大学英语听说IV级口语考试题目（十三周考试用）1.Some people like to travel with a companion. Other people prefer to travel alone. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.If you were to travel, would you want to be with a companion or alone? Some might say they would want to travel alone. However, I have an opposite opinion. I think it is better to travel with a companion for the following reasons, they can give us information about the place, we won’t feel boring if we travel together, and we can have opportunities to meet more people through a companion.People travel around some places to get information about the specific areas. To get the information about the place, we need a guide. If we hire a guide, we should pay money and we will somewhat not be free to go anywhere. Despite that, if we travel with friends, they could tell us about it as a guide. We can save money and get some information about the place that we visit. In addition, we could be free to go anywhere we want.As t o the second point, if we travel with friends, we wouldn’t fell tedious while traveling. We can talk to each other and get chances to know each other more. On the other hand, traveling alone could make us feel down because it is quite boring to hang around by themselves. Thus, I would prefer traveling with a companion to alone.Besides, the second point, if we travel with a companion, we can get more opportunities to meet other people through my friends. For example, when I was 10 years old, I went to china. I have met a lot of people through my friend there and I’m still keeping in touch with them. If I didn’t go to china with my friend, I could have not met them in my life. This is the final reason why I think it is better to travel with friends rather alone.To conclude, some people might say it is better to travel alone because it might interrupt us if we travel with a companion. Nevertheless, I think it would be better to travel with a companion for the previous reasons, they can tell us some information about the place, we can enjoy more because it’s not boring, and we could get opportunities to meet many people through friends.2.Some people like to do only what they already do well. Other people prefer to try new things and take risks. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice. Many people like to do things that they already do well, many others like to take risks to do things new. Both sides are supported by good reasons. For my part, I think it depends on what kind of things that people in the face of. I prefer to do things that I already do well when I should do things to benefit the others. On the other hand, I would like to take risks to try something new in order to improve myself, that means I will be the person who benefit from what I do.People are all live in the society and have relationships with each other. So what one do can influence the others directly or indirectly. In this case, people should do their best to benefit and convenient for the others. If one does not have enough experience and skills to do things well, the people around them maybe complain or they will ruin their plan. Is it very nice to share their own risks to the others to get more experience for themselves? Absolutely not. The society or the smallgroups can run well only as all the members in it do the things they can do well.To benefit oneself, people should do something new. Nobody can learn more from the things they already familiar with. There are always much more challenges to do something new. But after overcoming all the difficulties, one can get more new knowledge or experience, and get themselves improved. No matter what the result it is, success or failure, the course always gives the leaner a great lesson. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. If one never takes any risks, one will never have any success.Personal experience leads me to conclude that if I do things to benefit others, I choose to do things I already do well, otherwise,I will choose to take risks to do things new. In that way, I can improve myself.3.Should a city try to preserve its old, historic buildings or destroy them and replace them with modern buildings? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.Old and historic buildings might have special significance for the nation's civilization. In my opini on, it could not be an advisable plan to establish modern buildings at the expense of old and histori c buildings. To the contrary, the location of modern buildings should avoid the potential demolish ment of old building with historic values. In other words, a government should put preserving old, historic buildings on the board as a prerequisite, when they decide to start new buildings.Some may point out that old, historic buildings are precarious and even dangerous for living. It ma y be the case. Long-term's erosion from wind and chemical render many antique buildings become lusterless and obsolete. So, as a result, they could be obstacles on achieving the consummation of a city's appearance.However, to some extent, old and historic buildings ought to possess special historical and cultural significances. For example, Pyramids in Egypt and South America have existed for over thousand s years, but the local government will not decide to pull down them to build anew city over there, due to the grand meaning of their historic and culture. Great Wall in North Ch ina is bound to be preserved carefully because it is also one of the Seven Tremendous Miracles of t he world. Obviously, it is the common sense that such antique buildings should not be destroyed. Some special buildings in a city which witness the progress of the city should not be destroyed or r eplaced by other modern buildings. One example in this case is German Cologne Cathedral. It loc ates in Cologne, Germany. Although it is old and lusterless, because of its religion significance, no one ever vote to replace it or destroy it. In my opinion, every city should more or less has some an tique buildings which can behalf or exhibit the city's history. Considering these buildings which ho ld special meanings, they will definitely be protected instead of being sabotaged.With regard to other minor antique buildings, even if they may have less significance than large-sc ale buildings like Cologne Cathedral, we also should protect it or renovate it at least, because destr oying an old buildings might means the disavowal of our own culture. In my point of view, I assu me that modern buildings' design and construction should follow the sustainable and green-low-w aste criteria. Every new building's setting up must base local topography and environment conditio ns. Replacing an old building sometimes is not necessary.I must mention that in some cities, there are some illegal obsolete buildings and precarious old she lters. In this case, governments must end them.To sum up, antique buildings with historic significance should be preserved, and other old buildings which lose their functions should be renovated by modern methods4.Some people think that the automobile has improved modern life. Others think that the automobile has caused serious problems. What is your opinion? