口语考试常见问题

一

1.What exciting food did you have at Spring Festival? Describe the food in a persuasive way.

I recommend spiced beef. Different from beefsteak in Western countries, it is braised with fragrant spice for hours and cut into small slices. It tastes soft with elastic texture. It doesn’t have strong taste itself so you need to eat it with spicy and flavourful sauce. If you have one spice, you can’t help having the second one until you eat them completely.

2.What food are able to cook at home? Describe briefly how you cook it and some of the

health advantages of your food.

I can cook tofu at home. The way I cook tofu is very simple. First, I add some oil into wok and heat it with pepper and ginger. Then I cut tofu into cubes, prepare some vegetables such as tomato, transfer them to wok and cook them together. If needed, I will add some kinds of spices including salt an d soy. The tofu I cook may not be very delicious because I’m not a professional cook. But tofu surely has many health advantages. For example, it can offer protein and prevent diabetes. Some surveys indicate it can replace meat. So if you want to have meat but don’t like fat, tofu is a good displacement.

二、

(1)5 different techniques used by advertisements:

Repeat, sexy voice, background music, rhetorical questions, contrast and speaking loudly.

(2)How would you emphasize the good aspect of a product?

I will find out who are potential consumers of the product and what they really need at first. Then I will try to express how the good aspect of the product meets their needs. What change will be brought to their life if they buy our product. For instance……

(3)What’s the rhetorical question and how dose it help sell a product.

It’s a special sentence style which hides the only answer in the question. It looks like an answer, but its answer is clear. As for advertisements, It is a powerful tool to emphasize the product I want to recommend or a cue to draw spectators’attention. Don’t you think our product is a better choice? Don’t you see the advantage? Why don’t you take action?

(4)What’s the meaning of the world “Nostalgia[n?'st?ld??]”? How does it draw peop le in to an advertisement?

Remember past times or old acquaintances with kindly thoughts. The concept can be used in a tourism Advertising. We can assume that in our advertisement Xi’an is someone’s home so that its places of interest can be listed by his remembrance of hometown. It is also applied to car advertising. Though stating the long history of a car company, the advertisement informs spectators that its client has enough experience and is reliable.

三、

https://www.360docs.net/doc/8e15300143.html, 3 different techniques of speaking persuasively in a debate.

(1)Body language: If I just stand here without any action while speaking, spectators must think I am stiff and dull. In th is case, no one will pay attention to what I am saying although it’s ver y reasonable. So we need to add body languages to our debate. Body language can draw more attention and emphasize my view point.

(2)Expression: Speaking with expression in a debate can express my emotion clearly. Various expressions means I am fully confident about what I say ……

(3)Rhetorial question: It aims to highlight what I want to express. Sometimes you can use rhetorical questions to force the other party of the debate to admit something. Can you deny the

fact? Don’t you agree with me?

Vocabulary: articulation 发音，pitch 音高，charisma 感召力，

四、

(1)What is Passover festival celebrating? Describe how the Passover lamb is related to the crucifixion (刑罚).

The Jewish people celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation(解放)by God from slavery in Egypt and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses. lambs are seen as innocent. So when the ancient jews Prayed for the impunity from the Lord, they tend to let the lamb to take on their sins, and killed it to replace themselves for "sacrifice",

(2)Describe how Easter eggs are related to Jesus’ resurrection.

The egg had the meaning of rebirth itself even before Jesus was born. Based on its traditional meaning, Christians naturally consider the egg as "the beginning of a new life”, What s the main event about the beginning of a new life in Christians’opinion? It’s Jesus’resurrection. So the Easter egg symbolizes “Jesus walked out of the stone tomb". I also see some other stories from internet, buy most of them are not reliable.

(4)Tell me the Easter story in full.

Jesus was betrayed to the Romans by one of his twelve disciples, Judas. Before the arrest, he told his another disciple, Peter not to admit their relationship. Then Peter escaped from the arrest in this way. Finally, Jesus was sentenced to death by the council and was Crucified[krusifaid]. Three days later, some women came to Jesus’ stone tomb and found that he disappeared. Angels told them Jesus’ resurrection. Women told the good news happily to their disciples. Some of them didn’t believe the news until Jesus appeared behind them to show his resurrection.

