大英二口语考试

College just isn’t special any more本篇文章是关于上世纪六十年代的大学生和当今大学生的不同。

过去，大学生积极参与政治活动，富有热情，激进。

他们认为大学教育提供了幻想的机会，他们有很大的自由，也追求享乐。

现在，大学生似乎没有了政治热情，他们更实用，教育对他们而言只是实现目的的手段，能够增加就业前景。

这种不同的原因是多方面的，但是经济和通讯革命是最重要的两个因素。

This passage mainly talked about the difference between modern college students and the students of 1920s.In the past, with enthusiasm and radical, they devote themselves to polity. They think education give them chance illusion. They are free and enjoy it. But now, students are more practical. They think education is just an approach to achieve a goal, which can increase the employment prospects. The reason that cause this difference is variety. But the economy and communication revolution is the most significant.Unit TwoHow empathy unfolds本文主要是关于同感心理是如何开始的。

一系列的例子表明，1)婴儿似乎在出生后的几个月内，难以分清其他婴儿和自身的痛苦。

2)但是一岁多后，他们开始认识到其他婴儿的痛苦不同于自身。

3)两岁半时，这种同感心理开始出现不同。

4) 孩子的同感心理和孩子如何被管教，目睹其他孩子的反应，模仿和帮助其他孩子等因素有密切的关联。

This passage is talking about how the empathy began. A serious of example shows that infants feel sympathetic distress between themselves and others a few months after birth. But when they are one years old, they begin to understand the pain of others is different from theirs. When they are two and a half, their empathy appears different. Children’s empathy is shaped by how the children be disciplined, seeing how others react, imitating and helping other children.This is SandySandy是个聋女孩，但是她非常乐观，喜欢结交朋友，爱美。

搜集了很多助听器。

她认为耳朵聋使她很特别。

在一次舞会上，她邂逅了一个帅气男孩，两人一见钟情，成为情侣。

她认为要不是自己耳聋，就没有这次浪漫的经历。

Sandy is a deaf girl, but she is very optimistic. She likes making friend and has collected a lot of hearing aids. She thinks the deaf ears make her different. At a apartment party, she met a handsome boy, They fell in love for the first sight, and then they become a couple. She thinks this romantic experience wouldn’t have happen if she weren’t wearing hearing aids.Stolen identity本文讲的是身份盗窃。

身份盗窃变得越来越常见。

在本文中，作者提出了一些避免身份盗窃的建议。

1. 我们需要改变思维方式。

2. 采取一些预防措施。

3，千方百计消除上网后留下的个人信息。

4. 一旦身份被盗，应该马上挂失。

作者最后提到，这种犯罪不会消失，而且会发生到每个人头上。

This passage is mainly talking about stealing identity which has become increasingly common. In this passage, the author gives us some advice about how to avoid identity thieves. First, we should change our mindset. Second, take a few precautions. Third, don’t leave important personal information after accessing the internet, and you must try every means to remove them. Forth, if once you have your identity stolen, canceling your credit card is obviously the first thing to do. Finally, the author mentions that there is no escaping the fact that this crime won’t fade away and it may occur to everyone.By the numbers本文涉及数字化时代的个人信息盗取犯罪，如果一个陌生人获取了你的个人信息，那将是非常可怕的。

当今经济越来越集中化，全球化，网络化。

信息四处流通，信息的拥有者可以为所欲为，如果他不讲究伦理，就会使用通用身份这一本来给人带来巨大方便的高科技，从人们那里榨取金钱。

This passage is concerned about the personal information theft crime in the digital age, if a stranger gets your personal information, it would be very scary. Today’s economy is more and more concentrated, global, networked. Information moves everywhere, the owner of the information can do whatever they want, if he didn’t pay attention to ethics, he will use the universal identity that would bring great convenience of high-tech to extract money from people.Unit FourMaking the headlines本文涉及头条新闻的几个要素。

头条新闻应该具有历史和国际性影响。

而且，所谓新闻价值还意味着事件要有奇异性，不可预知性和人性化。

有的头条新闻令人震惊、耸人听闻，。

新闻还有即时性。

电视，在即时性方面，胜过报纸。

但是它未必比报纸更客观。

在21世纪，互联网的广泛使用使得普通人也可以对新闻报道做出很大的贡献。

This passage is talking about several factors involving the headlines. The headlines should be historical and international influence. In addition, the so-called news value means that events have the singularity, unpredictability and humanization. Shocking, sensational, some headlines news have immediacy. Television, in terms of immediacy, is better than a newspaper. But it is not necessarily more objective than newspapers. In the 21st century, the widespread use of the Internet makes the ordinary people can also make great contribution to news reports.The death of the newspaper本篇涉及在互联网时代，报纸是否会消亡。

人们越来越多地借助于网络了解新闻，结果是，报纸发行量下降，来自广告的收入也下降。

报纸的环境影响也很大。

似乎报纸确实在走向消亡。

但是读报也有其独到的好处，而且是伟大的传统，如果未来的报纸能有所改变，会比互联网更有优势。

This article is talking about in the age of the Internet, whether newspapers will die out. People are increasingly using the Internet to get the news, the result is that the amount of newspaper circulation decline, revenue from advertising also fell. The environmental impact of the newspaper is also great. It seems that newspapers are dying. But the newspaper also has its unique advantage, and it is a great tradition, if the future of newspapers can change, it will have more advantages than the Internet.Unit FiveThe story of Anne Frank’s DiaryAnne 是一个犹太女孩，二战期间，她和她的家庭受到来自纳粹的迫害，被局限在很小的藏身地两年多，尽管处境艰难，但是她坚持记日记。