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.With the development of economy and technology, the life of human has changed greatly such as the house condition, the way of communication and the transportation and so on. Although there is no double that it brings lots of conveniences and comforts to human, it also causes lots of controversies. One of the disputations is whether the automobile has improved modern life, different people have different ideas, from my point of view, I believe that we should have an objective consideration before the conclusion. There are several reasons to name it.Admittedly, automobile has accelerated the speed of life, which is very important for the modern life. As the old saying goes “time is money”, we can’t waste time by any means, including the time on the way to the destination of course. One hundred years ago, lots of Chinese people can’t image that they can visit abroad, let alone like American, England and Australia and so on, which far away from our country, and now, they just spend a few hours to achieve the place that they want.In addition, it brings lots of convenience for people. As a simple example of myself, I live in the north of China, and I like to eat lots of fruits only grow in the South of my country, but I never worry that I can’t enjoy these fruit because of the fast devilry by automobile. What’s more, the fruit is sti ll fresh and delicious.On the other hand, we can’t ignore the serious problem owing to the automobile. As we all known, the automobile has a negative effect on the environment. Considering the acrid rain, the global warming and the poor health of human, all of these problems are deeply related to the use of automobile. Furthermore, it also impacts the life of wild life and causes the bad traffic accidents.According to a research of Animal Association, about 3000 rare animals died of the collision of the vehicles.From what I have mentioned above, we should carefully draw a conclusion that we must make use of automobile to appropriate extent. If we can take it place by walking or riding the bicycle, we should try our best to avoid taking automobile, in order to protect our environment on the condition that it doesn’t damage our benefits.5.Some people say that computers have made life easier and more convenient. Other people say that computers have made life more complex and stressful. What is your opinion? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.Some people say that computers have made life easier and more convenient. Otherpeople say that computers have made life more complex and stressful. What is your opinion？ Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.Some people say that the invention of computers is one of the greatest humankind's inventions. However, other people think that computers make their life more stressful. I agree with those people who think that computers brought many benefits and play a very important role in our modern life.First of all, every company nowadays uses a computer to store its data and make different kinds of operations. It is very difficult to imagine life without computers.A company would have to store millions of papers and documents. Moreover, a customer would have to wait hours to check his balance or get a piece of information about his transactions at his bank, while an employee was looking trough those papers. Another important aspect of this is that people are able to type all their information, make corrections, print or send documents using computers. It makes life much easier. One can spend the rest of the time watching TV with his family or working on something new.We use computers every day sometimes even not knowing it. When we go to a store and use our credit cards many computers process our information and perform transactions. When we need to get some cash we use money access machines that are computerized too.Second of all, computers provided a great means of communication - the Internet.I think it is the most easiest and cheapest way to get in touch with relatives, friends, business colleagues, etc. Nowadays the world becomes smaller and smaller. When I was a little girl, I could not imagine that it would be possible to communicate with people from all around the world in so easy way. A person can get latest news, become friends with someone from another country, find his old friends, ask for a piece of advice, etc.Finally, in addition to these practical benefits people can shopping without leaving their house. They just use an Internet access, a computer and their cards to make a payment. It is kind of difficult to imagine that a few years ago people had to spend their time in lines buying tickets. Now, a person can choose a destination, company, date and time and get tickets delivered to his door. I think it is amazing.To sum up, I believe that computers made our lives easier. They change our attitude towards life. I think with the invention of computers people became closer and friendlier.6.People have different ways of escaping the stress and difficulties of modern life. Some read;some exercise; others work in their gardens. What do you think are the best ways of reducing stress? Use specific details and examples in your answer.\In today's society, everyday we may face some kind of stress and difficulties from work, school or family. In order to escape them, people have different methods. Some read, some exercise, while others work in their gardens. From my point of view, I would like to use different ways according to different stress.First, the stress from work and school maybe the most common stress. In this circumstance, I like to listen to music, especially some inspiring music. When I appreciate it, I can transiently forget those unpleasant things and let my head sober. After listening to those inspiring music, I feel that I am full of encourage overcoming difficulities. Then I will calmly analyse my circumstance and find the way to solve problems.If my stress comes from my family or my friends( foe example, some misunderstanding and squabbles), I think that the best way to erase this stress is a sinere conversation. I will positively converse with my relatives and friends. I hope that I can know what is their opinion and also let them understand me. I feel