2012年11月24日雅思口语机经[A类]

 

考试日期：	2012年11月24日
Part 1考题总结
考题总结：	Studies 1. Are you working or studying? 2. Tell me about the school or university you attend. 3. Tell me something about your primary school. 4. What is your major? 5. Do you like your major and why? 6. What courses or subjects do you study? 7. What is your favorite subject? 8. What is the most useful subject? 9. What would you like to do in the future? 10. What are the characteristics1 of schools in China? 11. What kinds of majors are available in China? 12. What do Chinese people think about teachers? 13. Is teaching2 a popular job in China, why or why not? Work 1. Are you working or studying? 2. What do you do for a living? 3. How long have you been doing this job? 4. Do you like your job, why or why not? 5. Do you find your job interesting? 6. What are your main responsibilities3 in your job? 7. Is working important to you? 8. Have you received any training related4 to your work? 9. Tell me about your boss or colleague5. 10. What would be your ideal6 job? 11. If you could choose another job, what would you choose? Hometown 1. Where are you from? 2. Where is your hometown? 3. Tell me about your hometown. 4. What’s your favorite thing or place in your hometown? 5. What is famous about your hometown? 6. Tell me about some scenic7 spots in your hometown. 7. What are the main places of interest in your hometown? What places should foreigners visit in 8. Do you like your hometown? Why or why not? 9. What is the difference between your hometown and Beijing? 10. What are the people like in your hometown? 11. If you could change one thing about your hometown, what would it be? 12. What attractive8 pieces of architecture9 are there in your hometown? 13. Is your hometown a good place for young people to live? Internet 1. Do you often use the internet? 2. How do you go onto the internet? 3. Where do you go onto the internet? 4. What do you do on the internet? 5. Is the internet very popular in China? 6. How can people learn things on the internet? Leisure10 time 1. What do you do in your spare time? 2. How do you usually spend your evenings? 3. Do you prefer to staying at home in the evenings or do you prefer to going out? Mobile11 Phones 1. Do you use a cell12 phone? 2. What do you use it for? 3. How often do you use it? 4. Do you like to send short message? 5. When did you get your first mobile phone? 6. How did you feel when you got your first mobile phone? 7. What feature or function of your cell phone do you like the best? 8. Is there anything you dislike about using cell phones? Museum 1. Are there any famous museums in your hometown/country? 2. Do you think museums are useful for visitors to your hometown/country? 3. Do you often visit a museum? 4. Did you go to any museums when you were a child? 5. When was the last time you visited a museum? 6. Do you think museums are important? 7. Do you think it’s suitable13 for museums to sell things to visitors? Name 1. What’s your name? 2. Does your name have any special meaning or significance14? 3. Have you ever changed your name, why or why not? 4. Do Chinese people like changing their names, why or why not? 5. What kind of people like changing their names? 6. What’s their purpose in changing their names? 7. In your culture, do women change their names when they get married? Photography15 1. Do you like photography and why? 2. When did you start to like photography? 3. Do you keep your old photos? 4. Do you often see those old photos? 5. What’s the meaning of keeping old photos? 6. What is your most impressive16 photo? Schools 1. What was the first school you attended? 2. Where was it? 3. Was it far from your home? 4. How did you go to school? 5. Did you like your school? 6. What were the good things about that school? 7. Would you say it was a good school? 8. Would you send your child to that school? 9. What different types of schools have you been to? 10. Which school did you like the most, why? 11. Did your parents choose your university for you? Relatives 1. Do you have many relatives? 2. When you were a child, which of your relatives do you see most often or spend the most time with? 3. When you were a child, did you play more with your friends or with your relatives? 4. In the future, do you think you will have more opportunities to see your relatives than you do now? 5. Who do you feel is the most important member of your family? 6. Who do you feel is the most important relative?   Shopping 1. Do you like shopping or window shopping? 2. Where do you often go shopping? 3. How often do you go shopping in a week? 4. Do you usually do your shopping at one place or at different places? 5. What kinds of shops are there near your home? 6. Do you pay more attention to price or quality? 7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of online shopping? Sports 1. What sports do you like best? 2. Do you like doing sports, why or why not? 3. Are there any sports facilities near your home? 4. How do sports affect people’s lives? 5. What is the most popular sport in your country? 6. How often do you do sports? 7. Do you think primary school children should have sports classes at school, why or why not? 8. What are the benefits17 of sports for a country? 9. Is it important for a country to hold Olympic Games, why or why not? 10. What kind of sport do you enjoy watching? Time management 1. How do you organize your time? 2. Do you think young people and older people organize their time in the same way? 3. Would you say you manage your time well? 4. Where did you learn how to organize your time? 5. How do you think you could better your time? 6. Do you think it’s useful to plan your time? 7. Have you ever been late for anything? 8. If you had more time, what would you do with the extra time? Toys 1. What toys did you like to play when you were a child? 