牛津上海版高三高考英语口试综合训练题

牛津上海版高三高考英语口试综合训练题

口试综合训练题 第一套 Part One: Read aloud the following passage. You will have one minute to prepare and thirty seconds to read. ‎ ‎ Several studies have shown that humor seems to help sick people get back their health faster. The idea is not new. But today, doctors are still trying to figure out exactly how this works. In some hospitals, doctors do scientific experiments with laughter. They show funny films like Mr. Bean to patients who have diseases to make them laugh. Actors dress up in silly clothes and tell funny jokes. Smiles and laughter seem to make illness less painful. In addition, the hospital atmosphere is more cheerful for everyone. ‎ Part Two: Make quick responses to the sentences you hear: ‎ 1. How do you go to school everyday? ‎ 2. Why don’t you wear that new coat? ‎ 3. Watch your steps, please. ‎ 4. Hey, please don’t use my dictionary without asking. ‎ 5. Oh, I’m really sorry, I’ve knocked over your tea. ‎ Part Three: Ask two questions about each situation given below. At least one special question should be asked about each situation: ‎ ‎(1-2) You want to buy a digital camera. You are now at the camera counter in a department store. You ask the shop assistant… ‎ ‎(3-4) Your friend Li Mei has just returned from her trip to Qingdao. You ask her … ‎ Part Four: ‎ Music is a language which speaks to everyone. But there are many different kinds of music, and it is impossible to describe them all. Here are just a few well known types.‎ Classical music is serious Western European music from the Middle Ages to the present and it is often written for a large or a small group of players. Classical music is very popular and schools often teach this type of music.‎ Jazz developed from the black people in the Southern States of America. Jazz brought classical music and African music patterns together.‎ Musicians in the U.S developed Rock and Roll music last century and it became popular with young people. ‎ Pop music developed from Rock and Roll and now it is the name used for most commercial music, i.e. music we can buy on records and hear on pop radio. ‎ Q1: How many types of music does the speaker mention?‎ Q2: What kind of music do you like best? Why?‎ Part Five: you will have one minute to prepare and another minute to talk about the following pictures in at least seven sentences. Begin your talk with the sentence given. ‎ ‎ Yesterday was Xiao Ming’s seventeenth birthday. ‎ 第二套 Part One: Read aloud the following passage. You will have one minute to prepare and thirty seconds to read. ‎ Everyone has his own way of relaxing. Perhaps the most popular way is to participate in sports. There are team sports, such as baseball, basketball and football. There are individual sports, also, such as golf and swimming. In addition, hiking, skiing, and mountain climbing ‎ have a great attraction for people who like to be outdoors. ‎ Not everyone who enjoys sports likes to participate in them. Many people prefer to be spectators, either by attending the games in person, or watching them on television. When there is an important baseball game or boxing match it is almost impossible to get tickets, everybody wants to attend. ‎ Part Two: Make quick responses to the sentences you hear: ‎ 1. How are things with you? ‎ 2. I must apologize for my behavior yesterday. ‎ 3. We’re having an outing on Saturday. I hope you can make it. ‎ 4. Which TV programme are you most interested in? ‎ 5. I wonder if you would agree with me. ‎ Part Three: Ask two questions about each situation given below. At least one special question should be asked about each situation: ‎ ‎(1-2) One of your friends asks you to go to a concert with him. Ask him two questions about the concert. ‎ ‎(3-4) You have moved to a new residential area recently and are not familiar with the neighbourhood. Ask your next-door neighbour two questions about … ‎ Part Four: ‎ It is common in Britain that people take up a hobby for their spare time. Hobbies can keep you entertained and busy when you’re not at work. But this idea is never popular among many other countries in the world. In those countries, people spend their free time simply resting or chatting. ‎ ‎ When people are asked why they’ve taken up a particular hobby they tend to give very different reasons. Some say that they feel they ought to do something useful in their spare time; others talk about self-improvement and the importance of learning to do something new. A very popular explanation is that it provides an opportunity to do something completely different from one’s usual work; some people say that if their hobby is an outdoor one, it is a means of making new friends and exchanging ideas. There are those, too, who say they need to do something creative because they’re bored with their jobs. Perhaps the most convincing reason is simply that a hobby brings much pleasure during free hours. ‎ 1. List two reasons why people take up a particular hobby.‎ 2. What is your hobby, and why do you take it?