2010年研究生复试英语口语测试题
一、 日常会话
1． 从10个话题中随机选取一个； 2． 准备时间：1分钟； 3． 谈论时间：4分钟左右； 4． 满分：25分
二、 朗读短文并回答问题
1． 从3篇短文中随机选取一篇； 2． 朗读和答问时间约为5分钟；
3． 满分：25分（其中朗读10分，答问15分）
TOPIC CARD NO.2
TOPIC CARD NO.4
TOPIC CARD NO.6
TOPIC CARD NO.7
TOPIC CARD NO.8
TOPIC CARD NO.9
TOPIC CARD NO.10
Read the story aloud, then answer the questions:
A Butcher and Attendant
Dick was a clever boy, but his parents were poor, so he had to work to pay for his education in his spare time and during his holidays. In spite of this, he managed to get to the university, but it was so expensive to study there that he found it necessary to get two jobs at the same time so as to earn enough money to pay for his studies.
One summer he managed to get a job in a butcher’s shop during the daytime, and another in a hospital at night. In the shop, he learnt to cut meat up quite nicely, so the butcher often left him to do all the serving while he went into a room behind the shop to do the accounts. In the hospital, on the other hand, he was, of course, allowed to do only the simplest jobs, like helping to lift people and carry them from one part of the hospital to another. Both at the butcher’s shop and at the hospital, Dick had to wear white clothes.
One evening at the hospital, Dick had to help to carry a woman from her bed to the place where she was to have an operation. The woman was already feeling frightened at the thought of the operation before he get to her, but when she saw Dick, that frightered her.
“No! No!” she cried. “Not my butcher! I won’t be operated on by my butcher!” and fainted away.
Questions:
1. What did Dick have to do in order to go to the university? 2. What did he learn in the shop? 3. Why did the woman faint away?
The Daughter and the Preacher
There was an old man who had a daughter. He told his daughter that he had invited a preacher to his house. He said, “Daughter, I’m going down to the train to meet the Reverend, and I’ve roasted two ducks and left them there for him in the other room. Don’t you touch them!” The daughter said, “No, I won’t touch them.” So her papa went to the train to meet the Reverend, and the girl began to taste the ducks. The ducks tasted so good that she kept on tasting them until she had eaten them all up, every bit of them.
After the old man came back, he didn’t even look in the place where he had left the ducks. He went directly into the other room to sharpen his knife on the oilstone so he could carve the ducks. The preacher was sitting in the room with the girl. She knew that her papa was going to punish her, and she started crying and shedding tears. The preacher asked, “What is the matter with you, girl?”She said, “Papa has this one bad fault: He invites preachers to his house and goes to sharpen his knife to cut off both their ears.” And the Reverend asked, “ What is that you say, daugher?” The girl said, “Yes, Papa invites preachers here all the time and cuts off both their ears.” The preacher said, “Daughter, hand me my hat. Quick!” The girl gave him his hat and he ran out of the door quickly. The daugher called her papa and said, “Papa, the preacher got both the ducks and has gone.” The old man ran to the door and yelled to the preacher, “Hey, where are you going in such a hurry? Come back here right now!” But the preacher just kept running and shouted back over his shoulder, “Damned if you’ll get either one of these.”
Questions:
1. What did the father ask the daughter not to do? 2. Why did the preacher run away? 3. What do you think of the daughter?
Mexican Smuggler
Juan comes up to the Mexican border on his bicycle. He’s got two large bags over his shoulders. The guard stops him and says, “What’s in the bags?”
“Sand,” answered Juan.
The guard says, “We’ll just see about that. Get off the bike.” The guard takes the bags and rips them apart. He empties them out and finds nothing in them but sand.
He detains Juan overnight and has the sand analysed, only to discover that there is nothing but pure sand in the bags.
The guard releases Juan, puts the sand into new bags, hefts them onto the man’s shoulders, and lets him cross the border.
A week later, the same thing happens. The guard asks, “What have you got?”
“Sand,” says Juan.
The guard does his thorough examination and discovers that the bags contain nothing but sand. He gives the sand back to Juan, and Juan crosses the border on his bicycle.
This sequence of events is repeated every week for three years. Finally, Juan doesn’t show up and one day the guard meets him in a bar in Mexico.
“Hey, buddy,” says the guard. “I know you are smuggling something. It’s driving me crazy. It’s all I think about…I can’t sleep. Just between you and me, what are you smuggling?”
Juan sips his beer and says, “Bicycles”.