五、

（1）Name the five love languages.

Words of affirmation, Quality time, gifts, actions of service and Physical touch.

(2)What are your 2 love languages? Explain why you think those are your top.

My top love languages are quality time and actions of service. During quality time, I can exchange his notion and express his emotion with his parents, brothers, friends and so on. I can really feel that someone pays attention to me and someone encourages me. All in all, it gives me the chance to refresh my attitude towards the world. The reason I like actions of service is very simple, is that I can feel the kindness of the helper, especially in specific situations……

(3)Explain how knowing a friend’s love language can improve your friendship with them.

For example, …… is my representative of bedroom from Hubei Province. He chooses actions of services. In his opinion, help and service from other people are more realistic than other modes because they can solve problems he faces while other modes just offer relief. In the future, I will help him within my ability. For example, if he need collect some data for his assignment but has no time, I share mine with him.

六

（1）What ‘s the difference between Extravert and Introvert?

Introvert people gain energy from themselves……but extrovert people gain energy from the other people…….

(2)What’s the difference between Perceiving and judging?

Perceiving people take information they get first while judging people prefer planning and making decisions.

(3)Do you think a sensing person or an intuitive person would choose the same thing for lunch every day?

I think they wouldn’t, a sensing person may choose certain dishes based on his former experience that this dish is affordable or that dish is delicious. However, an intuitive person may choose dishes at random. It just depends on his emotion or sudden thought. We can’t find their specific judgment rules.

(4)Questions of extrovert or introvert, sensing or intuitive.

……

七

(1)What do you look for in a perfect husband/wife?

I look for her Understanding and warmth. I am looking for a wife sharing the same ideal and

interest with me so that she can comprehend what I am doing and my value. Living with her, I can feel that I am fully recognized. The other thing I really want is warmth, I want to live in the environment that we can unload disguise and cherish each other……

(2)She is beautiful girl with charming appearance and sexy temperament. I bet you will be

attracted from see her one eye. She is a little sensitive. So you may take her feeling into consideration if you want to communicate with her……

No education\no education: What we really trust is not ……, ……don’t equal to……

八

(1)What’s your dream job and what skills do you think you have that would be useful?

I want to be an Aircraft designer. I think my talent of software and drawing would be useful.

Before I went to this university, I have learned drawing for a longtime. I like drawing military equipments including aircrafts. I think the skill will give me some advantages and bring me some intelligence during the designing process. After going to this university, I learn computer software. Although it may not be used in the future, but it at least proves my ability of learning something strange.

(2)STAR:

S: situation; T:task; A:action; R:Result.

(3)An example of when you have had to work as part of a team to reach a common goal?

For example, I took part in the College Students Mathematical modeling competence two months a goal. We knew little about according software such as Matlab. Before it began, I learned the software and determined the division of labor with my team leader.

During the process, we overcame many difficulties by discussion (area of data and styles of models) The final decision was made by our team leader. At last, we were lost.

(4)Overcome a confrontational situation.

Calm down at first

Determine the order of things and write down everything’s deadline.

Take action

九

(1)People from hot climate cultures are feeling oriented, they focus on i nterpersonal relationships and treat each other with enthusiasm. They are also hospitable to their guests. The faith of collectivism is their common point. On contrary, Cold climate cultures emphasize

individual value. People from these cultures are task orientated. They focus on rules and plans rather than interpersonal relationship. So their concept of time is serious and they refuse other people directly.

(2)Process I will follow if I want to have dinner with someone from a cold climate culture:

1, I should tell my aim of having dinner with him directly.

2, I should arrive on time.

3, I should learn their table manners before.

(3)4 countries in hot climate culture: Japan, Israel, China and Brazil.

十

(1)Name 5 different Sentences that can be given to a Criminal both in modern and ancient

times.

Theft, robbery, murder, rape and arson.

(2)The process from investigation to sentencing.

The Police and detective investigate, collect evidence and determine the suspect. Then people's procuratorate['pr?kj??,re?t?r?t]approves the arrest. If the suspect is arrested, he will be detained for a time. He has right to ask for a lawyer. At last the court judges and sentences.