that when we understand each other, all conflict will disappear.In a word, everyone can find the best way that is suitable for himself/herself. But conservation and appreciating music are the most suitable for me to erase stress.7. You need to travel from your home to a place 40 miles (64 kilometers) away. Compare the different kinds of transportation you could use. Tell which method of travel you would choose. Give specific reasons for your choice.8. Some people believe that the best way of learning about life is by listening to the advice of family and friends. Other people believe that the best way of learning about life is through personal experience. Compare the advantages of these two different ways of learning about life. Which do you think is preferable? Use specific examples to support your preference.Both the advice of family and friends and personal experience are valuable source for learning about life. On the other hand, in my opinion, learning life through personal experience is more effective than others. There are many reasons for my choice and I would like to put them in the following way.First of all,the main reason is that experiences sometimes become different between people. Sometime each person feels differently on the same event. For instance, I was afraid of flying and I always listened my friends bad experiences. But when I flyed, I saw that flying is an incredible feeling.Another reason for learning life through personal experience is that people form more opinion about life with experiences than listen the advice. For example, I always want to play theatre game and my friends played a theatre game tell me their experiences. One day, I played a theatre game and I saw that I could not understand only by listening this feeling ,if I did not play a game.From all these reasons above,people learn life either listening their family and friend orliving their own experience but I think learning about life by own enperiences is the best way because of providing more information to people and feeling different emotion.9.Some people prefer to spend most of their time alone. Others like to be with friends most of the time. Do you prefer to spend your time alone or with friends? Use specific reasons to support your answer.Staying with Friends or Being Alone People like to spend their free time in different ways. Some people like to spend time by themselves, while others would prefer to spend it with friends. As for me, I prefer to spend time with my friends for the following reasons. First of all, when I am with my friends we can share our experiences. If I saw a beautiful sunset by myself and then tired to describe it to them, I do not think they would really understand how I felt. However, if we see it together, we can talk about how it made us feel and better understand one another. Second, when I am with my friends I feel more courageous. I am willing to try more new things when I have company than when I am alone. I am not afraid of failure when I know my good friends can help me. Finally, some activities are just not much fun when I am alone. Many sports and games require at least two players. There are many reasons why I like to spend time with my friends. The ones given above are just three of the most important.10.Some people trust their first impressions about a person’s character because they believe these judgments are generally correct. Other people do not judge a person’s character quickly because they believe first impressions are often wrong. Compare these two attitudes. Which attitude do you agree with? Support your choice with specific examples.Some people judge a person's character by first impressions simply because they believe thesejudgments are, for the most part, correct. Other people are warier about making judgments quicklybecause they believe their original impressions could be faulty. However, it's a common pattern: ifsomeone makes a good first impression, people will be inclined to believe it, and make a judgmentbased on that; if the person makes a poor first impression, people will usually hold off judgmentuntil a second or third meeting, to ensure that the original assessment was correct.My personal philosophy for meeting new people is to give them the benefit of the doubt. Ifsomeone makes a very good first impression, I am likely to believe that that is his/her characterunless, on future encounters, he/she proves it to be otherwise. I believe that this is a fair, beneficialway of making judgments. I do not think there is any reason to be suspicious of someone'scharacter unless he/she has given me a reason to think so. It is even possible that I will make a badfirst impression on someone if I am too suspicious of his/her character.However, I also believe it is important to hold off judgment if someone makes a bad firstimpression. There are a multitude of reasons why someone might be in a bad mood, and thereforemake a poor impression. For example, perhaps I am meeting a man who just had something badhappen to him. Perhaps his bag was stolen, and it had some important documents in it. If thishappened to me, I would surely be in a bad mood, and not make a good impression on any newpeople I met. Therefore, I think it is important to wait until a second, or even third meeting beforepassing judgment.11.A gift (such as a camera, a soccer ball, or an animal) can contribute to a child’s development. What gift would you give to help a child develop? Why? Use reasons and specific examples to support your choice.People learn and develop throughout their entire lives. I think that in our modern world it is very essential to be familiar with computer technology. So, if I had a chance to give a child a gift it would be a computer. I think that computers play an essential role in our lives and they bring many benefits to our society. Moreover, children can learn by use of computers. In the following paragraphs I will give my reasons to support my answer. First of all, by use of computers children can play many games, which help to improve children's ability to think logically, think about their next step, etc. Moreover, playing games develop many important qualities such as attention, patience, persistent, etc. Second of all, computers help children to learn more about anything by use of Internet. They can find new friends even from another country. Children will improve their communication skills, gain more knowledge and experience. Also, children have a great opportunity to learn more about other countries, their history, traditions and customs. Finally, computer skills can help a child to find his or her first job. A child can find an ad in the Internet about a job offer or he or she can make a resume and place it in the Internet. Personally, I think it is a great experience and big step forward towards a future career. In addition to those practical benefits, computer technology helps children to do their homework faster. They can type their data into the computer, easily check the grammar, correct mistakes and then print it out. Moreover, there are plenty different kinds of educational programs that can help children learn how to read, write, draw and even how to behave and speak a foreign language. To sum up, I believe that children should learn how to use computer because this knowledge will help them in the future to be more self-confident and enterprising. Furthermore, computers can greatly improve and simplify their lives if children know how to use them12.Many parts of the world are losing important natural resources, such as forests, animals, or clean water. Choose one resource that is disappearing and explain why it needs to be saved. