2013级大学英语(三)口语考试题

2013级口语考试题目Answer the following question within 3 minutes.1. Should people improve their appearance through plastic surgery?Some suggested ideas:(1) Love for beauty is inborn and natural.(2) Some jobs require good appearance. The public expects people at certain jobs to have a good appearance.(3) By improving one’s appearance, one may extend the period of one’s career.(4) Better looks may give people more confidence.2.Many college students choose to take part-time jobs in their spare time. What do you think may be the advantages of it?Taking part-time jobs may have at least three benefits for college students in my eye.First and foremost, students can promote their study through part-time jobs. For instance, if a law student finds a part-time job in a law firm, his practice will enable him to better understand what he has learned from books. What’s more, the part-time job can offer him opportunities to go beyond what has been taught in class, and he will learn somethingthat doesn’t exist in books but in practice.Moreover, students can accumulate work experience through part-time jobs, which will benefit their future job-hunting. Part-time jobs act as warm-up exercises for students to take full-time jobs after graduation and help them to prepare for future careers. In addition, graduate students lacking in practical work experience are often disfavored in job-hunting markets.Last but not the least, part-time jobs can partly relieve students’ financial burden, especially those who are from poor families.3.Students spend a lot of time watching all kinds of TV programs during their holidays, ranging from TV series to Talent Show. But it may he harmful if we watch TV too much. Could you give some reasons?The most important reason why watching TV is bad is that it influences how much family members communicate. Parents, grandparents, and other family members have a lot of wisdom to share. This wisdom, however, is often ignored by young people who watch TV.Furthermore, it reduces children’s s tudy time.Finally, TV programs can be a bad influence. Some shows include inappropriate language and too much violence. Many researchers say children do repeat what they see on TV.4.Please describe what kink of people you expect your dream lover to be.He or she should be a loving and caring individual. Not only does he or she love her family, but he or she is warm-hearted to help those around or even someone who they don’t know.He or she should be loyal to their nation, their family and their career. Hard-working is an indispensable quality.He or she is supposed to know romance, tolerance and humor.If he is a handsome or she is a beauty, that would be better. Someone who is good at cooking is always welcome.5.What are the pros and cons of exercises? / What are the advantages and disadvantages of exercises?Pros of exercises:1) It improves appearance. Through exercise, you can get a nice figure.2) It strengthens the heart.3) It can improve your health.4) It can enhance your mood and reduce depression and anxiety.Cons of exercises:1) It may affect one’s personal life. Some people are so obsessed withexercise that they give little time and attention to other aspects of their personal lives.2) If we do exercise in a wrong way, it can actually harm our body. Some work out hard and pull their muscles; some even hurt a joint or break a bone.6.Many college students and high school students choose to study abroad after their graduation. What is your view of studying abroad? The students who choose to study abroad believe that overseas study will be very rewarding. They think they will learn important skills, such as a foreign language, art, or technology. And they also think it will allow them to meet people with different thoughts. These new thoughts, the students believe, will broaden their minds and help build their future careers.On the other hand, some reasons can account for why most students refuse to study abroad.First, studying abroad is costly. Students may pay up to three or four times more than they would if they study at a local university. This expense often causes a heavy burden to ordinary families.Second, studying abroad means they have to leave their friends and family behind. Without the support of family and friends, students suffermany difficulties.Third, it often brings about the experience of astounding culture shock. Some students can’t adapt well to the new environment and suffer from traumatic stress.7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of public transportation?Disadvantages of public transportation may be listed as follows:1) It is not so comfortable. The bus and the metro are often crowded, especially in rush hours.2) It is time-consuming. It has to stop from time to time to pick up passengers. Once you miss a bus, you may have to wait for quite a long time for next one.3) It sometimes can be dangerous. The bus and the metro are usually overloaded in rush hours; therefore, it has potential risks.8.What qualities do you think great people should have?To start off, I think they should have courage. Brave people, like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi, faced threats and violence. They were both killed as a result of the struggles they undertook. Theyknew that they could be killed, but this didn’t concern them very much. They didn’t back down. Neither do great people today.Next, there is commitment. Great people are serious about their work. They focus on it, and they don’t allow themselves to become distracted. Finally, they have vision. They foresee important needs. For example, Mr. Deng Xiaoping has foreseen the need for China to reform and open to the outside world after the Cultural Revolution.9.Should one help his or her friend do something illegal? What are the limits of friendship?Friendship is an important topic that requires serious thought. Definitely, there are some limits on what we should do for our friends. We should not help our friends to do something illegal. A friend, instead, is someone who would encourage a person to act lawfully. By doing so, we are keeping our friends out of trouble. If we accompany our friends in a wrong-doing, we hurt ourselves. Helping someone do something illegal does not sound like real friendship at all.10.How should we look at fame and what should we do in the face of fame?First, there is nothing wrong with fame. Fame is a symbol of success inone’s career. When one has achieved it, fame shows that a person has done well. It can even encourage people to work harder, to do even better work. Therefore, we should have a positive attitude towards fame— not making it a burden, but avoiding the corruption that can occur because of it. After becoming famous, we should continue do well. Whether it is in the sciences or in the arts, accomplishment and selfless devotion to work should continue.11.Does hard work count?