in school, and Mr. Fleagle would surely give it a failing grade. Never mind. I would write something else for Mr. Fleagle after I had written this thing for myself. When I finished it the night was half gone and there was no time left to compose a proper, respectable essay for Mr. Fleagle.

Unit 2

“This isn‟t family,” he replied. “Although,” he went on, “come to think of it, it might just as well have been family. Old Ed was my oldest friend. In fact, we used to call each other …Old Friend‟—when we‟d meet, that is. I'm not much of a hand at writing.”

“I don‟t think any of us keep up our correspondence too well,” I said. “I know I don‟t. But I take it he‟s someone you‟ve known quite a while.”

“All my life, practically. We were kids together, so we go way back.”

“Went to school together?”

“All the way through high school. We were in the same class, in fa ct, through both grade and high school.”

“There are not too many people who‟ve had such a long friendship,” I said.

Unit 3

Whether we like it or not, the world we live in has changed a great deal in the last hundred years, and it is likely to change even more in the next hundred. Some people would like to stop these changes and go back to what they see as a purer and simpler age. But as history shows, the past was not that wonderful. It was not so bad for a privileged minority, though even they had to do without modern medicine, and childbirth was highly risky for women. But for the vast majority of the population, life was nasty, brutish, and short.

Anyway, even if one wanted to, one couldn‟t put the clock back to an earlier age.

Unit 4

After he passed away, I thought more and more about Tony's career. He grew in stature in my mind. In the end, I think he stood as tall, and as proud, as the greatest American industrialists.

They had all reached their success by the same route and by the same values and principles: vision, determination, self-control, optimism, self-respect and, above all, integrity.

Tony did not begin on the bottom rung of the ladder. He began in the basement. Tony's affairs were tiny; the greatest industrialists‟ affairs were giant. But, after all, the balance sheets were exactly the same. The only difference was where you put the decimal point.

Tony Trivisonno came to America seeking the American Dream. But he didn't find it—he created it for himself.