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1、口语练习试卷 24及答案与解析 一、 SECTION 3 DISCUSSION (ABOUT 5 MIN) In this part of the test you are given a discussion topic. You have 30 seconds to look at the prompt card, an example of which is below, and then about 3 minutes to discuss the topic with your partner. After that examiner will ask you more questi

2、ons related to the topic. 1 Whats your name? How do you spell your family name? 2 Whats your first name? 3 Where are you from? 4 Could I have your mark-sheet, please? 5 Can you tell me a little about your work or studies, and what you find most interesting about them. 6 Can you tell us why you decid

3、ed to learn English? (Could you tell us which foreign languages you think will be most important in the future in China?) 7 What do you like most or least about your work? (What do you like most about your work? What did you like best about your experience at the firm?) 8 Can you tell me why you cho

4、ose your particular career? (What sparked your interest in your major? How did you first get involved in your career? What promoted your interest in fashion? How did you first get involved in the design industry?) 9 Can you tell me about your future career plans? 10 Why do you want to look for a new

5、 job? Why do you want to quit your job? 11 How do you work with other people? Do you know your own personal strengths and weaknesses? Look at these typesbelow and decide which you are. (Most people feel they are a combination of at least two.) 12 What are your strengths? 13 What is your greatest wea

6、kness? 14 Do you believe that a fate befalls somebody sometimes? 口语练习试卷 24答案与解析 一、 SECTION 3 DISCUSSION (ABOUT 5 MIN) In this part of the test you are given a discussion topic. You have 30 seconds to look at the prompt card, an example of which is below, and then about 3 minutes to discuss the topic

7、 with your partner. After that examiner will ask you more questions related to the topic. 1 【正确答案】 a My name is Liu Jiajia. L-I-U. b My name is Zhang Shuoshuo. Z-H-A-N-G. 【知识模块】 口语 2 【正确答案】 Suggested answers: a My name is Peter Smith. My first name is Peter. b My name is Mary Anne Stone. My first na

8、me is Mary Anne. 【试题解析】 family name指姓。 first name指 “教名 ”、 “名字 ”，不包括姓，放在姓前，如 Peter Smith 中的 Peter， Kathleen Anne Stone中的 Kathleen；但在Mary Anne Stone中， Mary Anne一起作为教名。 【知识模块】 口语 3 【正确答案】 a China. b Im from Russia. 【试题解析】 问你 Where are you from?实际是问你是哪里人 ?考生不必回答具体居住的地方或工作单位。考官有时会变换一下问话， 【知识模块】 口语 4 【正确答

9、案】 Suggested answers: a Yes, of course. b Sure, here you are. 接下来，考官可能问一些与考生个人有关的问题，考生必须立即回答。诸如： Thank you. Now, first of all, Id like to know something about each of you. Q: When did you join that company? Five years ago. Q: Which department did you work in? Administration Q: What was your position

10、? Order Processing clerk. Q: Did you enjoy it? Yes, I did. Q: How long did you stay there? Three years. Q: Why did you leave? I wanted a job closer to home. I would like to take up a career in finance. 【试题解析】 mark sheet是 “打分表 ”， “成绩单 ”。 【知识模块】 口语 5 【正确答案】 Suggested answers: a I am a student. My majo

11、r is Business English. I like my major. International business is most interesting. It is very useful to my career development. Everyone wants a cool job with a good pay packet. We dont wait ten years before we start enjoying life. b I am employed by an international corporation. I work as a persona

12、l assistant to the CEO. I like the job because it is paid well. I enjoy the job because I work with nice people. We always help each other and learn from each other. c I work as an administrator for the international business development group. My responsibilities are responding to correspondence, m

13、aking sure that meetings are scheduled for the right rooms at the right places. I deal with organizing peoples travel in the company to various different countries throughout the world. d The most important thing that I enjoy is actually the people that are here in the company. The people are very f

14、riendly and I enjoy the work. I have tremendous bosses who encouraged me. I learned from them how to take pressure and work fast and hard. It seems to me the only way to work is to be open and honest and speak your mind. 【试题解析】 考生回答要简洁干脆，不要太哕嗦，三五句即可。如果考官 继续细问，再回答。 CEO首席执行官。 【知识模块】 口语 6 【正确答案】 Sugges