2. Do you think you learned18 anything from playing with toys? 3. Did you prefer to play with those toys alone or with other children? 4. If you had children, what toys would you give them? Weather and Climate 1. What type of weather do you like? 2. What type of weather do Chinese people usually like? 3. Which is your favorite season? 4. Do you do different things in summer and in winter? 5. What do you often do on sunny and rainy days? 6. What is the weather like in your city? 7. Do you have some ways to control the global19 warming? Wedding 1. What is a typical Chinese wedding like? 2. What people are usually involved in a wedding? 3. What clothes do groom20 and bride usually wear? 4. What happens during the wedding? 5. Are wedding important in China, and why? 6. How wedding ceremony has changed over there years?   Weekends 1. What do you do in your spare time? 2. How do you spend time with your family? 3. What do you usually do on weekends? 4. What did you do last weekend? 5. What do other people in your country usually do on weekends? 6. What are you going to do next weekend? 7. Do you think it is important to make the most of your weekend? 8. Do you feel that weekends now are more important to you than when you were a child? Art 1. Are you very interested in art? 2. Did you create any art such as painting or sculpture21 when you were a child? 3. Have you ever been to an art gallery or an art exhibition? 4. How often do you visit art galleries? Bags 1. What types of bags do you use in your everyday life? 2. What do you put in these bags? 3. Do you usually carry a bag when you go out? 4. What sorts of bags do women like to buy? 5. When you are buying a bag, what factors22 do you consider? 6. Do you think the style of a bag is very important, why or why not? 7. Do you have a bag for special occasions23? Birthdays 1. Do you like birthdays? 2. Do people in China celebrate birthdays? 3. Are any birthdays especially important in your country? 4. How do Chinese people celebrate birthdays? 5. How do you like to celebrate your birthday? 6. Do people in China have birthday parties, why or why not? 7. Do you prefer birthday parties with your friends or with your family? 8. Do you think it’s important for people to celebrate birthdays? 9. Do you think it’s important to give a special gift to someone on their birthday? 10. Are birthdays more important for children or for adults? 11. Do children and adults celebrate birthdays the same way? 12. What do children do when they have a birthday party? Cards 1. Do you ever receive letters or cards? 2. Which do you think is better, to send a postcard or a letter? 3. Do you think it is important to send postcard to each other, why or why not? Driving and Cars 1. Do you or your family have a car? 2. Do you know how to drive a car? 3. When did you get your driver’s license24? 4. Do you think it’s important to learn how to drive? 5. Do you think it’s important to pay attention to safety when driving? 6. Do high schools in your country have driving classes, why or why not? 7. Do you think it’s important to have driving classes at school? Clothes 1. What kind of clothes do you like? 2. How do you get information about latest fashion? 3. What are the differences in the clothes between now and fifty years ago? 4. How do older people feel about younger people’s clothes? 5. What kind of clothes do children usually wear? 6. What are the most fashionable25 clothes in China now? Colors 1. What’s your favorite color, and why? 2. Do you always wear clothes in your favorite color? 3. Are there any colors that have a special meaning in your country? 4. What color would you choose to paint the walls of your room? 5. What kind of color do you dislike? Dance 1. Do you like to dance? 2. What type of dance are you interested in? 3. What are the differences between the dances the old people like and the dances the young people like? 4. Is dancing good to people? 5. Does China have any traditional dance? 6. Is traditional dance still popular in China? Entertainment 1. What do you do for entertainment? 2. What did you do for entertainment when you were a child? 3. What do other people do for entertainment around where you live? 4. What choices for entertainment are there for young people around where you live? 5. Are there any entertainment places near your school? 6. Have you recently been to any place for entertainment? 7. Do you think modern lifestyles give people enough time for entertainment? Flower 1. Do you like flowers? 2. What are the most popular flowers in China? 3. On what occasions do Chinese people send flowers to others? 4. What special meanings do flowers have? 5. What is the national flower in China? And do you like it or not? 6. Do you know how to grow flowers? Food 1. Which do you prefer to eat, lunch or dinner, and why? 2. Do you think there are any benefits from eating breakfast? 3. Are you willing26 to try some new food? 4. Which do you prefer, eating one big meal or eating several small snacks? 5. What do you consider to be a healthy diet? 6. In the past few years, have there been any changes to what people in your country eat? Friends and Family 1. Do you have many close friends? 2. What qualities make them good friends? 3. Do you live with your family? 4. Do your family and friends still live in your hometown? 5. Do you think family members should live together, why or why not? 6. When do you spend time with your family? 7. What do you do together? 8. Do you often go out with your friends? 9. Is your family very important to you? 10. Do you prefer to spend time with your family or your friends? 11. What do you do in your free time with your friends? 12. Are there any times when you prefer to be alone? Healthy Lifestyle 1. What do you do to keep healthy? 2. How can people maintain27 good health? 3. What is a healthy lifestyle in your mind? 4. Is there any sport that you would like to try in the future?

