口语试题（通用）Book4.doc

口试题目Book 4（通用）

Look at the picture. The topic for our discussion today is “XXXX”. I’d like you to work together, describe it, and then tell each other what you think about the phenomenon. It is not necessary to agree with each other. You have 5 minutes for this task. The words and expressions are for your reference. Will you begin now, please?

1. 用网脑，省人脑。
Useful Words and Expressions:

copy, reduce, easier and more convenient, effortlessly, to seek assistance, key to an exercise, be indispensable to, negative, academic cheating/dishonesty/plagiarizing, to play an important role, to rely too much on, dangerous, tool, creativity, on one’s own

2. 我爱团购
Useful Words and Expressions:

group buying, online shopping, fashion, to save time, popularity, inexpensive, bulk discount, convenient and comfortable, delivery, face to face deal, less reliable, quality, damage, compulsive

3. 青春永驻
Useful Words and Expressions:

mooncake, preservative, never grow old, food safety, to stay forever young, profit-driven, preservatives, guarantee period, reflect, food crisis/safety, to take effective measures, supervise, moral conscience, moral deficiency, ignore, corporate responsibility

4. 难题
Useful Words and Expressions:

be distressed about, to play mahjong, to indulge in, responsibility, to set a good example for, be obssessed with, to ignore the children’s learning, to create a good environment, role models, to exert positive/negative influence

5. 强索报酬 道德堪忧
Useful Words and Expressions:

moreal sense, law, honesty, reward, decline, moral degeneration, to wring sth, out of someone, awareness, going downhill, to extol the virtues of, be measured by money

6. 限广令
Useful Words and Expressions:

ban on TV commercials, entertainment, a powerful tool, to promote products, fake advertising, false promise, interrupt, waste of precious time, to provide a much needed break from the shows, go to the bathroom, to lower the cost of, embeded, product placement(植入式广告), blind advertising

7. 孩子古道热肠，家长担心
Useful Words and Expressions:

warm-hearted, enthusiastic, indifferent, selfish, be worried about, to derive great satisfaction from, sympathy, Lei Feng’s spirit, source of happiness, to tell from, to distinguish good from evil, to watch out, be on guard against, self protection, public morals

8. 并非上帝
Useful Words and Expressions:

refund, Customers First, Christ, greed for money, nearsighted, mean and mercenary, shabby goods, fake commodities, after-sale service, increasing important, to improve the quality of, durable goods, customer loyalty, long-term development

9. 信用卡低龄化
Useful Words and Expressions:

Credit cards, convenient, a trend towards younger age, trap, overdraft, to exceed credit limit, impulse-buying, budget, to fall behind with repayment, be overburdened by debts, high interest, crisis

10. 乘船安全
Useful Words and Expressions:

jerry-built projects, corruption, waste both money and manpower, image/achievement project, embezzlement, bribery, jeopardize, reinforce, taxpayer, supervision mechanism

11. 大学生占座
Useful Words and Expressions:

to reserve/occupy seats, ubiquitous, taken, unfair, national post-graduate entrance examination, awfully selfish behavior, limited resources, zest for study, First come, First Served. justify the legitimate ownership of the seats, be enthusiastic about study, never to turn up, negative effects, university authorities, more reading rooms to satisfy students’ needs, regulation, moral sense

12. 就业方向
Useful Words and Expressions:

job hunting, to seek a job, first-tier cities, more opportunities, career development, to broaden one’s horizon, higher salary, temptation, a small fish in a big pond or the other way round, promotion, competitive, high living costs, heavy work pressure, the fast pace of life, living expenses, the housing problem

13. 白富美、高帅富
Useful Words and Expressions:

ideal partner, high standards, to thirst for, adore, appointment, to aspire towards, attractive, physical appearance, charming stature, financially successful, wealthy, villa, amiable character, perfect match, romantic, realistic, harsh reality, vanity, superficial, naked marriage, To a destitute couple nothing goes well.

14. 临时工挡箭牌
Useful Words and Expressions:

casual laborer, temporary workers, arrow, pretext, excuse, negligence of duties, production safety accident, willful misconduct, to shirk responsibility, to assume primary responsibility, disadvantaged groups, law-enforcing departments, risk reduction

15. 难得休息
Useful Words and Expressions:

to have a drip, sickbed, heavily burdened, lighten, the primary and secondary schools, exam-oriented education, remedial classes, expectations, quality-oriented education, stay up, midnight, poor health, insufficient sleep, tired of learning, drop out of school, suicide

16. 拆迁与维权
Useful Words and Expressions:

demolishment and removal, to make way for, real estate, property developer, nail households, to hold out, to pull/tear down, relocation compensation scheme, to demolish a building, to relocate the inhabitants, to defend/maintain legal rights and interests, sustainable development, to build a harmonious society

17. 传统文化不能丢
Useful Words and Expressions:

traditional culture, heavy use of computer, mouse, brush pen, to fade out, revive, out of date, calligraphy, a heritage from the ancestors, inherit, electronic input systems, have difficulty writing characters, character amnesia

18. 文明作案
Useful Words and Expressions:

theft, mail, to send by post, credentials, ID card, ironic, Even thieves have principles. Even robbers have a code of conduct.

19. 救还是不救
Useful Words and Expressions:

to lay unconscious/injured in the street, To be or not to be. Grim Reaper, spark, condemnation and soul-searching, to fail to help the victims, moral degeneration, the high-profile 2006 case of Peng Yu(彭宇), to distroy the kindness of a whole nation, for fear of being blamed for, to be accused of, to face trial, indifference, to be hailed as a hero, to sing high praise of, to establish a reward system, moral development

20. 旅游陷阱
Useful Words and Expressions:

tourist trap, the improvement of people’s life, quality of life, traveling craze/boom, false advertising, pseudo propaganda, professional ethics, tourist/shopping guide, reinforce, heavy penalty, to penalize, supervision departments, healthy development