口语考试常见问题

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1.What exciting food did you have at Spring Festival? Describe the food in a persuasive way.

I recommend spiced beef. Different from beefsteak in Western countries, it is braised with fragrant spice for hours and cut into small slices. It tastes soft with elastic texture. It doesn’t have strong taste itself so you need to eat it with spicy and flavourful sauce. If you have one spice, you can’t help having the second one until you eat them completely.

2.What food are able to cook at home? Describe briefly how you cook it and some of the

health advantages of your food.

I can cook tofu at home. The way I cook tofu is very simple. First, I add some oil into wok and heat it with pepper and ginger. Then I cut tofu into cubes, prepare some vegetables such as tomato, transfer them to wok and cook them together. If needed, I will add some kinds of spices including salt an d soy. The tofu I cook may not be very delicious because I’m not a professional cook. But tofu surely has many health advantages. For example, it can offer protein and prevent diabetes. Some surveys indicate it can replace meat. So if you want to have meat but don’t like fat, tofu is a good displacement.

二、

(1)5 different techniques used by advertisements:

Repeat, sexy voice, background music, rhetorical questions, contrast and speaking loudly.

(2)How would you emphasize the good aspect of a product?

I will find out who are potential consumers of the product and what they really need at first. Then I will try to express how the good aspect of the product meets their needs. What change will be brought to their life if they buy our product. For instance……

(3)What’s the rhetorical question and how dose it help sell a product.

It’s a special sentence style which hides the only answer in the question. It looks like an answer, but its answer is clear. As for advertisements, It is a powerful tool to emphasize the product I want to recommend or a cue to draw spectators’attention. Don’t you think our product is a better choice? Don’t you see the advantage? Why don’t you take action?

(4)What’s the meaning of the world “Nostalgia[nɒ'stældʒə]”? How does it draw peop le in to an advertisement?

Remember past times or old acquaintances with kindly thoughts. The concept can be used in a tourism Advertising. We can assume that in our advertisement Xi’an is someone’s home so that its places of interest can be listed by his remembrance of hometown. It is also applied to car advertising. Though stating the long history of a car company, the advertisement informs spectators that its client has enough experience and is reliable.

三、

3 different techniques of speaking persuasively in a debate.

(1)Body language: If I just stand here without any action while speaking, spectators must think I am stiff and dull. In th is case, no one will pay attention to what I am saying although it’s ver y reasonable. So we need to add body languages to our debate. Body language can draw more attention and emphasize my view point.

(2)Expression: Speaking with expression in a debate can express my emotion clearly. Various expressions means I am fully confident about what I say ……

(3)Rhetorial question: It aims to highlight what I want to express. Sometimes you can use rhetorical questions to force the other party of the debate to admit something. Can you deny the