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英语口语测试评分参考标准 （II 级） 一、段落背诵 ( 5分 ) 1． 背诵完整、流利 3分 2． 语音、语调正确、自然 2分 二、回答问题 ( 5分 ) 1． 回答切题 1分 2． 表达完整、流利，语义连贯 2分 3． 用词正确、贴切，词汇较丰富，语句结构较复杂 2分 每人口试时间：5分钟 Oral Test ( Band II ) Examiner’s Material Part I ( 2 minutes) Examiner: Good morning (afternoon ), … .Could you please come here and draw your lot? Oh, it’s Unit … . Now please recite … . Part II ( 3 minutes ) Examiner: Ok, now I’d like you to answer some questions based on Unit … . You will have three minutes to talk about the questions. Don’t worry if I interrupt you at the end of the time limit. ( 5 minutes later ) That’s the end of the test. Thank you.  Part I Recitation Part II Questions for Oral Test (Band II) Unit 1 1. What does the text begin with? What exactly is it? (The text begins with an anecdote/incident. The story goes like this:…) 2. What was the author’s assigned task in China? ( To investigate the ways of early childhood education (especially in arts), and to throw light on Chinese attitudes to creativity.) 3. What would the author and his wife do when their 18-month-old son, Benjamin, failed to put the key into the slot? And how would Chinese staff members of the hotel respond to it? (They usually did nothing and allowed the boy to keep trying by himself. Any Chinese staff member nearby would come over to watch Benjamin and, noting his lack of initial success, attempt to assist.) 4. What were Howard Gardner’s explanations to their attitude to the key-slot incident? (The critical point was that, in the process, they were trying to teach children that one can solve a problem effectively by oneself. Such self-reliance is a principal value of child rearing in middle-class America.) 5. Why did the author’s colleagues in China think it good to teach by holding his hand in performing simple tasks? (Because they think children can learn the simple skills faster, which saves time for them to proceed to more complex activity.) 6. Why do American people care more about t