英语口语考试话题及材料

The Importance of Self-confidenceConfidence, in a broad sense, comprises self-trust, self-esteem and courage .This d efinition is not sufficient. But it is able to describe the real meaning of it.As we known, self-confidence is accompanied by will, and as a twin, offers hope. Those who do not have a strong will often think themselves unable to carry out any dif ficult tasks, In fact, when our heart is void of self-confidence, every hope is gone,. For instance, according to experts, every year in the entrance examinations of all kinds, fu lly-prepared candidates lose nearly 5％to 10％of the full scores, and consequently me et their fail simply because they underestimate their own abilities, and overestimate the difficulties. As a result, their fear to meet new challenge leads to failure in the examin ation.As you know, whatever you do, there are always two possible results: success and failure. When you fail, you should never lose heart. On the contrary, you must build up your confidence and work harder than before.Set your own goal and trace on it, make a small progress one day, a month later it will be a big difference. People fail not because the task is difficult, but for they give up themselves in the half way.Self-confidence can be improved by building faith in yourself .we all know that what ever you do, you will encounter hardships. The success will come to you if you are co urageous enough to strive for it.What is success?When we are talking about success, mostly the first image comes into our mind is the man with high social status, and a lot of property. Most people believe that is succ ess and all that they do is only for this purpose.What is real success? Different people have different opinions on this question. Is i t fortune success? Is it fame success? Is it high social status success? My answer is not.To be clear about what is success must be the first step to achieving success. To be a football player，scoring on the field is success. To be a soldier, killing the enemy is success. for us, during the exam, getting a high score is success.So far, the best definition I have concluded that Success is achieving something int ended. In other words success is accomplish what you planned to do.As you know, whatever you do, there are always two possible results: success and failure. When you fail, you should never lose heart. On the contrary, you must build up your confidence and work harder than before.Set your own goal and trace on it, make a small progress one day, a month later it will be a big difference. People fail not because the task is difficult, but for they give up themselves in the half way.There is a saying goes like "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going". Action is the key to success, and fail to act is the reason most people will never achieve the success they dream about "so long as you have faith in yourself, work hard and act it, never let anyone tell you, you can't do something".Finally, it is also important for you to get along well with you co-workers, care for each other and help each other. If you follow these principles, you will certainly achiev e remarkable success in the future.My View On Opportunity“Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.”But in real ity, there are still many people who can not catch opportunity and complain that they a re short of opportunity. I really wonder, how different people treat opportunity?Some people always come to the view that opportunity in their life is limited. Take job hunting for example, many young people think that the opportunity for them is so li mited that few of them can succeed in finding a job. They always take it for granted th at they can’t find a job has nothing to do with their ability but opportunity. Consequentl y, whenever they can’t do something well, they blame the opportunity instead of their c apacity. They are always living in a world of complaining the lack of opportunity.Others, on the contrary, strongly believe that opportunity is everywhere as long as you put your heart to seize it. They have the belief that everyone has opportunities in many aspects. So, they always improve themselves in order to seize the opportunity. When they fail, what they think is not the complaint of being given limited opportunity, but their own ability to do things. As a result, they make efforts to improve themselves so as to catch different opportunities. Besides, what they have done is also a good wa y to create other opportunities. So, they think that opportunities are not far away from t hem, if they prepare well, they can seize them anytime.From my point of view, opportunity won’t come to me unless I go to it. So, opport unity won’t wait for you all the time. if you prepared well, you will find that opportunity is always around youWhat is happiness?Happiness is the most precious thing in the world, which can be obtained in differe nt ways.From my point of view, being in a good mood anytime is the first thing for those who want to be happy. There is an old saying going like, "happy is he who is content.I still remember a story. A millionaire tried every means to seek after pleasure and alw ays feel unhappy. But a poor men to whose name not having a thing always feel happ y. Why are they so different? The answer is that the rich man is always thinking how he can gain more while the poor is satisfied with what he owns at hand, such as healt h, freedom, love and so on.Furthermore, love makes great difference to happiness. If you have love in your he art, you will have happiness in your life. Love consists of two parts, one is love others,and the other is to be loved .Lei Feng set a good example for all of us. He served th e people wholeheartedly until the last minute of his life. He regarded serving the peopl e as the happiest thing. There are numbers of similar stories to be found. In addition, being loved by others can also lead you to happiness. Courage from your parents whe n frustrated, care from your lover when ill, help from your friends when in trouble, all o f these will make you the happiest person in the world.The last but not least is to act happily. Putting on a happy face and thinking intere sting things are helpful to trigger happy feelings.So happiness is precious, and it is also easy to get, do you think so?。