人人说英语中级考试材料

人人说英语（中级）Shopping 购物Shopping is a delight for both customers and shop assistants. In big cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, department stores and shopping centers are open most days of the week from 9 am to 9 pm. Some stores and supermarkets stay open even longer. Now, more and more foreign visitors are interested in going shopping at free markets in Beijing. They often buy some Chinese articles, such as paintings, jade carving etc. People can bargain with sellers, this is because the prices of the goods are too high. So if you don’t bargain, you’ll pay more than necessary.Questions1.Where do you usually go shopping? Why?2.What do you think of Beijing’s shopping environment?3.Do you prefer free market or big shopping center? Why?4.Can you introduce some shopping area to me if I want tobuy clothes?5.What should shop assistant do when meeting foreign customers?6.Where do you usually go when you want to buy clothes?7.When you buy clothes, do you value brands or fashion?Transport 交通To welcome the coming Olympic Games and people from all over the world, Beijing has been modernizing its public transportation. Public buses are the cheapest way. The most convenient way to get around the city, however, is by taxi. Taxi drivers in Beijing are always very friendly to their passengers. Some of them are good tourist guides, too. They talk to you when driving, showing you the government buildings, museums, temples and other places of historical interest along the way. Talking to them, you may feel not only the closeness of the city but also the warmth of humanity. Now, to welcome visitors from all over the world, many of the city’s taxi drivers are beginning to learn English. Just imagine, if they could speak good English, how enjoyable it could be for foreign visitors to take their taxi!Questions1.Can you compare different means of transportation in Beijing?2.What do you think of Beijing’s transportation? What advice doyou have to improve it?3.Do you think cars should be limited or encouraged? Why?4.What do you think of Beijing’s taxi driver?5.What can Beijing do about transportation to welcome the 2008Olympic Games?6.What means of transportation do you use most? What do youthink of it? How do you go to school everyday?7.What should we do to those who do not obey traffic rules?8.What are the main reasons for the crowded transportation inBeijing?Health 健康Now, more and more people want to be a doctor. It is because people know the health is the most important in our lifes. One of my friends Mary just be a person. She is twenty years old, and studying to be a doctor. It’s hard but she loves it. Because she believes that after many years of rapid economic development in this country, people are getting better off now. They need to keep fit, to enjoy good health, better medica l care and good medical treatment. She is confident she will finish her study at the medical school with good credits. And when she becomes a smart doctor, she will do good service to the people of the country and to foreign friends coming from around the world.Questions1.How to keep yourself healthy?2.Do you think a good mood is important to one’s health?Why?3.What do you think of Beijing’s medical service?4.Do you think doing physical exercise is good for your health?What exercise do you do?5.Tell me about one of your experience of illness.Study 学习More and more people today begin to understand that study does not end with a school graduation. Education is not just amiddle school diploma or a college degree; it is life itself. Many people are not interested in studying at a college, and they are interesting in other kinds of learning. They may go to a training class of their own field; they may improve their work skill by following television courses; they may even on Internet class. They certainly know that if they know more or learn more, they can get better jobs or earn more money.Now most students try to learn English, because in 2008, the Olympic Games comes and people from all over the world get together in Beijing. By then, if we can speak English well, all the people will have a better communication.Questions1.How to study English well?2.What subjects do you like most? Why?3.Do you have the plan to study aboard? What do you thinkof it?4.Do you think graduation from college means end ofeducation?5.Besides school education, what other forms of education doyou know?6.Do you like school education? What do you think of exams?7.Do you like your major? Why?First Aid 急救Two years ago, I took part in a training session for first aid. First aid means the aid or help that is given to an injured person or a patient first before any other help arrives. The doctors there taught us how to give basic first aid to patients in different cases. We learn how to deal with heart attack, bleeding, breathing difficulties and heat stroke. I really learned a lot from the session.I remembered that it was my day off and I went to the Forbidden city with several friends. There I noticed a woman looking pale and very painful. I came up to her and asked her if she needed any help. She said she had a very serious stomachache. As a foreigner, she couldn’t speak Chinese and didn’t know what to do with it. I helped her out of the Forbidden City and sent her to the nearest hospital. She was very thankful to me and soon got out of the hospital.Questions1.Do you know any knowledge about first aid? What are they?2.What is China’s first aid service situation like?3.Do you think it important for everyone to learn some first aidknowledge?4.Do you know how to deal with patient who has aheart—attack?Entertainment 娱乐People in China are leading a colorful life. V arious forms of entertainment, traditional and modern, make life in China interesting and exciting. People often prefer listening to storytelling to other forms of entertainment. Usually, a storyteller tells us a story adapted from historic events, famous novels or popular TV series. He may also comment on the characters in the story and judge what is right and what is wrong. Once people begin to listen to it, they are soon absorbed into the story. Also, people needn’t spend money buying tickets for storytelling. They can listen to in on the radio. Storytelling is a convenient form of entertainment and it certainly brings much relaxation and a lot of fun into people’s life.Questions1.Do you think entertainment is important to your life? Why?2.What do you think of the traditional entertainment forms likeopra or comic dialogue?3.What do you think of bar culture?4.What do you think of chasing stars?5.Will entertainment affect your work or study?6.How to balance