2016-中级英语口语考试

2016年二级起点第二学期口语考试题

Task I. picture description

1.the picture descerptioned a discisson between apandadanadog the panda said to the dog bengbeng you shouldnot be too fond of play all the day andyouneedtoacquiresomeskills or you may cantdo nothing but the dogg saidl kllkdfkklfjlklhl

daydream, be too fond of play, acquire some skills, be good at

2.

fox, crow, meat, vanity(虚荣), cheat 3.

goldfish, goldfish bowl, sea, success, give up,

4.

college graduates, look for jobs, ask for pity 5.

summer holiday, pupil, the violin, writing brush, a big schoolbag

6.

the purpose of study, power, money 7.

wealth, civilization, generations, efforts

the new generation, American milk, worship and have blind faith in foreign things

travel, tourist area, be littered with garbage

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stumps of trees, the relic of a forest, a tree, a wall, ticket price

1.Every ethnic group has a way of determining or expressing

membership. Overt factors used to demonstrate or denote

group membership are called ethnic boundary markers.

Ethnic boundary markers are important not only to identify the members to one another, but also to demonstrate identity to and distinctiveness from nonmembers. Because they serve to distinguish members form all other groups, a single boundary marker seldom is sufficient.

2.Luckily, large-scale commercial incidents, while dramatic,

make up only a fraction of the nation’s total food-poisoning cases each year. Most cases arise from one person’s error in

a small setting and affect just a few victims. Some people

have come to accept a yearly bout or two of intestinal illness as inevitable, but in truth, these illnesses can and should be prevented. To prevent them, consumers need to learn how to select, prepare, and store food safely.

3.A wide variety of cultural traits, clothing, house types,

personal adornment, food, technology, economic activities, or general lifestyle may also serve as ethnic boundary marker.

Over the past 100 years, a rapid homogenization of world material culture, food habits, and technology has erased

many of the more overt cultural markers. Today, you do not have to be Mexican to enjoy tacos, Italian to eat pizza, or Japanese to have sushi for lunch. Cultural traits remain, however, the most important, diverse, and complex category of ethnic boundary markers.

4.Such conflict as more common in the modern world than

most of us realize. To understand the magnitude of potential magnitude of this problem, one need only realize that the world is divided into less than 200 countries and between 3,000 and 5,000 distinct ethnic nationalities. As a result, the populations of most countries encompass a number of distinct nationalities. China officially recognizes 56 distinct nationalities. Some estimates are as high as 300 ethic nationalities in Indonesia.

5.The term affluenza combines two words: affluence and

influenza. According to anti-consumer and environmental rights organizations, the high consumption lifestyles of affluence cause people to be less happy even though they are acquiring more “things”. The major negative effect on the