15、ted answers: a English is a global language. English language is dominating the World Wide Web. English is widely used in commerce in China as well. It is essential to my work. Thats why I decided to learn English. b English is a common language being used by people around world. It is indispensable

16、 to your career development. Opportunity is abundant, if your English is good enough. Having a good command of English will make you feel happy or hopeful. c English is an international language. It is indispensable to my career life. If I have a good command of English, I will be most likely to be

17、employed by an international firm and my future wont look bleak. d I decided to team English, because English is an important language for cross-cultural communication. Learning English is an enjoyable experience. It is important to my career future. If your English is excellent, you will surely hav

18、e a promising future ahead of you. e Im learning English because English is very useful. It is necessary for me to learn it. I enjoy learning English. I use English very often, almost everyday. I use English to send e-mails. I use English to communicate with foreigners. I use it to do business. I us

19、e it to surf the Internet. All in all, using English has brought enormous enjoyment. 【试题解析】 学习英语有诸多理由。考生回答没有必要罗列一大堆学习英语的原因，回答时给出一二条理由即可。 A bleak future 暗淡的前途。 Dominate主宰，统治，支配。 【知识模块】 口语 7 【正确答案】 Suggested answers: a I am a training officer. My job is to run and provide training courses for customer

20、s and agents. The thing I enjoy most about my work is being able to have direct contact with customers and direct knowledge of the sort of problems they encounter and how to resolve them. b The things I dont enjoy so much is that I feel that I tend to be spending a lot of time either teaching or pre

21、paring training material, and I dont get enough chance to do hands-on programming that I would like to do. I do have to have the skills of programming but what I dont get the opportunity to do at the moment is to actually use them to develop real applications for customers, Im just showing other peo

22、ple how to do it. c Generally speaking, I enjoy my job. I enjoy the company that I work for. Its a very good environment, a very stimulating environment. d Im a systems administrator. I deal with the systems administration for a company. This is a trouble-shooting kind of job. There are all kinds of

23、 responsibilities, such as back-up of data, installation of new machines, installation of the operating system and the installation of the product that the company actually produces. Its quite a challenge, because there are such a variety of problems: sometimes itll be a loose cable on a machine tha

24、ts a problem, another time itll take hours to solve. I think the nice part of system administration is the challenge. Sometimes its very quiet, but on the other hand you can have a day when its completely hectic and all kinds of different problems come up. So youre always being confronted with diffe

25、rent problems, which is nice. The things I dont enjoy are the routine back-ups of all the data; these take a bit of time. The other thing that I dont quite like is the out of hours concept of system administration, because the best time to actually fix problems is when people arent working, which me

26、ans that ideally we should do that after six when everybodys gone home, so, yes, we can be here until the early hours of the morning at the extreme. e Im the group accountant for a company. Im responsible for the day-to-clay accounting for the group, covering financial management, management account

27、ing, cash books, purchase ledger, sales ledger, credit control and so on. Virtually every day youve got a different kind of job to tackle, its always without exception urgent. Im always up against deadlines and therefore Im never bored. I find the whole of finance fascinating anyway and the whole ex

28、ercise is very, very interesting. Its not very pleasant being difficult, or having to be difficult with people to get money out of them. I dont particularly like doing that. f I wish at times I was a little bit more busier. I have to wait for people to generate work for me, as working within the int

29、ernational business development group most of the people actually work in other countries, because theyre not generating the work for me back in the office, they generate the work when theyre back in the office for me to deal with. g Im an area sales manager. Its just a glorified sales representativ

30、e. My responsibilities are: traveling, or going around visiting shops, monitoring the shopping trend; answering queries from customers about sales and planning the next business trip. My trips usually last about a couple of weeks and I go mostly to America and Europe. The job is fairly badly paid, b

31、ut the fact that I get free trips to the foreign countries more or less of my choice for most of the year does in some measure recompense for that. Sometimes, you may feel frustrating or annoying about the job, especially when customers leave one waiting for half an hour or so. I have been known to

32、get my own back on customers who leave me waiting simply by selling them twice as much as I know they need. Its not a trick that I would recommend using all too often, but on the whole the frustrations of the job are minimal. Traveling abroad is perhaps the most-rewarding experience to me. h Im a ma