entertainment and work?7.What other entertainment forms do you enjoy?Travel 旅行Travel has become a world—wide activity. Never before have people traveled so much to so many different parts of the world. With new modes of fast comfortable transport more and more people are tempted to leave their own environment and seek pleasure, knowledge, work and adventure in places far away from their home. People travel for many reasons but perhaps the most common is traveling for pleasure.Questions1.Do you like traveling? Why?2.Which places have you visited in Beijing?3.Where else have you traveled? Can you introduce it?4.Do you think a person who likes traveling is not realistic?5.Do you like traveling with a tour or with some friends?Why?6.Do you think traveling is good for people? Give some reasons.7.Do you like traveling during May Day holiday or National Day?Why or why not?8.When traveling do you like to see natural sights or historicalones? Why?9.What should we pay attention to when travel?10.What do you think of the phenomenon that tourists print theirnames on the Great Wall?Eating in a Restaurant 就餐Chinese food is very popular with many foreigners. When they have a chance to come to China, they would like to try some “real” Chinese food because they know that the Chine se food they have had in their own country is quite different. When foreigners cone to Beijing, they can find many different kings of restaurants here. One of the best known is Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant. Another fa mous one is Douglaishun. It is famous for “Mongolian hot pot”. There is a restaurant named Fang Shan in Beihai Park. It was set up bu a cook from the Imperial Palace about 80 years ago. It serves palace cooking and cakes. Beijing also has many restaurants with foreign flavor, such as Moscow Restaurant, Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonald’s.Questions1.Can you tell me about your favorite restaurant?2.Do you prefer eating in a restaurant or at home? Why?3.Which kind of food do you like? Why?4.Do you like fast food restaurant such as KFC? Why?5.Do you prefer Chinese food or western food?6.What do you think of services in Chinese restaurant?Free—time Activities 休闲活动People in Beijing lead a busy, but colorful life. They are busy with work. And the busy work makes them value their free time all the more. They make the best of their leisure time to enrich their life. Many of them take part in outdoor activities, such as sports, camping, mountain--climbing, kite—flying etc. Kite—fling has been an old Chinese pastime. Records about the activity were mentioned as far back as 2,500 years ago. Over the centuries, people have developed kites known for their beauty. People are able to make them look like many animals. Now people will fly kites in early spring and autumn. It’s really a very beautiful scene with kites flying in the sky.Questions1.What do you do in your free time?2.How is Chinese people’s free time life like?3.What free time activities do most Chinese people do?4.How do old people in China spend their free time?5.What do think of flying kites?6.Are there many public sports facilities in your neighborhood?What do you think of them?7.What are your hobbies?8.Do you think it is important to arrange one’s free timeactivities well? Why?Weather 天气Here in Beijing we have four seasons a year. March to May is spring. It’s a warm and beautiful season with flowers everywhere. But it’s also a very windy time. Sandstorm is nothing new to Beijingers. Our summer is from June to August. It’s very hot, except when it rains. But it becomes hot and humid again after the rain. People carry umbrellas for the rain and the sun. Many people turn on their air conditioners and stay indoors to get away from the heat. But some people enjoy sunshine on the beach, or go swimming. I think the best time here is autumn, which is from September to November. It’s coo; and suitable for camping, mountain—climbing and traveling. Autumn is my favorite season. Winter is from December to February. It is very cold and snow a lot. People can go skiing and skate, make snowmen and throw snowballs at each other. But I dislike the cold. So I often stay indoors in the winter.Questions1.What’s Beijing weather like? Do you like Beijing’s weather?2.Which season do you like best? Why?3.Which city in China do you think has the best summer,autumn or winter?4.What do you think of Beijing’s four seasons?5.What’s your opinion about Beijing’s sandstorm?6.What kinds of sports do you like to do in different seasons?7.Which city do you think has the best climate?Chinese Holiday and Festivals 中国的节假日Different countries have different cultures and customs. China has a rich and unique culture. Chinese festivals and holidays are quite different from other counties. In China, there are many traditional festivals. The most important one is Spring Festival. It falls on the first day of the first lunar month. People follow many national and local customs. They paste spring poems with lucky words on the door. They eat delicious food, for example, chicken for good luck. They exchange greetings with friends and relatives. Other important festivals include: New Y ear, Tomb—Sweeping, Mid Autumn Harvest Festival etc.Questions1.Which holiday do you like best? Can you tell me how youcelebrate it?2.What’s your opinion about holiday economy, like May Day orNational Day?3.Talk about spring festival and how do people in your hometown celebrate it?4.How did you spend the May Day holiday?5.Can you introduce QingMing to a foreign friend? And teacher’sday?6.How about other holidays like mid—autumn day, and so on?Sports and the Olympic Games 体育运动与奥运会I think I’ll always do some kind of sports. For instance, I’m going skating this year. I’m not really any good, but I’ve always been interested in sport. I enjoy it. Sport is the greatest activityof all. I think if you’re not interested in sport, you’re not interested in life. Sport is what makes us different from animals. I enjoy all kinds of sports, especially like basketball. It’s a very fast and exciting game. Most of my friends at school like to play it but I’m not good at it. I love to watch it very much. Questions1.What sports do you like?2.What do you feel about Beijing’s holding 2008 Olympic Games?3.What do you think of the “Five Lucky Children”?4.Do you like watching sports games on TV? What are they?5.What is your favorite player or team?6.What benefits will 2008 Olympic Games bring to Beijing?7.What improvements should Beijing make in order to meet theneed of 2008 Olympic Games?8.How much do you know about the relation between China andOlympics?9.What is recreational sport?。