新视野大学英语4口语考试对话

1.the Tail of Fame

A: Good morning.

B: Morning.

A: Congratulations on your winning in the Speech Contest last night. It must be cool to earn a place somewhere.

B: Well, thank you. But it’s not l ike that.

A: Uh?

B: To be honest, I don’t think being popular or admired is awesome. A: Why? Does it mean you don’t care about fame?

B: Kind of. Seeking fame is always a tiring thing, which is just like a dog chasing his own tail, and it’s more like a self-destruction.

A: That sounds reasonable..

B: Yeah, Apparently, many celebrities who have earned their fames may finally get trapped in the so-called glory.

A: Oh, got it. That’s true. When he becomes the focus of the public, one has to struggle to remain or protect his popularity. Then it’s easy to lose himself, for to entertain the audience sometimes must follow their tastes.

B: Exactly. That’s my point.

A: Okay, so here is a choice for you. Reputation or yourself?

B: Well, definitely, just do myself.

A: Wow, cool, I’ll follow you.

2. Longing for a new welfare system

Roles: 2 welfare clients

R1: Oh, gosh. What’s wrong with my wheelchair, I just can’t move it. R2: Let me see, it seems that you’ve lost a screw. Maybe we need call the caseworker.

R1: Well, forget about it.

R2: Why? They should care for us.

R1: Of course it is. But it turns out that they just work for their organization, not for us.

R2: Yeah, I still remember Suzanne’s last visit to my house. She was just like a detective, for she looked into every corner in search of something unreported and asked me to explain every penny.

R1: That’s common thing.

R2: Under this welfare system, we have to lie.

R1: Yeah, it’s just that, if we don’t lie to these caseworkers ,we’ll struggle on the edge of life forever.

R2: Definitely. So I do expect a new welfare system, a real one.

R1: Couldn’t agree with you more.And I hope that new one can care for our disabled people by action not by voice.

3. the telecommunication revolution

A: Wow, your new phone looks gorgeous.

B: Thank you. It’s the newly developed I-phone 5s.

A: Uh, new high technology.

B: Yeah, today the telecommunication technology updates in a minute.

A: As I know, the telecommunication revolution began in the 1990s, and it has brought about big changes in our society.

B: Yes, now we’re in the information age, and we’re enjoying the benefits brought by telecommunication technologies every day. You see, now I can use cell phone, QQ, web-chat and twitter to contact with my friends.

A: Me too. So we have to admit that, telecommunication technologies are offering us various media to communicate and socialize with each other.

B: That’s true. Also it has become a key drive to the international trade and business.

A: It’s hard to imagine what it looked like without the marvelous telecommunication revolution.

B: Then we would have to wait for a long queue to give a call and we would also have to wait for our foreign clients to answer our inquiry by a letter in a week or even longer.

A: That sounds awful.

B: Yeah, better on the information superhighway.

4. Choose to Be Alone on Purpose