英语2口语考试说明及试题(请老师们发给学生).docVIP

2014级的同学们： 为引导学生重视口语，提高英语应用能力，外国语学院本学期举行14级大学英语Ⅱ口语考试，口语考试成绩将占期末考核总评成绩的15%。 口试题型为段落朗读及口语对话，要求考生按顺序朗读所抽到的材料并进行二人对话，总限时5分钟。考官将按照评分标准根据学生朗读及对话的内容、语音、语调、语速、意群停顿、流利程度等综合打分。 按每个考场学生名单序号，考生在考务人员的安排下提前5-10分钟抽取朗读材料，要求考生在考场后一排座位处安静准备。考试前，考生需要向监考老师出示学生证。考完所抽题签必须交回抽签处，禁止考生对题签做任何标记或折叠。考完后请迅速、安静地离开考场，切勿讨论或喧哗。 时间：2015年6月27日（16周周六） 各班具体时间、地点和名单安排另行通知。 请老师们各班安排的副考务于考试开始之前10分钟到达考场，主动跟考官老师联系。为了保证考试顺利进行，请通知上下午第二场考试的学生提前40分钟到达备考。 以下为30个口语考试题签，请同学们认真准备。祝大家考试成功！ 外国语学院大学外语第二教学部 2015年6月 15篇段落朗读 Passage 1 In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give proof to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe. Now the trumpet summons us again — not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need — not as a call to battle, though embattled we are — but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, “rejoicing in hope; patient in trouble,”— a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself. Passage 2 From these changes, Americans would reduce the amount of land, water and chemicals used to produce the food we eat, as well as the incidence of lifestyle diseases linked to unhealthy diets, and greenhouse gases from industrial meat production. The government’s organic program, says Joan Shaffer, a spokeswoman for the Agriculture Department, “is a marketing program that sets standards for what can be certified as organic. Neither the enabling legislation nor the regulations address food safety or nutrition.” People don’t understand that, nor do they realize “organic” doesn’t mean “local.” “It doesn’t matter if it’s from the farm down the road or from Chile,” Ms. Shaffer said. “As long as it meets the standards, it’s organic.” Passage 3 But this isn’t jus