大学英语口语考试试题.doc

Oral Test 1(Band 3)I. Please read the following passage: I suspect not everyone who loves the country would be happy living the way we do. It takes a couple of special qualities. One is a tolerance for solitude. Because we are so busy and on such a tight budget, we dont entertain much. During the growing season there is no time for socializing anyway. Jim and Emily are involved in school activities, but they too spend most of their time at home.The other requirement is energy a lot of it. The way to make self-sufficiency work on a small scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and other expensive laborsaving devices. Instead, you do the work yourself. II. Please retell the text with help of the pictures below:2. self-reliant, satisfying1. write, live on the farm3. winter, tough6. energy, tolerance for solitude5. low income, standard of living, entertainment4. write, various storiesOral Test 2(Band 3)I. Please read the following passage: How much longer well have enough energy to stay on here is anybodys guess perhaps for quite a while, perhaps not. When the time comes, well leave with a feeling of sorrow but also with a sense of pride at what weve been able to accomplish. We should make a fair profit on the sale of the place, too. Weve invested about $35,000 of our own money in it, and we could just about double that if we sold today. But this is not a good time to sell. Once economic conditions improve, however, demand for farms like ours should be strong again.II. Please retell the text with help of the pictures below:2. self-reliant, satisfying1. write, live on the farm3. winter, tough6. energy, tolerance for solitude5. low income, standard of living, entertainment4. write, various storiesOral Test 3(Band 3)I. Please read the following passage: Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women who together forged the Underground Railroad, a secret web of escape routes and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves from the American South. Between 1820 and 1860, as many as 100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom.In October 2000, President Clinton authorized $16 million for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to honor this first great civil-rights struggle in the U. S. The center is scheduled to open in 2004 in Cincinnati. And its about time. For the heroes of the Underground Railroad remain too little remembered, their exploits still largely unsung.II. Please retell the text with help of the pictures below:1. small two-story house, guide, speak proudly of, Josiah Henson, freedom2. Clinton, authorize, honor, civil-rights struggle3. John Parker, hear, knock, recognize, escaped slaves4. boat, escaping slaves, room for all but two, helpless, close in around, leave behind5. passengers, Levi Coffin, transport, runaway slaves, disguise6. Josiah Henson, throw oneself on the ground, pass for, freeOral Test 4(Band 3)I. Please read the following passage: While black conductors were often motivated by their own painful experiences, whites were commonly driven by religious convictions. Levi Coffin, a Quaker raised in North Carolina, explained, “The Bible, in bidding us to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, said nothing about color.”In the 1820s Coffin moved west to Newport (now Fountain City), Indiana, where he opened a store. Word spread that fleeing slaves could always find refuge at the Coffin home. At times he sheltered as many as 17 fugitives at once, and he kept a team and wagon ready to convey them on the next leg of their journey. II. Please retell the text with help of the pictures below:1. small two-story house, guide, speak proudly of, Josiah Henson, freedom2. Clinton, authorize, honor, civil-rights struggle3. John Parker, hear, knock, recognize, escaped slaves4. boat, escaping slaves, room for all but two, helpless, close in around, leave behind5. passengers, Levi Coffin, transport, runaway slaves, disguise6. Josiah Henson, throw oneself on the ground, pass for, freeOral Test 5(Band 3)I. Please read the following passage: Suburbs and country areas are, in many ways, even more vulnerable than well-patroled urban streets. Statistics show the crime rate rising more dramatically in those allegedly tranquil areas than in cities. At any rate, the era of leaving the front door on the latch is over. It has been replaced by dead-bolt locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and trip wires hooked up to a police station or private guard firm. Many suburban families have sliding glass doors on their patios, with steel bars elegantly built in so no one can pry the doors open.II. Please retell the text with help of the pictures below:1. custom, on the latch, rural areas, cities2. new symbol, advertisement, a childs bicycle, padlock, attach to4. look back on, unseen horrors, prisoners of oneself3. company, access card, allowOral Test 6(Band 3)I. Please read the following passage: And it has taken over. If you work for a medium-to-large-size company, chances are that you dont just wander in and out of work. You probably carry some kind of access card, electronic or otherwise, that allows you in and out of your place of work. Maybe the security guard at the front desk knows your face and will wave you in most days, but the fact remains that the business you work for feels threatened enough to keep outsiders away via these “keys.”It wasnt always like this. Even a decade ago, most private businesses had a policy of free access. It simply didnt occur to managers that the proper thing to do was to distrust people.II. Please retell the text with help of the pictures below:1. custom, on the latch, rural areas, cities2. new symbol, advertisement, a childs bicycle, padlock, attach to4. look back on, unseen horrors, prisoners of oneself3. company, access card, allowOral Test 7 (Band 3)I. Please read the following passage: For example: the photoelectric effect. This was a puzzle in the early 1900s. When light hits a metal, like zinc, electrons fly off. This can happen only if light comes in little packets concentrated enough to knock an electron loose. A spread-out wave wouldnt do the photoelectric trick. The solution seems simple light is particulate. Indeed, this is the solution Einstein proposed in 1905 and won the Nobel Prize for in 1921. Other physicists like Max Planck (working on a related problem: blackbody radiation), more senior and experienced than Einstein, were closing in on the answer, but Einstein got there first. Why? II. Please retell the text with help of the pictures below: 1. Young, work, family, 2. in his spare time, 3. doubting and questioning,pressure and responsibility E=mc predict, never get anywhere 4. light, a wave, a particle 