1 characteristics   

n.特性，特征，特色，[数]（对数的）首数( characteristic的名词复数 )；独特性；性质

参考例句：

• the textural characteristics of the rocks 岩石的纹理特征
• Men have ascribed their own characteristics to their gods. 人们认为他们的特性属于诸神。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

3 responsibilities   

责任( responsibility的名词复数 )； 职责； 责任感； 责任心

参考例句：

• the disproportion between the extra responsibilities and the small salary increase 额外的责任与小幅增加的薪金之间的不相称
• The job encompasses a wide range of responsibilities. 这项工作涉及的职责范围很广。

4 related   

adj.有关系的，有关联的，叙述的，讲述的

参考例句：

• I am not related to him in any way.我和他无任何关系。
• We spent days going through all related reference material.我们花了好多天功夫查阅所有有关的参考资料。

5 colleague   

n.同僚，同事

参考例句：

• He is a colleague of mine.他是我的同事。
• The professor paid a return visit to his American colleague.教授回访了他的美国同事。

6 ideal   

adj.理想的，完美的；空想的，观念的；n.理想

参考例句：

• The weather at the seaside was ideal—bright and breezy.海边的天气最宜人，风和日丽的。
• They promised to be faithful to their ideal for ever. 他们保证永远忠于自己的理想。

7 scenic   

adj.自然景色的，景色优美的

参考例句：

• The scenic beauty of the place entranced the visitors.这里的美丽风光把游客们迷住了。
• The scenic spot is on northwestern outskirts of Beijing.这个风景区位于北京的西北远郊。

8 attractive   

adj.有吸引力的；引起注意的

参考例句：

• Bright colours are attractive to children.鲜艳的颜色对儿童有吸引力。
• The food has an attractive taste.这食品的味道很诱人。

9 architecture   

n.建筑学，建筑术；建筑物；组织，结构

参考例句：

• I'm interested in classical architecture.我喜爱古典建筑风格。
• She studied architecture and art history at the university.她在大学里学习建筑和艺术史。