/ Is hard work important in one’s pursuit of success?Yes, it is essential in the pursuit of success. In order for to a person to achieve success, he must keep going and must not quit. This is true regardless of what the activity is. Whether a person is digging a well or learning a language makes no difference.12.Can a person rely on the welfare system for everything? Why? No, he surely can’t rely on the welfare system for everything. It can help a person with some financial problems. Since a disabled person might not be able to work, the government can help give money to live. Still, money is not the only thing that a person needs in order to live. A person needs things for his soul—excitement, strength, adventure and so on. Everyone needs love, too. And a disabled person is not different. He needs thesethings and he must get them the same way that everyone else does. He must get them on his own.13. We have entered E-times. The globe is linked by the Internet. But people have different ideas on the Internet. What’s your view? Reasons for the Internet:1) It is cheap. People are able to communicate around the world for almost no cost. It would be very expensive by other methods.2) It provides a lot of useful information.3) It allows open communication. We can get to every corner of the world and communicate with millions of Internet users.4) It encourages people to meet one another.14.Should we ignore our friends and family for the sake of our own interests?Our friends and family must come before our own interests. We must love them whole-heartedly. We must find out their needs and then work to satisfy those needs. By putting friends and family members before our own interests, we can have the best possible lives. If nothing except our own interests occurs in our minds, we will lose our souls. Even if we may achieve our goals, we will lose our friends and family.15. China has declared a war on corruption with a focus on corrupt government officials. Is it possible for China to end corruption? 16. IQ has been used for years to measure people. However, people start to be keen on EQ these days. What’s your view on IQ and EQ?predicting success. IQ is more of an academic measure. It may show you how well a person is able to figure out the answer to a math problem or how quickly one is able to remember and recall information. These abilities are certainly helpful in life, but they are clearly not the most helpful. The most successful people are those who are able to keep calm in the face of challenge. A person with high IQ is able to do so. And he is able to do other valuable things as well. For instance, he is able to recover after having faced setbacks. He is also more flexible. A person who can be calm and communicate well is more valuable than ever before.17.Is money the most important thing in your life? If not, what is it? No, money is not the most important thing in my life. I think the most important thing in life is love. First, everything is born of love. When a child is born, his parents give him or her lots of love in creating a healthyenvironment for him or her. Secondly, what society needs is also love, if there is no love among members in society, it will become listless apathy. Third, though money can buy something, it can not give or buy love. Love yourself and you get respect from others. Give your love and you create harmonious surroundings for the society. Finally, everyone knows that friendshi p is built on love instead of money. Money can’t support ever-lasting friendship.18. What makes you feel stressed? How to deal with it?Yeah，there are so many things that may make us feel stressed. For example, when I’m in a hurry for tests, I may feel stressed, as there are so much work I should do and I have no time to have a break. The feelings make me think that everything is disgusting.So, how to deal with it? I will say it’s easy. As everyone knows that music is the best cure in the world, especially for bad mood. Sometimes, when I feel stressed, I may listen to music or go and play basketball. It’s a good way for me to get relaxed and to forget some misfortune or disgusting things. After that, I become energetic and active again.19.Should the use of disposable plastic bags be banned？Give your reasons.I think the use of disposable of plastic bags should be banned. A plastic bag contains 16 elements of poisons and lots of bacteria and carcinogen. It is harmful to human body, and it leads to serious environmental pollution. Furthermore, it will take two hundred years to get rotten, without being digested during the time. Plastic bags endanger animals and human beings as well. So we should try to regulate policies to ban the use of plastic bags and cleanse them out of our life completely. Only in this way can we reconstruct a healthy society for us and for our decedents.u20.Whom do you turn to for help when you have problems? why? When I have a difficulties and when I think of people to turn to for help, it is my parents I turn to for help. They would always be considerate and come to my support.Sometimes we may feel grown up and no longer need to parents’ help. But when we meet difficulties and come down in the world, we get to know that many people help us on purpose. They help you and want something from you. But we get to know that only our parents can shareendless love to us. Although sometimes we do something wrong and may hurt them, they would not abandon us and help us to solve our problems by doing their best. When I feel sad, going home is my first choice. When I hear the voice of my parents I feel relieved and wanted to embrace them. They are always my back bone. l thank them and love them more than ever.。