5. powers of concentration, 6. Einsteins brainbaffled Einstein the background noise a trifle smaller Oral Test 8 (Band 3)I. Please read the following passage: Einstein was clearly intelligent, but not outlandishly more so than his peers. “I have no special talents,” he claimed, “I am only passionately curious.” And again: “The contrast between the popular assessment of my powers . and the reality is simply grotesque.” Einstein credited his discoveries to imagination and endless questioning more so than orthodox intelligence.Later in life, it should be remembered, he struggled mightily to produce a unified field theory, combining gravity with other forces of nature. He failed. Einsteins brainpower was not limitless. III. Please retell the text with help of the pictures below: 1. Young, work, family, 2. in his spare time, 3. doubting and questioning,pressure and responsibility E=mc predict, never get anywhere 4. light, a wave, a particle 5. powers of concentration, 6. Einsteins brainbaffled Einstein the background noise a trifle smaller Oral Test 9(Band 3)I. Please read the following passage: Sitting at a table with writing paper and memories of things each had done, I tried composing genuine statements of heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to my dad, Simon A. Haley, a professor at the old Agricultural Mechanical Normal College in Pine Bluff, Arkansas; to my grandma, Cynthia Palmer, back in our little hometown of Henning, Tennessee; and to the Rev. Lonual Nelson, my grammar school principal, retired and living in Ripley, six miles north of Henning.The texts of my letters began something like, “Here, this Thanksgiving at sea, I find my thoughts upon how much you have done for me, but I have never stopped and said to you how much I feel the need to thank you.” II. Please retell the text with help of the pictures below:2. reverse, Thanksgiving3. father, love of books1. big meal, afterdeck4. Nelson, prayers5. good cooking, share, forgiving, considerate6. responses, astonished, humbledon the afterdeckOral Test 10 (Band 3)I. Please read the following passage: Now, approaching another Thanksgiving, I have asked myself what will I wish for all who are reading this, for our nation, indeed for our whole world since, quoting a good and wise friend of mine, “In the end we are mightily and merely people, each with similar needs.” First, I wish for us, of course, the simple common sense to achieve world peace, that being paramount for the very survival of our kind.And there is something else I wish so strongly that I have had this line printed across the bottom of all my stationery: “Find the good and praise it.”II. Please retell the text with help of the pictures below:2. reverse, Thanksgiving3. father, love of books1. big meal, afterdeck4. Nelson, prayers5. good cooking, share, forgiving, considerate6. responses, astonished, humbledon the afterdeckOral Test 11 (Band 3)I. Please read the following passage: At the top of a three story brick building, Sue and Johnsy had their studio. “Johnsy” was familiar for Joanna. One of the girls was from Maine; the other from California. They had met in an Eighth Street restaurant, and found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so much in tune that the joint studio resulted. That was in May. In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the district, touching one here and there with his icy fingers. Johnsy was among his victims. She lay, scarcely moving on her bed, looking through the small window at the blank side of the next brick house.II. Please retell the text with help of the pictures below:1. joint studio, pneumonia 2. count, old ivy vine 3. go with the last leaf4. fancy, Behrman 5. fierce wind, stand out 6. paint, masterpieceOral Test 12 (Band 3)I. Please read the following passage: She found Behrman smelling strongly of gin in his dimly lighted studio below. In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that had been waiting there for twenty-five years to receive the first line of the masterpiece. She told him of Johnsys fancy, and how she feared she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, when her slight hold upon the world grew weaker. Old Behrman, with his red eyes, plainly streaming, shouted his contempt for such foolish imaginings. “What!” he cried. “Are there people in the world foolish enough to die because leafs drop off from a vine? I have never heard of such a thing. Why do you allow such silly ideas to come into that head of hers? II. Please retell the text with help of the pictures below:1. joint studio, pneumonia 2. count, old ivy vine 3. go with the last leaf4. fancy, Behrman 5. fierce wind, stand out 6. paint, masterpieceOral Test 13(Band 3)I. Please read the following passage: His face reveals nothing. In his heart, though, he knows he should have been like these kids, like everyone on this bus. Hes not angry. But he knows. His mother explained how the delivery had been difficult, how the doctor had used an instrument that crushed a section of his brain and caused cerebral palsy, a disorder of the nervous system that affects his speech, hands and walk.Porter came to Portland when he was 13 after his father, a salesman, was transferred here. He attended a school for the disabled and then Lincoln High School, where he was placed in a class for slow kids.II. Please retell the text with help of the pictures below:1. bus, teenagers, briefcase 2. not angry, difficult delivery, school 3. mothers encouragement, apply for job, turn down, door-to-door salesman4. shoeshine stand 5. door-to-door selling 6. back home, not feel sorry Oral Test 14 (Band 3)I. Please read the following passage: He takes the first unsteady steps on a journey to Portlands streets, the battlefield where he fights alone for his independence and dignity. Hes a door-to-door salesman. Sixty-three years old. And his enemies - a crippled body that betrays him and a changing world that no longer needs him - are gaining on him.With trembling hands he assembles his weapons: dark slacks, blue shirt and matching jacket, brown tie, tan raincoat and hat. Image, he believes, is everything.He stops in the entryway, picks up his briefcase and steps outside. A fall wind has kicked up. The weatherman was right. He pulls his raincoat tighter.II. Please retell the text with help of the pictures below:1. bus, teenagers, briefcase 2. not angry, difficult delivery, school 3. mothers encouragement, apply for job, turn down, door-to-door salesman4. shoeshine stand 5. door-to-door selling 6. back home, not feel sorry Oral Test 15 (Band 3)I. Please read the following passage: When I looked down and saw that cloned blastocyst, it brought tears to my eyes. I had done this for my mother, and I