上海政法学院
《大学英语2》 口语试卷 （考生用）
第一套
(Unit One, Book Two)
Task One Reading Aloud (5 points)
Directions: Read the following paragraphs. Please pay attention to your pronunciation, intonation and fluency.
(Student 1) She plunged into the paints and before I knew it, she had swept several fierce strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely terrified canvas. Anyone could see it could not hit back. I hesitated no more. I seized the largest brush and fell upon my wretched victim with wild fury. I have never felt any fear of a canvas since.
(Student 2) Historians have called the decade after 1929, when Winston again fell from office, his barren years. Politically barren they may have been, as his lonely voice struggled to awaken Britain to the menace of Hitler, but artistically those years bore abundant fruit: of the 500-odd Churchill canvases in existence, roughly half date from 1930 to 1939.
Task Two Answering Questions (10 points)
Directions: Answer the questions related to the paragraphs you’ve read. Please pay attention to your pronunciation, intonation, fluency, grammar and logic.
Task Three Discussion (10 points)
Directions: Discuss the following topic with your partner(s). This is a group activity and you need to interact with your partner(s). Your performance will be judged according to your contribution to the group work.
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上海政法学院
《大学英语1》 口语试卷 （考生用）
第二套
(Unit Two, Book Two)
Task One Reading Aloud (5 points)
Directions: Read the following paragraphs. Please pay attention to your pronunciation, intonation and fluency.
(Student 1) This belief in hard work is the first of three main factors contributing to Asian students’ outstanding performance. It springs from Asians’ common heritage of Confucianism, the philosophy of the 5th-century-BC Chinese sage whose teachings have had a profound influence on Chinese society. One of Confucius’s primary teachings is that through effort, people can perfect themselves.
(Student 2) In Confucian philosophy, the family plays a central role — an orientation that leads people to work for the honor of the family, not just for themselves. One can never repay one’s parents, and there’s a sense of obligation or even guilt that is as strong a force among Asians as Protestant philosophy is among those in the West.
Task Two Answering Questions (10 points)
Directions: Answer the questions related to the paragraphs you’ve read. Please pay attention to your pronunciation, intonation, fluency, grammar and logic.
Task Three Discussion (10 points)
Directions: Discuss the following topic with your partner(s). This is a group activity and you need to interact with your partner(s). Your performance will be judged according to your contribution to the group work.
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上海政法学院
《大学英语2》 口语试卷 （考生用）
第三套
(Unit Three, Book Two)
Task One Reading Aloud (5 points)
Directions: Read the following paragraphs. Please pay attention to your pronunciation, intonation and fluency.
(Student 1) The company had just started a joint venture with a Japanese firm, and the American management needed someone to train the Japanese employees in its unique technology. George’s solid understanding of the equipment, its installation and use made him the best-qualified employee for the job, so everyone was happy when George accepted a two-year contract for temporary transfer to Japan.
(Student 2) When the American managers visited Japan, George accompanied us everywhere to ensure that we don’t do or say anything too stupid from the Japanese viewpoint. Whenever we did that anyway, he came to the rescue at once. Whole multitudes of difficulties never arose thanks to George’s skill at smoothing over small conflicts before they became big, emotional and costly.
Task Two Answering Questions (10 points)
Directions: Answer the questions related to the paragraphs you’ve read. Please pay attention to your pronunciation, intonation, fluency, grammar and logic.
Task Three Discussion (10 points)
Directions: Discuss the following topic with your partner(s). This is a group activity and you need to interact with your partner(s). Your performance will be judged according to your contribution to the group work.
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上海政法学院
《大学英语2》 口语试卷 （考生用）
第四套
(Unit Four, Book Two)
Task One Reading Aloud (5 points)
Directions: Read the following paragraphs. Please pay attention to your pronunciation, intonation and fluency.
(Student 1) We assume that everyone is either a success or a failure when, in fact, infinite degrees of both are possible. As Hayakawa points out, there’s a world of difference between “I have failed three times” and “I am a failure.” Indeed, the words failure and success cannot be reasonably applied to a complex, living, changing human being.
(Student 2) Success, which encourages repetition of old behavior, is not nearly as good a teacher as failure. You can learn from a disastrous party how to give a good one, from an ill-chosen first house what to look for in a second. Even a failure that seems total can prompt fresh thinking, a change of direction.
Task Two Answering Questions (10 points)
Directions: Answer the questions related to the paragraphs you’ve read. Please pay attention to your pronunciation, intonation, fluency, grammar and logic.
Task Three Discussion (10 points)
Directions: Discuss the following topic with your partner(s). This is a group activity and you need to interact with your partner(s). Your performance will be judged according to your contribution to the group work.
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上海政法学院
《大学英语2》 口语试卷 （考生用）
第五套
(Unit Five, Book Two)
Task One Reading Aloud (5 points)
Directions: Read the following paragraphs. Please pay attention to your pronunciation, intonation and fluency.
(Student 1) Balancing work and school was difficult. “I was staying up late studying, and going to work early every morning. I was having a hard time concentrating in class, and a hard time on the job because I was so tired,” she says. But she ended up with two A’s in her first semester anyway.
(Student 2) Priscilla decided to pursue an archaeology major, and in the summer of 1992, she got her first opportunity to really test out her interest in the subject. The archaeological field school of Washington State University was sponsoring a summer research project at a site alongside the Snake River in Washington. Priscilla threw herself into the work, and the project supervisors were impressed.
Task Two Answering Questions (10 points)
Directions: Answer the questions related to the paragraphs you’ve read. Please pay attention to your pronunciation, intonation, fluency, grammar and logic.
Task Three Discussion (10 points)
Directions: Discuss the following topic with your partner(s). This is a group activity and you need to interact with your partner(s). Your performance will be judged according to your contribution to the group work.
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