A traditional story: Chang’e and Houyi雅思口语范文

The traditional way of telling a story has a clear beginning and ending.()

a sense of______ when he finishes reading.

A.completion

B.satisfaction

C.responsibility

D.humor

Which of the following statements about traditional plot pattern is NOT TRUE？

A.After the story is set in motion, the heightening process leads quickly to the key event.

B.In a story’s exposition, the basic information is introduced to readers.

C.The falling action contains events that are much less intense than the climax and that lead to the resolution of the conflict.

D.The conflicts lead to the climax, the scene that presents a story’s decisive action or event.

此题为判断题(对，错)。

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"Cool" is a word with many meanings．Its traditional meaning is used to 36 a tempera-ture that is fairly cool．As the world has37, the word has expanded to38 many differentmeanings．

"Cool" can be used to express feelings of39in almost anything．

When you see a brand-name car in the street, maybe you can&39; t help 40, "It&39; s cool．"You might think, "He&39; s so cool," when you see your41 footballer．

We all enlarge the meaning of "cool"．You can use it42 many words such as "new" or"amazing"．Here&39; s an interesting story 43 illustrate the usage ofthe word: A teacher askedher students to44 the waterfall they had visited．On one student&39; s paper was just the one 45, "It&39; s so cool．" 46he thought it was47to describe48he saw and felt:

49 the story also proves the shortage of words and expressions．50 "cool", somepeople have no words to express the same meaning．So it is51 to improve our word strengthto maintain some52．

As a popular word, "cool" stands for a kind of special53 that people can accept easily．Except "cool", can you think of many words that54 your life as colorful？ I can．And I thinkthey are also very55．

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A.find

B.take

C.show

D.make sure

Passage Five

On the fourth Thursday of November, every year, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day. The day is a national holiday which is set aside each year as a time to give thanks to God for our blessings (祝福).

Legend has it that the first English colonists (殖民者) in Massachusetts (马萨诸塞州) started the custom. According to the story, the Pilgrims~ first winter in the New World was difficult. They had arrived too late to grow many crops, and without fresh food, half of the colonists died from disease. The following spring the Indians taught them how to grow corn. In the autumn of 1621, bountiful crops of corn, beans and pumpkins were harvested. The colonists had much to be thankful for, so a feast was planned. They invited their Indian friends to join them in a large feast to share in the bounties (慷慨) of the land. This is the first Thanksgiving.

The traditional foods of the big Thanksgiving Day meal include roast turkey, cranberries, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, and Indian bread puddings.

Since the day is set aside for giving thanks, it has also become a traditional family day. Large dinners with many relatives are common throughout America on this special day.

51. When was the Thanksgiving Day tradition begun？

A. In the 17(上标)th century.

B. On Thursday.

C. Last November.

D. In the 16(上标)th eentury.

he fact that children develop【C1】______interests when they participate in creative dramatics【C2】______in their learning being more【C3】______. It docs this in tour ways: In this activity children feel【C4】______they are actually involved in the subject matter, and【C5】______they are characters in the play【C6】______which they are working. When children act【C7】______a story, both the children who【C8】______and those who make up the audience are involved in the【C9】______of the play, historical persons come【C10】______, historical events take on reality. This kind of teaching is naturally more interesting to children than just talking about things in a(n)【C11】______way.

Creative dramatics gives children opportunity to select the【C12】______matter for their acting, and to arrange and organize their plays. This sort of teaching can【C13】______. pupils' ability to exercise discrimination and to arrange events for performance. It also【C14】______the spirit of and provides practice in cooperation,【C15】______all the pupils together are【C16】______for a satisfying performance.

The third function of creative dramatics is to make pupils' images more clear and precise, their knowledge more accurate. In traditional【C17】______the teacher asks questions and the pupils answer them according to the text. But when the method is that of creative dramatics, the pupils cannot act out the materials they have read【C18】______they understand it clearly.

The fourth function of creative dramatics is to cultivate and provide practice in the habit of associated living. Traditional class work is【C19】______on an individual basis, but in creative dramatics pupils need to【C20】______with each other, so that class work becomes team work.

【C1】

A．genuine

B．common

C．precious

D．sincere

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Sometime in the next century, the familiar early-newspaper on the front gate will disappear．

And instead of reading your newspaper, it will read to you．You&39; 11 get up and turn on the computernewspaper just like switching on the TV．An electronic voice will distribute stories about the latestevents, guided by a program that selects the type of news you want．You&39; 11 even get to choose thekind of voice you want to hear．Want more information on the brief story？ A simple touch makesthe entire text appear．Save it in your own personal computer if you like．These are among the pre-dictions from communication experts working on the newspapers of the future．Pictured as part ofbroader home-based media and entertainment systems, computer newspapers would unite print andbroadcast reporting, offering news and analysis with video images of news events．

Most of the technology is available (可用的 ) now, but convincing (说服) more people thatthey don&39; t need paper to read a newspaper is the next step．But resistance to computer newspapersmay be stronger from within journalism．

