英语口语考试题目

1.Why do people get angry/depressed? How to control suchnegative feelings?People feel blue for a variety of reasons. People tend to get angry when treated unfairly. Specifically, we may fly into a rage when we realize we were betrayed by a close friend or tricked by a clerk into buying something unnecessary at a high price. When people treat us with contempt, or deliberately ignore us, we may get annoyed. Also, the sight of injustice often fills us with indignation. For instance, when we see a child being bullied by a group of hoodlums, it makes our blood boil. People feel depressed after failing an exam or losing a job. We feel grief when someone dear to them, for example a close family member, passes away. Suffering from a serious disease with little hope of a complete recovery, one may feel dejected. There seems to be a relationship between depression and bad luck. If your spirits are down and you show it, people might refrain from talking to you.To overcome our anger, we have two options: to fight or to run. In the case of a small offense, it's better to walk away and calm down. It is not necessary to explode at a slight provocation. However, when confronted with a gross injustice or a serious crime, we need to stand up for ourselves and speak our mind. After venting our anger, we may feel better. If we keep negative feelings to ourselves, we will probably feel miserable for a long time and regret not taking action.To cheer yourself up, you can study or work. Your mood might improve if you keep yourself busy and try to achieve goals. And if staying busy doesn't help, you can just wait for the sadness to go away. It is said that time heals all wounds. Finally, you might find solace in realizing. Your situation is not the worst. You can also choose to look at the bright side of things because every cloud has a silver lining.2.What do you know of plastic surgery? Do you thinkbeauty can be bought? Give your reasons.Plastic surgery is way to improve one’s appearance. Such as having a face-lift to change their nose or chin, making their single-fold eyelids double folded, or having their skin tightened to smooth out wrinkles and crow's feet. There are quite a few disadvantages to have plastic surgeries. I have heard of a lot of reports about the side effects of plastic surgeries and surgery accidents. We should not attempt to change our physical appearance by cosmetic means, which may bring unexpected disasters in the future. Treatment of plastic surgery, must have a healthy attitude, not obsessed with them, otherwise the result is always the people who hurt themselvesBeauty can be bought for a short time, but not for life long. Because we can through Plastic surgery to improve our current appearance, on earth we will be old in the end. When we became old, we do n’t beautiful any more. It’s human’s right to search for beauty, human nature, you will be more welcomed and more confident, have good first impression when interview, competitive in job market, certain occupations’ need.3.Can you name some natural disasters? Choose one to talkabout its causes and effects.There are many kinds of natural disasters such as earthquake, flood, drought, forest fire, tsunami, snowstorm, blizzard, hailstorm, hurricane, typhoon, tornado, landslide, and volcanic eruption. They are all horrible and destroyable. Take earthquake for example, earthquake is a sudden change or movement in the Earth's crust, causing a moving and shaking of the ground. It may be caused by earth’s crust’s movement or eruption of volcanoes.Earthquake is a disaster can’t be avoid. An earthquake can destroy a city even a large area. Just like wenchuan earthquake and yushu earthquake, the buildings are ruined and the people are hurt seriously even died, causing unbelievable people and wealth loss. We can through efficient predict to decrease the loss.4.Suppose you were a boss, what kind of employees wouldyou hire? What would you do to make them work efficiently?If I were a boss, I will attach more importance to the candidate's ability. After all, a company's profits come directly from the abilities of the entire staff. Many of the qualities of a good worker such as diligence, teamwork, loyalty to the company, and courtesy to customers are gained through on-the-job training rather than from book knowledge. meanwhile, one's educational background is also important. If one can enroll in a distinguished university and attain a high GPA, it is likely that one already possesses good qualities like industriousness, intelligence, organizational ability, and a strong will -- qualities that are equally useful in the workplace.To make them work efficiently, I will pay them according to their achievement they fetch, their salary will be directly related to their efforts. Always communicating with the employees, care for them/ their life, notice their changes in feeling, etc. in time, appreciate their strengths, get to know their difficulties in work and try to help them with your experience and knowledge, accept their useful/constructive advices/suggestions, have good performance---raise salary, praise them, have poor performance/make mistakes----criticism, punishment, make rules about…, create a relaxed/serious atmosphere, task-oriented, time-oriented, trust and encourage them, build up a fair and free environment for every employee, sometimes add new blood to the company/hire new person to stimulate them, give them special training before they officially start the work.5.Why are some employees fired/laid off/hopping jobs?What do you think are