33、nager of the department called the Banking and Portfolio Department for a large multi-national corporation. The responsibility of the department is to handle all the banking matters, such as relationship, credit issues, opening and closing accounts, etc. We also manage the investment of the companys

34、 excess funds. The best thing about it is that you get to take decisions at a relatively low management level in the company. You get to watch the decisions come, follow through, and you get to see the effect on the bottom-line profit of the company. One of the things I find the most frustrating is

35、that the company is still very bureaucratic. We tend to produce a lot of paper work and reports that dont seem to have any fit with todays company business. And theyve generated for years and we continue to generate them because management has asked for them. We are attempting to change that but it

36、continues to be a source of frustration for my staff and myself. i Im a commercial lender at the Great Wall Corporation, which is a commercial bank in a suburb of Shanghai with assets of about $500 million. Bank of China in the city of Shanghai, which has assets of about $8. 9 billion, has recently

37、purchased it. We are very much a community-oriented bank and my lending will be diverse. . . err. . . working with individuals, making mortgages and home construction loans as well as making personal loans and business and industrial loans. So very much of a general-purpose broad area of lending. Wh

38、at is enjoyable about what I do is the opportunity to work with the owners of companies in the area and with professional people that reside in the community. Im working with owners of steel companies, with popcorn producers, with individuals that make washers for many purposes. And it allows me the

39、 variety of work that working at a large multi-billion bank does not have to offer, as youll be working in narrow job description handling one type of lending. Some of the frustrations with the job are restrictions as to what you can do or not do for a customer, as many of the requests that we recei

40、ve are either too small or too large for us to handle and at that point we dont really have the product to sell them, we have to defer them to our competition. j Im a receptionist and I deal with incoming mail and people, which are the most important part of my job. Dealing with people, I think, is

41、possibly the most enjoyable part of it. I also send e-mails and faxes. The most enjoyable part about my job is meeting people. There are people from all over the country, all over the world, all walks of life, which is the most interesting part of my job. OK, people can be very irritating but they c

42、an be very nice as well, and I think the nice ones outnumber the irritating ones really. Its a very people- orientated job. Its communication, whether it be with e-mail or fax and that can all be fun as well if youre having problems getting through and finding out why the same way that sometimes you

43、re trying to send a fax to someone and you get some poor soul in the Middle East speaking Arabic or something that you unfortunately have got a wrong number but its all part of the job and its fun. You dont often get annoying people face to face. You get more annoying people over the telephone, beca

44、use people feel that they can say things to you over the phone that they perhaps wouldnt say to you to your face. The same way that we perhaps say things to people over the phone that we wouldnt say to their face, because I think you can communicate far easier than over the phone. One needs to balan

45、ce work and personal life. If a man/woman feels he/she can balance work and home, then he/shes much likely to stay at a company. k I am a personal assistant to the executive director. I really like my job because its interesting. But I dont have so much opportunity to use my English. I hate time-was

46、ter. Its understandable that people may get together sometime for a drink. But running on empty is what I like least about my work. l. I like my work very much because I am doing something I love. I like everything I am doing right now. It is a dream coming true to be able to contribute everything I

47、 have learnt in school and in real life to the community. m The people I work with, and the responsibilities. I like people, responsibility, and exposure, in that order. n The most enjoyable things Id like to do is getting to know people in a variety of fields with a wide scope of personalities. And

48、 I also like creating, sharing and building a brand. o Variety and being actively coached by fellow consultants. I learned a lot from mistakes I made and everyone I worked with. If I had navigated around those experiences I would have learned a lot less. 【试题解析】 考生可从以上参考口语材料中选择最 适合自己的表达语句，重新组合三五句话，回答

49、流利即可。考官没有细问，考生没有必要主动说一大套。但是，平时进行口语练习时，考生应尽可能参照以上口语资料反复口述。这样，考生的口语会得到快速提高。 time-waster浪费时间的人 (或事物 )。 hate hypocrisy憎恶虚伪。 hectic激动的，繁忙的，忙乱的。 ledger 分类账，分户账。 recompense 酬报，回报，补偿。 people-oriented job 以人为本的工作。 【知识模块】 口语 8 【正确答案】 Suggested answers: a Yes, Ill tell you why. I am working as a Personal Assistant to the Chief Executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission. I like this challenging role within the organization. Progress and visionary, were dedicated to challenging discri