10 leisure   

n.空闲时间，空暇；悠闲，安逸

参考例句：

• I am seldom at leisure.我很少有空。
• He read books at his leisure.他在空闲时读一些书。

11 mobile   

adj.可移动的，易变的，机动的；n.运动物体

参考例句：

• The old lady sits on a mobile chair every morning.那位老妇人每天上午坐在一把可携带使用的椅子上。
• She's much more mobile now that she's bought a car.自从她买了汽车后，活动量就大多了。

12 cell   

n.区，细胞，血球；小室，牢房；电池，光电管；基层组织

参考例句：

• Soap destroys the cell walls of bacteria.肥皂破坏细菌的细胞壁。
• They have locked the prisoners up in their cell.他们已把犯人监禁在小牢房里。

13 suitable   

adj.合适的，适当的，适宜的

参考例句：

• Tomorrow will be quite suitable.明天挺合适。
• Is she suitable for the job?她适于做这工作吗？

14 significance   

n.意义，含义；重要性，重大

参考例句：

• This fact has little significance for us.这一事实对我们没有什么意义。
• This is a matter of great significance.这是一个具有重大意义的问题。

15 photography   

n.摄影，摄影术

参考例句：

• He goes in for photography.他酷爱摄影。
• Photography is not taught in our school.我们学校不教摄影术。

16 impressive   

adj.给人深刻印象的，感人的

参考例句：

• This cinema is so impressive that we can't help crying.这影片如此感人以至我们禁不住流下泪来。
• The suit made him look especially impressive.他穿上这套衣服真精神。

17 benefits   

n.津贴费；利益( benefit的名词复数 )；（给职工的）奖金；救济金；益处

参考例句：

• economic benefits accruing to the country from tourism 旅游业为该国带来的经济效益
• The article enthused about the benefits that the new system would bring. 本文热情赞扬了新制度将带来的好处。

18 learned   

adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
• In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。

19 global   

adj.全球的；球形的；世界的

参考例句：

• A global environmental meeting is going to be held here.一个全球环境会议将在这里举行。
• The report takes a global view of the company's problems.这份报告对公司的问题作了综合性的论述。

20 groom   

vt.给（马、狗等）梳毛，照料，使...整洁

参考例句：

• His father was a groom.他父亲曾是个马夫。
• George was already being groomed for the top job.为承担这份高级工作，乔治已在接受专门的培训。

21 sculpture   

n.雕刻，雕塑；vt.雕刻，雕塑；vi.当雕刻师

参考例句：

• He is skilled in sculpture.他精于雕刻。
• His sculpture of a horse won first prize.他雕塑的一匹马获得一等奖。

22 factors   

因素( factor的名词复数 )； 因子； （增或减的）数量； 系数

参考例句：

• Several factors have been adduced to explain the fall in the birth rate. 有几个因素已被援引来说明出生率降低的原因。
• a confluence of social factors 多种社会因素的汇集

23 occasions   

n.机会( occasion的名词复数 )；时刻；原因；需要

参考例句：

• The prosecution stated that intercourse had occurred on several occasions. 控诉方称发生过数次性交。
• He has been late on numerous occasions. 他已经迟到过无数次了。

24 license   

n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许

参考例句：

• The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
• The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。

25 fashionable   

adj.时髦的，上流社会的，流行的

参考例句：

• She is moving in fashionable circles in New York.她活动于纽约上流社会之中。
• We lunched in a fashionable restaurant.我们在一家上等的饭店吃午餐。

26 willing   

adj.愿意的，自愿的，乐意的，心甘情愿的

参考例句：

• We never lack food and clothing if we're willing to work.如果我们愿意工作,就不会缺吃少穿。
• He's quite willing to pay the price I ask.他很愿意照我的要价付钱。

27 maintain   

vt.支撑；赡养，抚养；维持，保有

参考例句：

• He has to maintain a large family on a small salary.他不得不依靠很少的工资养活一家人。
• We must do our best to maintain sales at their usual rate.我们要尽力使销售额保持在平日的水平上。