‎ Part Five: you will have one minute to prepare and another minute to talk about the following pictures in at least seven sentences. Begin your talk with the sentence given. ‎ Xiao Ming and Xiao Li are brother and sister. ‎ 第三套 Part One: Read aloud the following passage. You will have one minute to prepare and thirty seconds to read. ‎ Charlie’s mother noticed a key on the table. “Charlie,” she called, “your father left this key here today. Please hurry and take it to him. Run all the way – and don’t stop for anything.” ‎ Charlie went running down the path from his house. He started playing with the key, throwing it high in the air and jumping up to catch it again. Suddenly the key fell through his fingers, dropping to the ground, and rolled out of sight. ‎ He felt ashamed when he told his father about the lost key. Charlie’s father was angry and said, “You are very careless, my son. The next time you have something important to carry, put it in your pocket.” ‎ Part Two: Make quick responses to the sentences you hear: ‎ 1. May I speak to Mr. Johnson, the hotel manager? ‎ 2. Could I have two tickets for the Lion King for Friday night? ‎ 3. You ought not to be smoking here, sir. ‎ 4. If I were you, I’d sent him an email. ‎ 5. You’ve been doing a very good job in organizing the party. ‎ Part Three: Ask two questions about each situation given below. At least one special question should be asked about each situation: ‎ ‎(1-2) One of your classmates seems upset about something. Ask him two questions to show your concern. ‎ ‎(3-4) You are now working for the Students Union to enroll volunteers for the coming international conferences. One of your schoolmates wants to be a volunteer. Ask him two questions. ‎ Part Four: ‎ Do students in the United States receive too much homework? According to the National Education Association, a student should be given no more than 10 minutes per grade level per night. For example, a first grade student should only have 10 minutes of homework, a second grade student 20 minutes, and so on. Yet this is often doubled. ‎ ‎ It is not good to give students too much homework. According to research, kids are developing more school-related stomachaches, headaches and sleep problems than before. Everybody knows that teachers give homework, but they do not deserve all the blame. Many teachers are under greater pressure than ever before. Some pressure comes from parents and some from the desire for high scores on tests. Teachers who are under pressure feel the need to give more homework. ‎ ‎ Some people argue that homework prepares kids for performing better in high school, better in college, and getting a better job in the future. But too much homework is damaging students’ curiosity, and most importantly, their love of learning. Is that really what teachers and parents want? ‎ 1. According to the National Education Association, how long should a student spend on his homework?‎ 2. What’s your opinion on homework?‎ Part Five: you will have one minute to prepare and another minute to talk about the following pictures in at least seven sentences. Begin your talk with the sentence given. ‎ Zhang Chao came home happily the other day. ‎ 第四套 Part One: Read aloud the following passage. You will have one minute to prepare and thirty seconds to read. ‎ At last, after what seemed to us an age, the lifeboat reached the man and two of the sailors pulled him on board. This was not at all easy, for the sea was rather rough. Then the sailors began to row back to the ship again. The lifeboat was raised out of the water and the rescued man, wrapped in a blanket, was helped out on to the deck. Leaning on the arm of the ‎ ship’s doctor, but still able to walk in spite of his terrible experience, he was led off to the ship’s hospital. As he passed along the deck, everyone cheered loudly. ‎ Part Two: Make quick responses to the sentences you hear: ‎ 1. What do you think of taking a summer English course in Britain? ‎ 2. How is your cousin? I haven’t seen her for ages. ‎ 3. I don’t know how to use this fax machine. ‎ 4. Can you tell me what time it is now? ‎ 5. I regret that I quarreled with my roommate last night. ‎ Part Three: Ask two questions about each situation given below. At least one special question should be asked about each situation: ‎ ‎(1-2) You want to buy a new pair of sports shoes. Ask the shop assistant two questions about the shoes. ‎ ‎(3-4) Your friend has just transferred to a new school. Ask your friend two questions about the school. ‎ Part Four: ‎ The number of cities in the world is increasing. Small cities are expanding and large cities are developing more rapidly. Why? ‎ There are many causes for the rapid expansion of cities. First, all cities offer a variety of conveniences. Transportation and telecommunication are well developed. Cars, buses, trains and public telephones are always available. In large cities, flights can fly you to different cities, and underground trains can take you to various places in a city. Also, shops, markets and supermarkets are everywhere so that you find it convenient to go shopping; all kinds of restaurants provide you with various delicious foods. Next, people in cities can live a colorful life by enjoying a great variety of leisure time amusements. They can see films, watch performances, and visit museums and exhibitions. Quite often they can watch sports games. Also, with new factories, new enterprises, new institutions and new buildings everywhere, there are more jobs open to different people, with higher wages or more pay for the same profession or occupation. All these advantages, therefore, attract large numbers of people to cities.