Since it is such a cultural change, it may be that the present generation of journalists and pub-lishers will have to die off before the next generation realize that the newspaper industry is no lon-ger a newspaper industry．Technology is making the end of traditional newspapers unavoidable．

Despite technological advances, it could take decades to replace newsprint with computerscreens．It might take 30 to 40 years to complete the changeover because people need to buy com-puters and because newspapers have established financial(财经的) interests in the paper industry．

What is the best title for this passage？ 查看材料

A.Computer Newspapers Are Well Liked

B.Newspapers of the Future Will Likely Be on Computer

C.Newspapers Are out of Fashion

D.New Communication Technology

.What follows is a list of some of these untruths and some suggestions to help you do your best at a job interview.

Myth 1:The aim of interviewing is to obtain a job offer.Only half true.The real aim of an interview is to obtain the job you want.That often means rejecting job offers you don,t want! So, before you do back-flips for an employer be sure you want the job.

Myth 2:Always please the interviewer.

Not true.Try to please yourself.Giving answers that you think will suit a potential employer and practicing a policy of appeasement (讨好)are certain to get you nowhere.An effective interview (where you are offered the job or not) is like an exciting encounter in conversation with your seatmate on an airplane.

Myth 3 :Never interrupt the interviewer.

An exciting conversation always makes us feel free—free to interrupt, to disagree, to agree enthusiastically.So, when interviewing, try to be yourself.Employers will either like or dislike you, but at least you'll have made an impression.Leaving an employer indifferent is the worst impression you

can make.And the way to make an effective impression is to feel free to be yourself!

26.By "myth" the author means __________

A.an old traditional story or legend

B.something that is unknown

C.something false, but most people believe to be true

27.According to the passage, if you are looking for a job, your aim in the interview is.

A.to obtain the job offered by the employer

B.to obtain a job you want

C.to let the employer understand you

28.The right attitude For you is to ___________.

A.please the potential employer

B.avoid disagreement with the interviewer

C.talk to your interviewer in a warm and friendly way

29.When interviewing, ________.

A.try to be yourself

B.leave an employer indifferent

C.don't interrupt the interviewer

30.The best title for this passage would be ___________.

A.The aim of job-seeking

B.Myths about interviewing

C.How to obtain a job

The history of responses to the work of the artist Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510) suggests gests that widespread appreciation by critics is a relatively recent phenomenon. Writing in 1550, Vasari expressed an unease with Botticelli's work, admitting that the artist fitted awkwardly into his evolutionary scheme of the history of art. Over the next two centuries, academic art historians defamed Botticelli in favor of his fellow Florentine, Michelangelo. Even when anti-academic art historians of the early nineteenth century rejected many of the standards of evaluation adopted by their predecessors, Botticelli's work remained out side of accepted taste, pleasing neither amateur observers nor connoisseurs. (Many of his best paintings, however, remained hidden away in obscure churches and private homes. )

The primary reason for Botticelli's unpopularity is not difficult to understand: most observers, up until the mid-nineteenth century, did not consider him to be noteworthy, because his work, for the most part, did not Seem to these observers to exhibit the traditional characteristics of fifteenth-century Florentine art. For example, Botticelli rarely employed the technique of strict perspective and, unlike Michelangelo, never used chiaroscuro.

Another reason for Botticelli's unpopularity may have been that his attitude toward the style. of classical art was very different from that of his contemporaries. Although he was thoroughly exposed to classical art, he showed little interest in borrowing from the classical style. Indeed, it is paradoxical that a painter of large-scale classical subjects adopted a style. that was only slightly similar to that of classical art.

In any case, when viewers began to examine more closely the relationship of Botticelli's work to the tradition of fifteenth-century Florentine art, his reputation began to grow. Analyses and assessments of Botticelli made between 1850 and 1870 by the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, as well as by the' writer Pater (although he, unfortunately, based his assessment on an incorrect analysis of Botticelli's personality), inspired a new appreciation of Botticelli throughout the English-speaking world. Yet Botticelli's work, especially the Sistine frescoes, did not generate worldwide attention until it was finally subjected to a comprehensive and scrupulous analysis by Home in 1908. Home rightly demonstrated that the frescoes shared important features with paintings by other fifteenth-century Florentines-features such as skillful representation of anatomical proportions, and of the human figure in motion. However, Home argued that Botticelli did not treat these qualities as ends in themselves-rather, that he emphasized clear depletion of a story, a unique achievement and one that made the traditional Florentine qualities less central. Because of Home's emphasis crucial to any study of art, the twentieth century has come to appreciate Botticelli's achievements.

Which of the following would be the best title for the text？

A．The Role of Standard Art Analyses and Appraisals.

B．Sandro Botticelli: From Rejection to Appreciation.

C．The History of Critics' Responses to Art Works.

D．Botticelli and Florentine: A Comparative Study.