10级大学英语II口语考试有关事宜
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10级大学英语II口语考试有关事宜 考试时间：拟安排在第14周周末 考试题型：10级二本---课文朗读&小组讨论话题。 具体要求：（1）课文朗读，以考查学生的语音语调为主。要求能基本做到朗读流利，发音准确。 （2）话题讨论以考查学生的语言表达能力为主。要求能用英语就某一话题表达自己的观点看法，进行日常的交流。 考试范围：10级二本：Unit 1-Unit 6（精读书Text A的单元背诵段落） 用于小组讨论的10个话题 考试分值：总分10分, 课文朗读5分，小组讨论5分。 注意事项： 1. 考生以班为单位，带好有效证件（一卡通或身份证或学生证）按考试时间至规定的考场考试； 2. 口语考试之前，考生可到侯考教室侯考； 3. 小组讨论人数请控制在2-4人/组，不允许单人一组； 4. 考生进行课文朗读或范文背诵时，由监考老师规定考试内容；参加小组讨论的考生请从任课老师布置的话题中挑选一个进行准备，考试时必须脱稿，内容不得出现雷同。 大学外语教学部 2010-5-3 附： 小组讨论话题： 1. Imagination is more important than knowledge 2. Important qualities of a good teacher 3. Who is the hero you admire most? Give your reasons 4. A friend in need is a friend indeed 5. Smoking in public places 6. A place you like best in China 7. An unforgettable experience 8. Three keys to a happy life 9. The importance of advertising in market economy 10. Significance of the invention of E-mail (可替换话题：Future of communications between people)
Unit 1 The Dinner Party The American does not join in the argument but watches the other guests. As he looks, he sees a strange expression come over the face of the hostess. She is staring straight ahead, her muscles contracting slightly. She motions to the native boy standing behind her chair and whispers something to him. The boy’s eyes widen: he quickly leaves the room. Of the guests, none except the American notices this or sees the boy place a bowl of milk on the veranda just outside the open doors. The American comes to with a start. In India, milk in a bowl means only one thing — bait for a snake. He realizes there must be a cobra in the room. He looks up at the rafters — the likeliest place — but they are bare. Three corners of the room are empty, and in the fourth the servants are waiting to serve the next course. There is only one place left — under the table.
Unit 2 Lessons from Jefferson Jefferson’s courage and idealism were based on knowledge. He probably knew more than any other man of his age. He was an expert in agriculture, archeology, and medicine. He practiced crop rotation and soil conservation a century before these became standard practice, and he invented a plow superior to any other in existence. He influenced architecture throughout America, and he was constantly producing devices for making the tasks of ordinary life easier to perform. Of all Jefferson’s many talents, one is central. He was above all a good and tireless writer. His complete works, now being published for the first time, will fill more than fifty volumes. His talent as an author was soon discovered, and when the time came to write the Declaration of Independence at Philadelphia in 1776, the task of writing it was his. Millions have thrilled to his words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ...”
Unit 3 My First Job While I was waiting to enter university, I saw advertised in a local newspaper a teaching post at a school in a suburb of London about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of money and wanting to do something useful, I applied, fearing as I did so, that without a degree and with no experience in teaching my chances of getting the job were slim. However, three days later a letter arrived, asking me to go to Croydon for an interview. It proved an awkward journey: a train to Croydon station; a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter of a mile. As a result I arrived on a hot June morning too depressed to feel nervous.
Unit 4 The Professor and the Yo-Yo As a boy and then as an adult, I never lost my wonder at the personality that was Einstein. He was the only person I knew who had come to terms with himself and the world around him. He knew what he wanted and he wanted only this: to understand within his limits as a human being the nature of the universe and the logic and simplicity in its functioning. He knew there were answers beyond his intellectual reach. But this did not frustrate him. He was content to go as far as he could. In the 23 years of our friendship, I never saw him show jealousy, vanity, bitterness, anger, resentment, or personal ambition. He seemed immune to these emotions. He was beyond any pretension. Although he corresponded with many of the world’s most important people, his stationery carried only a watermark — W — for Woolworth’s.
Unit 5 The Villain in the Atmosphere The sea level is rising very slowly from year to year. In all likelihood, it will continue to rise and do so at a greater rate in the course of the next hundred years. Where there are low-lying coastal areas (where a large fraction of the world’s population lives) the water will advance steadily, forcing people to retreat inland. Eventually the sea will reach two hundred feet above its present level, and will be splashing against the windows along the twentieth floors of Manhattan’s skyscrapers. Florida will disappear beneath the waves, as will much of the British Isles, the crowded Nile valley, and the low-lying areas of China, India, and Russia. Not only will many cities be drowned, but much of the most productive farming areas of the world will be lost. As the food supply drops, starvation will be widespread and the structure of society may collapse under the pressure.
