英语口语考试大纲话题详解

英语口语考试大纲话题详解1．节假日Holidays and festivals1.1学生可选择的陈述为：The Mid-Autumn dayThe Mid-Autumn Festival, on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, we can observe the biggest and brightest full moon of the year, the harvest moon.One legend about the Moon Festival concerns expert architect Hou Yih, who built a palace of jade for the Goddess of the western heaven. In reward, she gave Hou Yih a pill with the elixir of immortality, warning him not to take it until he had fulfilled certain conditions. Hou Yih's ever-curious wife, Chang O, found the pill and promptly swallowed it. As punishment, she was banished to the moon where, according to tradition, her beauty is at its most radiant on the day of the Moon Festival.The Festival is a public holiday marked by family reunions, moon gazing, and the eating of moon cakes-round pastries stuffed with red bean paste and an egg yolk, or fruit and preserves.Dragon Boat FestivalBoat races during the Dragon Boat Festival commemorate the attempt to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Y uan, who drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Unable to save him, the people threw bamboo stuffed with cooked rice into the water so that the fish would eat the rice rather than the body of their hero. This evolved into the present custom of eating zongzi, rice dumplings filled with ham or bean paste and wrapped in bamboo leaves.Since antiquity the Chinese have believed that the fifth lunar month is a pestilential, danger-fraught period. Sanitation is emphasized, medicines are added to food, aromatic branches are hung above doors, and beautifully embroidered protective amulets or sachets containing spices or medicines are fastened to the clothing of children.Large crowds attend the festive boat races in Taipei, Taiwan, and Kaohsiung(高雄). Teams from all over the world compete in the races as excited observers cheer form the riverbanks.Spring festivalSpring Festival is the most important festival in China .It’s to celebrate the lunar calendar ‘s new year .In the evening before the Spring Festival ,families get together and have a big meal .In many places people like to set off firecrackers .Dumplings are the most traditional food .Children like the festival very much ,because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes .They can also get some money from their parents. This money is given to children for good luck . People putNew Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune.The Spring Festival lasts about 15 days long .People visit relatives and friends with the words “Have all your wishes”. People enjoy the Spring Festival, during this time they can have a good rest.National Day HolidayNational Day is coming, and we can have a seven-day. My families are going to Hainan. It's a good seaside city. We are staying there for a week. We are going to the beach and going swimming in the sea. We’re visiting Tanya Haijiao, WanquanRiver and many other beautiful places. I think we'll have a good time there.I went to my cousin's house on the first day of the holidays and got a piece of good news that his wife was pregnant; She said she's worrying about getting fat, but on her face there was a unconceivable pleasure of conceiving a baby. My cousin told me that he'll educate his child in a severe way, with a future father's maturity(成熟). I’m happy for them.Yesterday, our research school's soccer team had a match with the graduate students from the department of international business. It was almost a close game in the first half,but we seemed lacking of vigor in the second half, so, we lost the game.Half of the National Day holidays have passed by...life still goes with good and bad times.考官可能问到的问题为：What’s your favorite Chinese festival? Why?What do you do on that day? Who often spend this festival with you?Which festival do you think is most important one in china? Why?Tell me the stories of Spring Festival.Do you know anything about Halloween? When is it?What do you often do on summer vacation or winter holidays？Do you like XXX holiday/vacation? Where are you going to go next XXX?Where do you usually go on summer/winter holidays？Who did you go with？How did you think of the trip?What's the difference on shopping between two places？2. 购物shopping2.1 学生可能做的陈述为：A Shopping Center in the NeighborhoodLarge shopping centers are very convenient because we can find almost everything we need there. They are also good places to spend free time because they usually offer some form of entertainment such as movie theaters. However, large shopping centers can also bring somedisadvantages, and for this reason I would oppose the building of one in my neighborhood.One disadvantage of having a large shopping center in the neighborhood would be a great increase in traffic. More cars would not only bring traffic congestion, but also noise and parking problems. Another disadvantage is that a large shopping center requires a lot of space. If build one in my neighborhood, some open space would have to be sacrificed. We might no longer have room for a park or sports ground. And finally, if there were a shopping center in the neighborhood, people might visit it every day. They would no doubt spend too much money and ignore other ways of spending their leisure time.Due to the above disadvantages, I would oppose any plan to build a large shopping center in my neighborhood. Although I enjoy visiting shopping centers on occasion, I don’t need to go very often. I would rather spend some time traveling to one than live next door to one. My neighborhood is a peaceful and quiet place and I hope it will stay that way.Online shoppingWith the development of the Internet and the popularization of computers, shopping on the Internet has become a commonplace in our life. Here consumers can buy almost everything they need.Shopping on the Internet has a lot of advantages, of which the most important is perhaps its convenience. People don't have to waste a lot of their energy and precious time to go from one shop to another to choose the commodities they like. This is especially desirable to the old, the sick and the busy people who cannot go to the shops in person. The goods come in all shapes, sizes and colors on the Internet. All they need to do is to sit in front of their computers and click the mousses. The commodities they order will be delivered to them promptly.However, shopping on the Internet also has its disadvantages. The first disadvantage is that the consumers can't see the goods or try them on personally. Sometimes, the real goods may not be the same as what they have seen on the computer. The second disadvantage is that some shops on the Internet are not registered. They will never deliver anything to you after they get the money from you. Once cheated, you will find that you have nowhere to go to complain.Yaxiu （雅秀）marketYaxiu market ,also known as Ya show market, is one of the best silk and cloths markets in Beijing .This place has lots of similar items like Silk Market, but the price costs cheaper than the Silk Market. It is located at the west side of Sanlitun（三里屯）Bar Street and adjacent to the second embassy area. its main business scope covers a wide range of foreign trade clothing, accessories, traditional handicrafts, snacks and cuisines, as well as recreation and entertainment. Do not worry, they can speak good English, and they can describe the items clearly and let you buy it finally.2.2考官可能问道的问题：1．How often do you go shopping?SAMPLE ANSWERS①I often go shopping once a week, but I go together with my mother or friends and buy all kinds of daily things, such as washing things, clothes, yoghurt and so on．②I usually do the shopping two or three times a week, because my home is near the shop, I will go there at all times when I need. I am a girl who doesn’t often meat, so I often go to buy fresh fruits or vegetables.③I do not go to shops or supermarkets, because I am very busy, my mother or father helps me to buy the things that I need.2．Where do you usually do the shopping?SAMPLE ANSWERS①I usually do the shopping in some retail stores, for some things in those shops are much cheaper than those in big supermarkets, and some salesmen or saleswomen are very, very friendly.②I like doing my shopping in supermarkets or departments, because in my opinion, the kinds of the things there are the most, and the variety of the things is very complete.③Frankly speaking，at times I go to do my shop with my friends in all kinds of stores or shops, containing different variety of the things that I need.3、Do you always look for the lowest(cheapest) price when you shop? Why?SAMPLE ANSWERS：①I like bargain（砍价）very much because I am still a student and I don’t have much money.I want to save every penny. A penny saved is a penny earned, you know.②I don’t like bargains because most bargains are of poor quality. “The cheap are not good”, as the Chinese saying goes.4．Are there any other English words for the man or woman who sells things in a shop? SAMPLE ANSWERS①Yes. Some people call them “sales assistant”. In a common shop, there are many department managers and in department sale, of course there is a sales-manager, so they are called as “salesassistant”.②Yes. Sometimes those people are called by others as a clerk; I think this saying is not much. This saying is according to expert in sales.③Yes. Ordinarily speaking, people regard the man or woman who sells things in a shop or store asa salesman or saleswoman. In Chinese, they just are “销售人员”。