1 We can get information from news but some people think we should not trust what the journalists tell us. To what extent do you agree?

2 Today people can perform many everyday tasks such as shopping, banking and business transactions without meeting others face to face. What are the effects of this phenomenon on individuals and society as a whole?

3 Today people in different countries can see the same movies, watch the same TV programs and follow the same fashions. To what extent do you think this is a positive development?

4 The government should not spend money on arts. To what extent do you agree?

5 Some people think

年初的时候我就明确提出，今年的写作一定是上半年新旧题交替，下半年绝大多数新题。英国人做事从来都渐进，国王也不肯全废掉。英国人这个渐进的做事风格，太多事例说明。今年新题这么多，作预测其实很大风险，但是我相信老师用经验去总结总比让学生们自己猜测好。教育类今年每个月一定有1-2道题。政府，全球化（比如国际旅行），犯罪和环境四类可能性大。上半年考题有在下半年重复可能。

 

1 Describe an occasion ( 场合 ) that you were late for.

Let me talk about an important occasion that I was late for. A couple of days ago,

I got an email from a training center and they told me to go to a job interview the next morning. I applied for that job last month and really hoped I could get it. At first I felt very excited. But then I felt kind of worried and nervous and I got very little sleep that night. So the next morning, I woke up late, like 8:30. You know, they told me to get to their center at 9.In a great hurry, I took a taxi and told the driver to drive as fast as possible. But there was a serious traffic jam then in the city and we got stuck. We moved so slowly so I got totally mad. I shouted at the driver but he told me he really couldn’t do anything about this situation. At that time, I had no choice but to call the manager of that training center. I told him that I would probably be late for the interview and felt really sorry

口语考试的最高境界就是：确实是提前背的，但是尽可能听起来不象是背的。

下面的答案，掌握80%就够，细节不需要全都记忆。

 

Describe your favorite sport.

 

5月讲课累了，最近推掉了一些课，为暑假的疯狂做好准备。

 

law的话题在上周的口语单项班专门给同学们强调了，口语十大弱智卡片里也讲了。

 

果然，前天，6月5号，法律话题在口语考试再次出现。

 

口语实力不强但是最后口语考到6.5-7分的学生，一定是会用小词，让考官不觉得他/她在背书的学生，一堆大词根本不象口语而且也很难背熟。

 

下面就给大家举个描述婚姻法的例子，这应该是大家感兴趣的法律吧哈哈，答案里面的时间都是我自己想象的。卡片的结构其实考官很在乎，可惜大家从来都不在乎。细节掌握80%就可以，关键是要有是你自己在说话而不是在背书的感觉。

 

Well, let me talk about the marriage law in China. I’d like to get started by talking about the history of this law. It was first passed in 1955 by the National People’s Congress（全国人大） but then it was changed many times. The latest change to this law, as far as I know, happened in 2002. The change was about the m

 

关于她的这段话，想问三个问题：

 

1） 仅仅因为Dalai Lama是她的一个朋友而相信关于西藏的传闻？Sharon Stone去过西藏么？说谎的人的karma会是怎样呢？

 

2) 仅仅因为中国对Tibetans不好而出现地震这样的karma,那么那些在拉萨杀人放火的暴徒们的karma是不是应该更可怕？

 

3) 仅仅因为自己的political stance而认为死亡6万多平民的灾难是karma, 那么侮辱6万多生命的人karma又会是怎样的？

 

Sharon Stone在大学里读的是creative writing, 但是三个仅仅，让Sharon Stone的话已经不仅仅是creative,而是变得paradoxical　--> preposterous.

 

在美国，很多人喜欢评论中国的事。但是他们中的一半从来没有离开过自己出生的那个州，另一半从来没有明白政治和人性的区别。

 

我喜欢 John K. Fairbank或者Joseph Needham