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Questions:
1. What does Juan carry when he comes up to the Mexican border?
2. What does the guard suspect about Juan?
3. What is Juan smuggling?
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2010年研究生复试英语口语测试题
一、 日常会话
1． 从10个话题中随机选取一个； 2． 准备时间：1分钟； 3． 谈论时间：4分钟左右； 4． 满分：25分
二、 朗读短文并回答问题
1． 从3篇短文中随机选取一篇； 2． 朗读和答问时间约为5分钟；
3． 满分：25分（其中朗读10分，答问15分）
TOPIC CARD NO.2
TOPIC CARD NO.4
TOPIC CARD NO.6
TOPIC CARD NO.7
TOPIC CARD NO.8
TOPIC CARD NO.9
TOPIC CARD NO.10
Read the story aloud, then answer the questions:
A Butcher and Attendant
Dick was a clever boy, but his parents were poor, so he had to work to pay for his education in his spare time and during his holidays. In spite of this, he managed to get to the university, but it was so expensive to study there that he found it necessary to get two jobs at the same time so as to earn enough money to pay for his studies.
One summer he managed to get a job in a butcher’s shop during the daytime, and another in a hospital at night. In the shop, he learnt to cut meat up quite nicely, so the butcher often left him to do all the serving while he went into a room behind the shop to do the accounts. In the hospital, on the other hand, he was, of course, allowed to do only the simplest jobs, like helping to lift people and carry them from one part of the hospital to another. Both at the butcher’s shop and at the hospital, Dick had to wear white clothes.
One evening at the hospital, Dick had to help to carry a woman from her bed to the place where she was to have an operation. The woman was already feeling frightened at the thought of the operation before he get to her, but when she saw Dick, that frightered her.
“No! No!” she cried. “Not my butcher! I won’t be operated on by my butcher!” and fainted away.
Questions:
1. What did Dick have to do in order to go to the university? 2. What did he learn in the shop? 3. Why did the woman faint away?
The Daughter and the Preacher
There was an old man who had a daughter. He told his daughter that he had invited a preacher to his house. He said, “Daughter, I’m going down to the train to meet the Reverend, and I’ve roasted two ducks and left them there for him in the other room. Don’t you touch them!” The daughter said, “No, I won’t touch them.” So her papa went to the train to meet the Reverend, and the girl began to taste the ducks. The ducks tasted so good that she kept on tasting them until she had eaten them all up, every bit of them.
After the old man came back, he didn’t even look in the place where he had left the ducks. He went directly into the other room to sharpen his knife on the oilstone so he could carve the ducks. The preacher was sitting in the room with the girl. She knew that her papa was going to punish her, and she started crying and shedding tears. The preacher asked, “What is the matter with you, girl?”She said, “Papa has this one bad fault: He invites preachers to his house and goes to sharpen his knife to cut off both their ears.” And the Reverend asked, “ What is that you say, daugher?” The girl said, “Yes, Papa invites preachers here all the time and cuts off both their ears.” The preacher said, “Daughter, hand me my hat. Quick!” The girl gave him his hat and he ran out of the door quickly. The daugher called her papa and said, “Papa, the preacher got both the ducks and has gone.” The old man ran to the door and yelled to the preacher, “Hey, where are you going in such a hurry? Come back here right now!” But the preacher just kept running and shouted back over his shoulder, “Damned if you’ll get either one of these.”
Questions:
1. What did the father ask the daughter not to do? 2. Why did the preacher run away? 3. What do you think of the daughter?
Mexican Smuggler
Juan comes up to the Mexican border on his bicycle. He’s got two large bags over his shoulders. The guard stops him and says, “What’s in the bags?”
“Sand,” answered Juan.
The guard says, “We’ll just see about that. Get off the bike.” The guard takes the bags and rips them apart. He empties them out and finds nothing in them but sand.
He detains Juan overnight and has the sand analysed, only to discover that there is nothing but pure sand in the bags.
The guard releases Juan, puts the sand into new bags, hefts them onto the man’s shoulders, and lets him cross the border.
A week later, the same thing happens. The guard asks, “What have you got?”
“Sand,” says Juan.
The guard does his thorough examination and discovers that the bags contain nothing but sand. He gives the sand back to Juan, and Juan crosses the border on his bicycle.
This sequence of events is repeated every week for three years. Finally, Juan doesn’t show up and one day the guard meets him in a bar in Mexico.
“Hey, buddy,” says the guard. “I know you are smuggling something. It’s driving me crazy. It’s all I think about…I can’t sleep. Just between you and me, what are you smuggling?”
Juan sips his beer and says, “Bicycles”.
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Questions:
1. What does Juan carry when he comes up to the Mexican border?
2. What does the guard suspect about Juan?
3. What is Juan smuggling?
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