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Oral English Certificate Examination (Elementary Level) (Sample) 江苏省外语口语/口译证书英语考试（初级） （样卷） This exam asks you to complete four tasks in English: (I) answer three simple questions; (II) read a passage aloud; (III) answer three questions; and (IV) describe what you see in a picture. Task I: Answering Simple Questions A tape will pose three questions about you. It allows fifteen 15 seconds for you to respond to each. You will hear each question ONLY ONCE. Please speak loudly and clearly, so the equipment can record your voice. Now, let’s begin. Question 1: What’s your name? Question 2: Where do you come from? Question 3: What is your job? Task II: Reading Aloud Please read the following a passage aloud. You will have ONE minute to prepare and TWO minutes to complete your reading. Please speak loudly and clearly, so the equipment can record your voice. Time Zones If you travel far, either east or west, you will notice that strange things happen to your sense of time. Your watch and body may tell you it is early morning, for example, while the sun sets below the horizon. Twenty-four time zones divide the earth into an equal number of hours. Travel across these zones adds or subtracts hours to or from days. If you cross the Atlantic Ocean in five days，your ship enters a different time zone every day. The time changes one hour with each zone you enter. Traveling west, you set your clock back; traveling east, you set it ahead. Each day of your trip has either twenty-five or twenty-three hours. If you travel by ship across the Pacific，you cross the international date line. By agreement, this marks a new day’s beginning. When you cross the line, you change your calendar one full day backward or forward. Today becomes yesterday as one crosses the line traveling east; it becomes tomorrow as one crosses it traveling west. Please begin reading after the beep. Task III: Answering Questions A tape shall pose each of the three questions TWICE. After the second reading, you will