1、国家公共英语（五级）口试模拟试卷 10及答案与解析 一、考生个人情况介绍 1 Examiner:Good morning. Can I have your marksheets , please? Thank you. My name is . . . and this is my colleague. . . He/She is not going to talk to you ,but he/she is just going to listen to us. So your name is. . . and. . . ? Thank you. First of all ,ived lik
2、e to know something about yourselves ,so Im going to ask you some questions about yourselves. (Begin with Candidate A ,then move on to Candidate B.)Now . (say the name of the candidate and ask questions) Hometown Where are you from? How long have you lived there? How does your hometown compare with.
3、 (place where the candidate is currently living) ? Family What about your family? Could you tell us something about your family? Work/study What do you do in . (the candidates hometown) ,do you work or study? (If the candidate is already working) What does your work involve? Is your job something yo
4、u had always wanted to do? How long do you think you will stay in this job? (If the candidate is still at school,college or university) What are your favorite subjects at school? What exactly are you studying? What type of work are you hoping to do in the future? What qualifications will you need to
5、 achieve that? 二、考生相互问答 2 Examiner:Now, . (say the names of Candidate A and Candidate B)here is a list of the positive and negative of part-time job. (Hand out the list to the candidates and let them read it through.)What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of part-time jobs? Id like e
6、ach of you to choose three from the list and tell each other why. If you hold different opinions you may argue and you may also add your own ideas that are not listed here. You just talk to each other and I wont join you. You have 5 minutes. All right. Would you begin? (The examiner may sit back and
7、 intervene only when necessary.) Positive and negative of part-time job : Foster a sense of competition Gain experience Less of financial burden Buy more books Too money-orientated Play truant Expose students to bad social habits 三、继续性问答 3 Examiner: Now,in this part of the test Im going to give each
8、 of you a list of three different topics. Id like you to select one of the topics and give a short presentation of about 2 minutes.When (say the name of Candidate A)has finished talking , Id like you (say the name of Candidate B) to ask him/her one or two questions. You may make notes while you are
9、preparing and take notes while the other person is talking. All right? Here are your topics.(Hand over the Topic Card A and in the main that will be the method employed by future generations when they wish to investigate the language of our own age. Because of this necessity of relying on written do
10、cuments when learning a language, and because reading and writing have come to occupy so a large place in our daily lives, there has grown a tendency to think of language in terms of the written or printed world. But printing and writing are only substitutes for speech. In its primary sense language
11、, as its name implies, is oral. Printing and writing have certainly had an influence on the development of language usually displaying a conservative tendency, but in the end what is written is determined by what is said. Secondly, we must realize that languages are constantly changing. If we look a
12、t a passage from Chaucer (who was writing towards the end of the fourteenth century), and compare it with the English that is spoken and written today, it is obvious that the language has altered considerably in the intervening five hundred years or more; and if we go even further back, we find an e
13、ven greater difference. These facts are really too self-evident to need pointing out. But although this evolutionary factor is obvious and widely recognized, there is frequently a tendency to assume that it is a thing of the past, and that, in all “civilized coun-tries“at least, language has now bec
14、ome more or less fixed and set, so that the English, the French and the German of today will be the English, the French and the German of two cen-turise hence. This is far form the truth. Thirdly, it should be realized that speech or language is the distinguishing characteristic of man, and is one of the chief attributes which differenciates him from the other animal species. Why? The answer is probably to do with the development of mind. As the mind of species they develop speech.
