2018年9月公共英语三级口语指导经典素材练习
Are there any taboos in China? Can you give us some examples?
Yes. China is a country with a long history, during which a lot of taboos have come into being. Here are some examples. Don’t say any unpleasant words during festivals, especially the word "death", old people are particularly unhappy when hearing that.
Don’t wear white clothes if you’re going to attend a wedding. Nor should you bring white flowers.
You should also avoid white clothes during the Spring Festival, red is the best colour.
Don’t send others clocks as gifts, for they have a funeral connotation. Don’t share a pear with your friends, relatives of family members. Don’t give couples or lovers umbrellas as presents. Both pears and umbrellas suggest "parting".
这位考生在回答问题时虽然没有使用明显的列举法，但几个排比性质的don’t...，don’t...，仍然卓有成效地起到了列举法的作用，听来仍是条理清晰，表述充实。
What’s your opinion on traveling?
Well, nowadays traveling on holidays has become a fashion in China with the development of economy. When the demands on food, clothes and some other necessities of life become far beyond being satisfied, people have come to spend their extra money on traveling.
Traveling has many advantages. Firstly, it provides oppotunities ofr people to taste strang food and to know novel customs that they otherwise would not know. Secondly, through traveling, men may make friends along the way. Thirdly, in traveling, people can broaden their horizen, enrich their experience of life and
example, perilous peaks and furious rapids may endanger travellers’lives.
Accommodations and bad weather trouble travellers a lot. Well, on the whole, I think travelling does more good than harm.
在回答这个问题时，这位考生既用了列举法，也用了举例法，使得他的表述清晰明了，有条不紊。
Do you like music? Can you say something about music? Yes, I like music very much. There are many kinds of music since people have different ideas about what is
popular songs of the common music hall. Good music often has a wonderful effect upon the feelings of every person. Forinstance, soft and sweet music soothes the wearied, the sad, and the restless, while grand music will fill strong men with great ambitions. Indeed, as one poet once asked, "What passion cannot music raise and quell?"
这位考生列举了几位很有名的音乐家，说明他熟悉也喜欢音乐，举的例子也比较到位，使得他的整个回答有理有据，语言流畅，表述充分。如考生不熟悉音乐以及那些有名的音乐家，或不能准确地说出他们的名字，就得设法去用一些其他办法比如你喜欢的某位中国音乐家来补救，以求把问题回答得完整一些，流畅一些。