the elements for a successful career?If employees do not observe company or department rules, they are likely to be fired. Any boss will be angry if employees are late for work or use the company phone to talk with friends. A boss dislikes people who do not work hard, gossip a lot or read the newspaper over a cup of tea for hours. Even if one workshard, the boss may not be satisfied if one does not work with high efficiency. After all, company profits come from employee achievements. Even though you've made significant personal contributions to the company, if you do not get along well with your colleagues, you may impede the company's productivity. After all, most jobs require teamwork nowadays. Usually the boss places a high value on employee loyalty. Disloyal employees may sell the company's secrets and ruin it overnight. When the company is in financial difficulty and downsizing, the first to be dismissed will be those who have some of the above-mentioned problems.The elements for a successful career: objective elements—good relationship with boss/ colleagues, good teamwork, the company develop well, good education background, experience, skill, competence; subjective elements--- stick to the goal and work hard on it.6.Describe some superstitions in English–speaking countries.Why do you think people have good luck or bad luck? Give examples to illustrate your point.English-speaking nations have a number of superstitions. For example, many people believe 13 to be an unlucky number, and do not want to live on the 13th floor or in Room 13. They say "knock on wood" or "touch wood" to avoid bad luck. To wish somebody good luck, they may say "I'll cross my fingers for you." Superstitious people avoid walking under a ladder or opening an umbrella in doors. When they see a black cat run across their path, they think it's a bad omen. Some people may hang a horseshoe over their door to ward off bad luck. If they happen to drop a mirror, they worry that they will have seven years' bad luck. To ensure good luck, they may carry a charm of some kind, such as a lucky rabbit's foot!Since the world is complex and mysterious, it is not easy to arrive at a definite conclusion. Some scholars, including a British psychologist, suggest that there exists a correlation between one's attitude to life and one's fate. But more research is needed before we can be sure of such a correlation. Moreover, the cause-and-effect relationship has not been clearly identified, and we are uncertain which causes which. In real life we can find counter examples: Some optimistic people are not very lucky, while some pessimistic people are quite lucky. Perhaps we should try to find out which case is more frequent: optimistic people with good luck or optimistic people with bad luck. Judging from my personal observations, the former is more common. I can even supply the reason: Optimistic people have more self-confidence, which facilitates their success in life. A survey involving many people is required to discover what most people think about this issue.1. Happiness/anger/depressionA: you look depressed. What happened?B: nothing. I’d rather not talk about it. Just don’t ask.A: come on. You shouldn’t keep your feelings to yourself. You need to let off some steam. So, talk to me.B: all right. This morning I went to a shop to buy a digit al camera. I only need an ordinary one. It is enough for my touse in the summer vacation. But they persuaded me t o buy a professional camera, which cost three times as mu ch.A: but you were willing to pay for it. Anyway, it must w ork better.B: you see, I know next to nothing about photography. So they simply tricked me into buying an expensive one.A: no wonder you’re livid with rage. I’d be mad too if I were robbed like that. What are you going to do?B: I already went back to them and asked to exchange it for a cheaper one.A: what did they say? B: oh, they were rude. They insisted that they hadn’t enco uraged me to buy a professional camera, and that I bought it myself.A: sounds like you got a raw deal!B: what’s worse, as I was leaving, I heard them say, “that guy looks broke. He shouldn’t have bought any camera.” When I heard that, I almost hit the roof.A: don’t let it get to you. Better ignore their rude remarks. B: I agree. I did manage to keep my cool.A: well, the best thing you can do is to file a complaint with the Consumer Protection Agency. If they talk to the s hop, maybe they will give you a refund.B: sounds too good to be true.2. Cosmetic surgeryA: What do you think of cosmetic procedures?B: You mean liposuction or botox injection?A: I don’t know exactly what they are. I have just heard of having one’s teeth straightened or have one-fold eyelids become double-folded.B: It’s quite common for people to have such surgeries no w. Cosmetic surgeries are some of the most popular medic al procedures in the country and the popularity is still gro wing.A: Why are so many people interested in such surgeries?B: Everyone seems to want to brighten up his appearance —look younger, be thinner, have a whiter smile or just b e more beautiful so that they stay attractive and be more c ompetitive in the job market.A: By the way, what are liposuction and botox injection?B: They are both cosmetic surgeries. Liposuction is a medi cal operation to remove fat from a part of someone’s body and botox in jection is injecting botox into someone’s face to make the muscles relax and the skin look smoother an d younger.A: It sounds scary to me. Do you like to have a liposucti on?B: No. I have never thought about having