‎ 1. Why the number of cities is increasing?‎ 2. Do you like city life or country life?‎ Part Five: you will have one minute to prepare and another minute to talk about the following pictures in at least seven sentences. Begin your talk with the sentence given. ‎ One day a frog jumps out of the well in order to have a look at the world … ‎ 第五套 Part One: Read aloud the following passage. You will have one minute to prepare and thirty seconds to read. ‎ Working long hours can greatly increase the risk of suffering injury or illness, a recent risk study says. Workers who do overtime were 61% more likely to become hurt or ill, once factors such as age and so on were taken into account. And working more than 12 hours a day raised the risk by more than a third, one of the universities in Chicago found. According to their report, risk increased with longer working hours, not just in dangerous jobs, but in all types of work. ‎ Part Two: Make quick responses to the sentences you hear: ‎ 1. Sorry to trouble you, but do you happen to know when the lecture begins? ‎ 1. What do you think of the film directed by the young director? ‎ 2. I will get my doctor’s degree next week. ‎ 3. What is Hangzhou most famous for? ‎ 4. A new chain shop of the shopping mall will open soon in our community. ‎ Part Three: Ask two questions about each situation given below. At least one special question should be asked about each situation: ‎ ‎(1-2) Your famous schoolmate is going to see a new film. He invites you to go with him. You ask him two questions about this. ‎ ‎(3-4) Your class has a new comer from another school this term. You ask the new comer two questions. ‎ Part Four: ‎ Part Five: ‎ On his way to work, Tom saw an old man knocked down by a bike. ‎ 第六套 Part One: Read aloud the following passage. You will have one minute to prepare and thirty seconds to read. ‎ The new Harry Potter book “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” sold an astonishing 6.9 million copies in its first 24 hours, breaking the record held by the previous release. “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” averaged better than 250,000 sales per hour, more than most books sell in a lifetime. Some other writers, even the most popular ones of adult fiction, sell no more than 20,000 books in the first week of sale. ‎ Part Two: Make quick responses to the sentences you hear: ‎ 1. My name is Li Xiaoming. Nice to meet you. ‎ 2. What have you been busy with these days? ‎ 3. Can you help me move into my new apartment tomorrow? ‎ 4. I really must be going now, because I have classes in the early morning. ‎ 5. Children should spend more time outdoors and less time watching TV. ‎ Part Three: Ask two questions about each situation given below. At least one special question should be asked about each situation: ‎ ‎(1-2) One of your relatives had an accident on her way home. You ask two questions about it. ‎ ‎(3-4) Henry wants to further his studies in a vocational school. Ask him two questions about this. ‎ Part Four: ‎ I believe there are many things that we can do to make life in our town a lot better for teenagers. First of all, I think that our town needs more cycle lanes. A lot of teenagers in my town ride bicycles everywhere, but it’s very dangerous because there is a lot of traffic. If there are more cycle lanes in the future, it will be much safer for us. Also, I believe that we need more places for teenagers to go to. In my opinion, we need more clubs and other places where we can meet. Teenagers won’t cause problems in the street if there are more places for us to go to. In addition, teenagers here need more sports facilities. There are places to play ball games like tennis and football but what about other sports like skating? Finally, I’m sure we will make the town better if we don’t litter! We should put rubbish in the right place, and our streets will be tidier and cleaner. If we all do something to help now, our town will be much better for teenagers in the future. ‎ 1. According to the speaker, what can people do to make the town a better place for teenagers?‎ 2. As a teenager, what can you do to make the city or town a better place?‎ Part Five: you will have one minutes to prepare and another minute to talk about the following pictures in at least seven sentences. Begin your talk with the sentence given. ‎ LiLin’s parents always read his diary without permission in order to know more about his thoughts. ‎ 第七套 Part One: Read aloud the following passage. You will have one minute to prepare and thirty seconds to read. ‎ Indians are the world’s biggest bookworms, reading on average 10.7 hours a week, twice as long as Americans, according to a new survey. The NOP World Culture Score index surveyed 30,000 people in 30 countries from December 2019 to February 2019. Experts said the desire to read could explain India’s high figures. Time spent on reading meant fewer hours watching TV and listening to the radio – India cam fourth last in both. The survey saw China take second place and the Philippines take third in average hours a week, spent reading books, newspapers and magazines. ‎ Part Two: Make quick responses to the sentences you hear: ‎ 1. I’m sorry, but you are really making too much noise! ‎ 2. You look so upset! What’s the matter with you? ‎ 3. Mary. I’ve got the first prize in the municipal speech contest!