2007年专业四级口语考试试题.pdfVIP

2007 年真题 Task 1: Retell a story Anne was a science teacher in a primary sch l. She loved her job and believed very strongly in practical work as a means of teaching science effectively. Once she decided to show her pupils’ parents how well their children were learning. To demonstrate the effectiveness of her methods she invited all the parents to come to the school to see the results of one of the children’s experiments. She scheduled this event for a Saturday evening, so all of the parents would be sure to come. The children were studying how plants grow. To see this process for themselves the students had planted four pots of beans. They had put p r soil in one pot to see what effect this would have on the growth of the beans. The other three pots of beans had g d soil, but one pot had been placed in a dark r m for several days and another pot was not watered for the same length of time. In this way the children were learning the effects of soil, water and sunlight on the growth of plants. At the end of the lesson on Friday aftern n, Anne put labels on the four pots. One label said, “The beans in this pot were planted in poor soil.” Another one said, “This pot has been kept in the dark for four days.” The third label read, “These beans have had no water for four days.” And the last one went like this: “These beans have had good soil, plenty of light and regular water.” Then she went home. She returned to sch l on Saturday evening, half an hour before the parents were due to come. She was surprised t find a note beside the pots. It said: “We read your notes to the school cleaning staff and decided to help them with your plants, so we watered all the plants, changed the earth in one with p r soil, and left the light on above the one that had been left in the dark for four days. We hope that the plants will now grow bett