such a surgery.I will never try any cosmetic surgeries such as face lifts, n ose jobs, fat injections, laser resurfacing, etc. I am happy with the way I am. Natural beauty from within is the real beauty.A: I can’t agree more. I have never worried about the wri nkles around my eyes. Becoming old is just a law in natur e. No one can change it. Elderly people are beautiful if th eir river of life has been through plains, mountains and jun gle, running its course as it should. There is no need to re sort to any procedures.3. A kind of natural disasterA: Maggie, I’ve just read a fire destroyed much of the for est on Dayu Mountain in Hong Kong the other day.B: I’ve heard that too. The local government sent firefighte rs and even helicopters to try to put out the fire. But I thi nk they shouldn’t have tried.A: You mean, they should have just let the forests burn? How can they stand idly by and watch people’s homes go up in flames?B: Some experts argue that forest fires are a phase in the cycle of nature, and we shouldn’t interfere. Except, of cour se, to save lives.A: It seems wrong to allow fires to burn up good timber. What a waste that would be! You see, the fire-hit area ext ends nearly 4000 square meters.B: But that is nature’s way of cleaning up the debris that collects on the forest floor and creating space for new gro wth.A: That may be true, but it still seems wrong to just let fi res burn. They destroy not only timber, but many rare butt erflies living there. B: Anyway, there have been verdant forests for millions of years without man’s help in combat ing fires.A: You may be correct, but I still think it’s wrong not to put out forest fires. If too many trees are destroyed, the ve ry existence of human beings is threatened.4. Company ManagementA: Hello, Jenny of Mokia Mobile.B: Hello, this is Dick, your mobile phone battery supplier. A: Hi, Dick. Glad to hear from you again, what’s on your mind?B: We’ve produced a new battery that is inexpensive, but powerful. It can last a long time.A: We’ve already got a good selection. What’s so special about your new product?B: Well, could you arrange for me to meet your boss Lind a? Then I’ll go into details.A: OK, when can you come?B: I was hoping to get together with Linda this week, if p ossible. I want to get going on this right away.A: Let me check her tible… Yes, she’s completely free Th ursday.B: Why not meet at about ten in the morning at your offi ce?A: Sounds good. Let me say it again: We’ll look forward to seeing you at ten on Thursday.B: I’m sure it’ll be a rewarding meeting. Thank you. Good bye.A: Bye.[Later.]A: Hello. Is Dick there, please?B: Hello. Dick speaking.A: Hi, Dick, this is Jenny. Something unexpected has come up. I’m afraid we have to postpone the meeting with you on Thursday.B: That’s disappointing. When can we meet?A: Linda has to put the meeting off until sometime on Fri day. Will that suit you?B: I’m afraid I can’t go on Friday. I’ll be flying to anothe r city on business.A: Then could you come after five on Thursday?B: Certainly. Can we make it five thirty then?A: Fiv e thirty’s perfect. Linda will be waiting for you at fi ve thirty on Thursday.B: OK. Great! Thanks! Bye!5. Job-hoppingA: Excuse me, Mr. Atkin, do you have a minute to spare?B: The question suggests something serious, Pamela. What’s up?A: Well, uh… than k you very much for offering me a per manent job. But now I’ve received a notice of admission t o a master’s degree program in my university. I’m afraid I have to leave.B: Oh, what a pity. You did an excellent job here, and ev eryone likes you.A: I really enjoyed working here. But further studies will give me more opportunities to grow professionally.B: Your skills in software development are almost irreplace able here. Would you stay if I promote you to the departm ent head and give you a raise in pay?A: Thank you very much indeed, and I do appreciate the golden opportunity. But I really need to acquire more kno wledge while I’m young. With a Master’s degree in my ha nds, I’ll be more competitive in the future.B: In that case, I won’t keep you, Pamela. I ju st want to tell you that I’m sad you’ll be leaving us. You run this pl ace with clockwork efficiency, you know. We’ll all miss yo u a lot.A: I hope this one-month notice will give you time to hire and train a replacement.B: Thanks for the notice, Pamela. Assistants like you are r are. I guess we’d better start looking as soon as possible.A: With your approval, I’ll post notices today and intervie w applicants for you.B: That would be great. Schedule them in as you see fit. Pamela, without you, things here will be different.A: Thank you for your kind words. If you have any probl ems, please feel free to call me.6. SuperstitionA: Eliza, do you know why people say “keep your fingers crossed” when they want to wish others good luck?B: It sounds a bit of funny. As far as I know, it has a lot to do with an ancient Christian belief.A: Uh, go on. B: In the Christian belief “making the sign of the cross” would keep away evil spirits and bad luck.A: I see. When you think about the cross, the sign of Chr istianity, that belief seems to make some sense.B: That’s true. That’s why children often cross their fingers when they tell a small lie. They want to keep bad luck a way, or to avoid being punished.A: Sounds interesting. So, I’ll cross my fingers for you be fore you take the final examination.B: Thank you.A: But those who don’t understand this superstition might be puzzled.B: With increasing communications among nations, mo re and more people can understand it now.。