‎ 4. What do you think of the fairy tale Beauty and Beast? ‎ 5. There is not much milk in the refrigerator. ‎ Part Three: Ask two questions about each situation given below. At least one special question should be asked about each situation: ‎ ‎(1-2) You work as a receptionist at a hotel. One customer called to book a room. Ask two questions about it. ‎ ‎(3-4) You were put in a new class and you tried hard to build up a good relationship with your classmates, but failed. Ask your class teacher for help. ‎ Part Four: ‎ Parents show their love towards their children in different ways because of their different views of life. Generally speaking, parents can be classified into three types: the authority type, the servant type and the friend type.‎ The authority type of parents is self-centered. They lay down regulations in the family for their children to follow. They insist that their children should act upon them without question. They have little respect for their children’s opinions.‎ The servant type parents are soft and easy-going. They never deny their children any wish, and cheerfully run to buy anything their children ask for. With a belief that love means sacrifice, they are ready to give up anything for their children.‎ The friend-type parents, as the term implies, treat their children as friends. They discuss with their children the latest news, share their children’s interests and are aware of their children’s emotions. They respect their children as their equals. A free, friendly and sympathetic atmosphere at home is most favorable to the development of youngsters both in body and mind. ‎ 1. What do the servant type parents refer to?‎ 2. Which type of parents do you prefer? Why?‎ Part Five: you will have one minute to prepare and another minute to talk about the following pictures in at least seven sentences. Begin your talk with the sentence given. ‎ One day, Catherine, a sailing lover, set out from the coast in a small boat to cross the Channel. ‎ 第八套 Part One: Read aloud the following passage. You will have one minute to prepare and thirty seconds to read. ‎ A rich young man decided to do some diving in the sea, so he bought a rubber suit, and took some lessons at a diving school. Then one day, he walked into the water and began to explore the bottom of the sea. ‎ He suddenly saw a man waving his arms and legs around wildly near the bottom of the sea. He was only wearing a bathing suit. ‎ The rich young man was very surprised to see him, so he took out a plastic notebook and a special pencil and wrote “What are you doing?” ‎ The other man took the pencil and wrote “Drowning!” ‎ Part Two: Make quick responses to the sentences you hear: ‎ 1. Would you like to try some of the cakes my mum made. ‎ 2. I don’t think that film is interesting. ‎ 3. This is nice, but it’s too expensive. Could you make it 30 yuan? ‎ 4. Wendy, come downstairs and help in the kitchen. ‎ 5. How often do you usually go shopping? ‎ Part Three: Ask two questions about each situation given below. At least one special question should be asked about each situation: ‎ ‎(1-2) You plan to visit Tibet during your summer vacation and one of your classmates has been there. Ask him for advice on your trip. ‎ ‎(3-4) You are going to write an article on space flight, so you want to borrow some reference book from the library. Ask the librarians for help. ‎ Part Four: ‎ Beginning in your junior year of high school, many students start thinking of where they ‎ would like to go to college. There are many things to take into consideration and I’ll discuss three of them today. First, you should consider which schools offer the best instruction in the field you wish to follow. For example, if you are interested in chemistry, you should think carefully and find out which schools offer the best instruction in the field of chemistry. The second thing to consider is the cost of your studies. Tuition costs, or money you pay to go to college, have been rising for the past several years. If you don’t have access to sufficient funds, there are many scholarships available to help you lower the high cost of education. You can apply for these scholarships available in sports, for academic achievement, or for certain fields of study. The last thing to consider is location, which is closely tied to the cost of college. The location of the college could change what you have to pay for living expenses, such as food and housing. ‎ 1. What are the three factors you should take into consideration when you apply to a college?‎ 2. Which major do you want to choose? Why?‎ Part Five: you will have one minute to prepare and another minute to talk about the following pictures in at least seven sentences. Begin your talk with the sentence given. ‎ One day, Tom saw some boys playing football in the street. ‎