大学英语专业口语考试试题

Please discuss the following topics with your group members.

Directions: You and your group need to prepare for all the following topics. During the exam, you and your group need to choose one of the topics to discuss in about 10 minutes.

1. The single most important problem faced in interpersonal communications is ignorance. Interacting with others is a tricky business. The road is paved with shortcomings,2, roadblocks, and signals misinterpreted by the other side. How you handle yourself in proceedings is of paramount importance. So how do we deal with this dilemma of interpersonal communication?

2．Anger is a fundamental emotion that everyone experiences from time to time. From a very early age, people learn to express anger by copying the angry behavior they see modeled around them, and by expressing angry behavior and seeing what they can get away with.

As our culture has an uneasy relationship with anger expression, many people are brought up to think that it is inappropriate to express anger directly; that it must not be tolerated; that it is always dangerous. Such people learn to distrust anger, to bottle it up and ignore it, to express it only in indirect ways or to use it as a weapon. So, what is your opinion on anger control?

3. Bruce Lee once sa id “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” which implies that we should define us exactly and try to be ourselves. But Deepak Chopra tells us “To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.” So how do you interpret “be yourself”? How can you better yourself?

4. The phrase, “everybody’s doing it,”is very much at the center of the concept of peer pressure. It is a social influence exerted on an individual in order to get that person to act or believe in a similar way as a larger group. Peer pressure exists for all ages. So why is peer pressure so powerful? What is your opinion on peer pressure?

5. Throughout history, there have been clashes as far as cultural identity is concerned. For example, in early America, Caucasians and Africans co-existed in owner-slave relationships where Africans were viewed as uncivilized. World War II involved the Holocaust where Nazi troupes killed over 6 million Jewish people because the Germans felt they were “racially superior.” Both instances involved racial identities, an issue that exists in many communities and nations today. Can you account for the above phenomena in terms of identity theories? Please offer some solutions to prevent similar prejudice and tragedies from happening again.

6. Intercultural competence is emerging as an important competency around the world. In the U.S., intercultural competence is seen as key to global workforce development and foundational to 21st century skills. As a foreign language major, you are more likely to engage in intercultural contacts. Then what is your understanding of intercultural competence? Please explain and illustrate your view points.