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.As we all know, the plant we live is not as clean as before. There is no doubt that it is because hum an beings increase the production of goods and ignore the effect side from the pollution being rele ased to the environment nearby. Although we have already realized how serious the loss of raw ma terial and natural resource is, all the method of repair still can’t fix it as before, just as we can’t create another chance to save these extinctive animals. However, I’d like to analyze the decreasing of clean water.Scientists have ever claimed that there was only 2.5 percent of water we could use over the rest of water in ocean, which meant although water covered more area than land, it was still can’t satisfy people’s need of water. Excluding fat, water composes approximately 70% of human body by mass. In so me poverty, because of the lack of clean water, they used polluted water which many toxic and har mful substances in it. Causing the spread of waterborne diseases and increasing the death rate of lo cal residents. We can know that water is one-off product that the loss of water would not come bac k from the spreading of media. However, in this situation, people still ignore the worth of clean wa ter.On the other hand, it is also another threats of these animals live in clean water. Due to the damage of their habitat, there was a dramatically decrease on the number of fish, which brought many different species of fish being endangered and caused the imbalance of ecology and vicious cycle of n ature began.To be concluded, human beings as the rulers of this plant have responsibility to protect it. We can’t be regret until the end of damaging hardly be fixed.13.You have the opportunity to visit a foreign country for two weeks. Which country would you like to visit? Use specific reasons and details to explain your choice.If I could visit any foreign country, I’d like to visit Ireland. The scenery there is so beautiful . Ireland has a lot of rain and that makes everything very green and lush . It hasn’t be come a completely industrialized country yet, so there are still areas where the countryside is unspoiled by pollution. Often ,you can drive for miles without seeing another car or coming to a big city. I’d like to take my set of paints and several canvases and try to capture some of the scenes there. It seems every way you turn, you’re looking at beautiful scenery. The area near the ocean is especially dramatic, with giant dark cliffs rising out of the water.I also think I’d enjoy the slower pace of Ireland. It’s so different from the busy pace of my country . Of course, Ireland’s big cities are just as hectic as any big city anywhere. But many of the Irish live in smaller towns or on farms in rural areas. Visiting these places is very restful. People do n’t feel the need to stick to a schedule . Things get done , but in a much more relaxed fashion. In my country ,there’s the feeling that you’re always late for something. In Ireland ,it feels like you’ve never late because no one stays on schedule.Most of all, it would be interesting for me to meet the cousins in my mother’s family. They live in Donegal . I could see the house where my grandmother grew up and where my cousins still live. This house is connected to a lighthouse. Visiting there would give me a clearer idea of what my grandmother ‘s childhood was like.Ireland would be a refreshing break from the life I lead in my own country. I wish I could go there.14.People do many different things to stay healthy. What do you do for good health? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.How to Stay Healthy There is no denying the importance of health. In order to maintain our good health and lead lives that are as fulfilling as possible, it is important to take some steps. Those mentioned below are what I do to stay healthy. The first step I take is to keep regular hours and stick to a healthy, balanced diet. The second step I recommend is to get regular exercise. Studies have shown that even moderate exercise, such as walking, can have great benefits for our health if done on a regular basis. Third, I suggest seeing a doctor for an annual checkup. Last but not least, I take time to relax and renew my spirits and mental energy every day. There are many things that we can do to stay healthy. The above steps are only a few suggestions. The important thing is to value our health and not neglect it15.Many people have a close relationship with their pets. These people treat their birds, cats, or other animals like members of their family. In your opinion, are such relationships good? Why or why not? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.Relationship with the Pets Many people around the world keep pets. Some go so far as to consider them members of the family, such as a son or daughter, sister or brother. In my opinion, this is not a good practice for several reasons. One is that pets can not stay with us forever. Generally, they live much shorter lives than people. They may also easily get lost or run away. Aperson who considers his pet a child or sibling might have trouble accepting this fact. He may not be able to keep the importance of this relationship in perspective and suffer greatly. Another more important reason is that pets can not truly reciprocate our feelings or communicate with us as people can. Thus, it is a one-way relationship as far as the deep feeling do and is, therefore, shallower than the relationships we can have with other people. In conclusion, while pets can be a wonderful addition to a family, it is not appropriate to view them as substitutes for real family members. They can offer companionship, but not the meaningful communication and emotions that help to develop a real relationship。