口语考试精选样题(组卷人：——朱海）Test OnePart OnePeople do get hurt in "adventure sports" and the most dangerous is climbing, which kills eight people a year. But it is not always obvious which activities are dangerous. For instance, two people die every year in hanggliding accidents, but the same number are killed by badminiton, whereas six people a year die in fishing accidents! So "exciting" isn't always the same as "dangerous". This is even more true when you consider the activities of every day life. Many more people die due to accidents in the home than from sports of any king.Test TwoPart OneTeenagers who don't get up in the morning are brighter and more successful.A study of students' sleep by reserarchers in the USA found that teenagers who get up early are often tired and can't concentrate in class."Young children love to get up early but teenagers have a different biological clock," says a professor of Brown University. Her reserach showed that teenagers naturally go to sleep and wake up later than normal-for good biological reasons.Now many American schools have changed the start of their morning classes from 7.30 to 8.30 or even 9.00.Test ThreePart OneIf you're not sure whether you want to say yes or no, then say you'll give an answer later,and refuse to discuss it further. This gives you time to decide and to prepare yourself to say no if necessary. Use body language to give your words more authority:stand up straight, straighten your shoulders and look at the person. If your're talking on the phone, stand up-it makes you feel and therefore sound more confident. If a request is reasonable but you don't want to do it, then offer an alternative, for example, "I don't have time on Saturday, but I could do it one night next week."Test FourPart OneAt last, after what seemed to us an age, the liftboat reached the man and two of the sailors pulled him on board. This was not at all easy, for the sea was rather rough. Then the sailors began to row back to the ship again. the lift boat was rasied out of the water and the rescued man, wrapped in a blanket, was helped out on to the deck. Leaning on the arm of the ship's doctor, but still able to walk in spite of his terrible experience, he was led off to the ship's hospital. As he passed along the deck, everyone cheered loudly. Test FivePart OneWorking long hours can greatly increase the risk of suffering injury or illness, a recent risk study says. Workers who do overtime were 61% more likely to become hurt or ill, once factors such as age and so on were taken into account. And working more than 12 hours a day raised the risk by more than a third, one of the universitities in Chicago found. According to their report, risk increased with longer working hours, not just a dangerous jobs, but in all types of work.Test SixPart OneThe new Harry Potter book "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" sold an astonishing6.9 million copies in its first 24 hours, breaking the record held by the previous release. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" averaged better than 250,000 sales per hour, more than most books sell in a lifetime. Some other writers, even the most popular ones of adult fiction, sell no more than 20,000 books in the first week of sale.Test SevenPart OneIndians are the world's biggest bookworms, reading on average 10.7 hours a week, twice as long as Americans, according to a new survey. The NOP World Culture Score index surveyed 30,000 people in 30 countries from December 2004 to February 2005. Experts said the desire to read could explain India's high figures. Time spent on reading meant fewer hours watching TV and listening to the radio - India came fourth last in both. The survey saw China take second place and the Philippines take third in average hours a week, spent reading books, newspapers and magazines.Test EightPart OneA rich young man decided to do some diving in the sea, so he bought a rubber suit, and took some lessons at a diving school. Then one day, he walked into the water and began to explore the bottom of the sea.He suddenly saw a man waving his arms and legs around wildly near the bottom of the sea. He was only wearing a bathing suit.The rich young man was very surprised to see him, so he took out a plastic notebook and a special pencil and wrote "What are you doing?’ The other man took the pencil and wrote "Drowning!"Test NinePart OneBritish potato farmers were taking to the streets for the expression "couch potato" to be removed from the Oxford English Dictionary, for it harms the image of the vegetable. The British Potato Organization wants the Dictionary to replace the expression with the term "couch slouch". Kathy Race, head of marketing at the Organization, said, "We are trying to get rid of the image that potatoes are bad for you. The potato has been criticized in the past." The Dictionary says "couch potato" started as American, meaning "a person who spends a great deal of time watching television."Test TenPart OneOne U.S. company said on August 10 that it wants to send two tourists on a trip around the moon at a cost of $500 million per ticket. Space Adventures Company, which has already sent two citizens on separate trips into space, says it has researched and identified more than a thousand customers, who are interested, with the necessary wealth for a moon shot as early as 2008. The trip around the moon would last between 8 and 21 days, depending on whether the travelers make a stop at the International Space Station.Test ElevenPart OneTo make an Olympic champion takes millions of young people around the world to be inspired to choose Olympic sport.I'm delighted we have with us today representatives of the next generation. We're serious about inspiring young people. And thanks to London's multi-cultural mix of 200 nations, they also represent the youth of the world. Their families have come from everycontinent. They practice every religion and every faith. What unites them is London, their love of sport and their heartfelt dream of bringing the Olympic Games to our city.Test Twelve（2014宁夏高校高考口语真题）Part OnePolice are looking for robbers who stole valuable diamonds from the jewelry display at the City Center yesterday evening during the annual Gold Exhibition. The owner reported that a necklace estimated to be worth $1.5 million was taken by a young couple. A witness at the scene said that a couple in their early twenties caught her eye because they seemed too young to be interested in such expensive jewelry. In her version of the story, the pair were dressed in clothing and hairstyles that seemed too casual for the rather formal atmosphere of the jewelry show.。
