Preparing for Oral ExamsThe oral exam is an o...

Preparing for Oral Exams

The oral exam is an opportunity for you to demonstrate your knowledge, your presentation/speaking skills, as well as your ability to communicate. 1. The exam can be formal, or informal, but you should consider all exams formal exchanges in order to make a good impression.2.

To do well on an oral exam requires a rather different set of skills than those called for on a written exam.3. Here are some ideas on what you can do to prepare:

Learn the requirements and criteria. When you are preparing for oral exams, you shouldn’t be doing it in the dark.4. You should ask your teachers and advisers, and if you are taking a standardized exam, you can even contact the authority that is organizing and collect that information. Usually this information is not a secret and your teachers would gladly explain to you what they expect to see during the examination in order to give you a good mark.

5. Get together in a small group or in pair. Ask each other the questions and actually take the time to verbally answer them. You will not get it right the first (or the second) time. Revise your outline to help you get a better track, and then try again. Discuss answering techniques with people in the field or who have had the test, which will give you the courage to face your oral exam with confidence.

A. Practice for the exam.

B. Learn something new.

C. It can also be good practice for job interviews!

D. So you should master some of them and aim at using them properly.

E. This means that you should make an active effort to learn that information.

F. For both types, you must listen carefully to the question, and answer directly.

G. So some previous experience is helpful: teaching, debating, oral presentations, class participation, etc.

高三英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析

You have made a few pronunciation mistakes in your oral exam, but ______, it is fairly good.

A. above all 　　 　　　　　 B. generally speaking

C. on the whole　　 　　　　 D. on one hand

高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

You have made a few pronunciation mistakes in your oral exam, but ______ , it is fairly good.

A. above all       　　B. generally speaking     C. on the whole       D. on one hand

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

An oral drug, named ERDRP-0519, was invented. It is specifically designed to protect people who got infected measles(麻疹) from spreading the virus to others. Like the flu, measles spreads through the air by breathing, coughing or sneezing. There is typically a time, about two weeks, between becoming infected with the virus and the beginning of symptoms like skin rash(皮疹), runny nose, heavy cough and high fever.

“This therapy application determines the desired characteristics of the drug, which are orally available, cost-effective manufacture and high stability,” Richard Klemperer, professor of Georgia State University, told reporters last Wednesday.

“With these criteria in mind, we have developed a small drug that blocks the measles virus over the past years, which is essential for copy of the virus.”

The researchers tested the drug in rats infected with canine distemper virus(犬瘟病) , which is a close relative of measles virus. They found that all of the infected rats treated with the drug survived the deadly infection, showed no clinical signs of disease and developed a strong protective immune response.

The drug could be used to treat friends, family and other social contacts of a person infected with measles virus, which have not developed symptoms yet but are at risk of having caught the disease, Klemperer said truthfully.

“The emergence of strong antiviral immunity(抗病毒免疫力) in treated animals is particularly encouraging, since it suggests that the drug may not only save an infected individual from disease but contribute to closing measles immunity gaps in a population,” Klemperer said.

The researchers emphasized the drug is not intended as a substitute for vaccination, but as an additional weapon to get rid of the measles. They planned to test the drug’s safety in larger animals, before moving into clinical trials in humans.

“If our next series of studies confirms that the human situation mirrors what we have seen in rats, then this drug may make a major contribution to getting rid of measles by preventing local outbreaks” Klemperer said.

Despite the existence of an effective vaccine, annual measles deaths worldwide have remained constant at around 150,000 since 2007. The reasons for this are the highly infectious nature of the virus, in the developing world largely due to issues of resources, and in many developed countries in particular in the European region due to parental concerns regarding vaccination safety.

1.If a boy got infected by measles virus, he might NOT show the symptom like ________.

A. runny nose　　　　　 B. bad cough

C. high fever　　　　　 D. sick stomach

2. From what Klemperer said, we know that the drug _________.

A. is only intended as a substitute for vaccination

B. can only save those infected individuals from disease

C. is cost-effective and high stability for curing measles

D. has the same effect on human as on larger animals

3.The best title of the passage is_________ .

A. the Introduction of a New Oral Drug

B. the Desired Characteristics of Drugs

C. the Common Symptoms of Getting Measles

D. the Application of Post-exposure Therapy

高三英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

An oral history is a piece of writing based on an interview with a person who has lived through a significant period in history or experienced a historical event. His or her memories provide a personal view of the past.

The first goal of all oral histories is to record stories about a specific subject. That subject may be a historical event like the D-Day invasion. It may be a period of history like the Depression, or a social or cultural trend, such as child labor. The first step in an oral history project, therefore, is to select a subject that interests you and is of historical significance.

Before attempting to identify people to interview for your project, you must first gather background information about the subject. The Library of Congress, which houses thousands of oral histories, provides these tips for researching your subject.

Before entering the library or logging onto the internet, decide on key words to use in your search. Use detailed search words. For example, search for rock and roll of the ’60s instead of the more general term music.

Look through newspaper and magazine articles and Internet Web sites to identify documents that are related to your subject. Make copies of those that will help you plan your interview questions and discard all others.

Discuss what you’ve read about your subject surprised you? What aspect of your subject would you like to know more about? Asking questions like these will help you to focus your subject and to identify the voice or voices you need to interview.

Oral histories are as much about self as they are about subject. One goal of an oral history interview is to find out what happened. A second and equally important goal is to discover how people reacted to or were affected by what happened. The person you select to interview, therefore, should have had some experience with the subject – either as a participant or a witness.

Once you have identified one or more people to interview, begin preparing your questions. The best questions are open-ended, encouraging the speaker to respond with more than a mere “Yes” or “No.” For example, an interviewer might have asked Clarence Hughart this question about his D-Day experience: Were you scared? That question, however, would probably not have elicited the sort of dramatic storytelling that Hughart provided.

Make a list of ten possible interview questions. The first two or three should be fairly general, asking the interviewee to talk about his or her childhood, perhaps. These kinds of questions put people at ease. Save more sensitive questions until the interview has been underway for five, 10, or 15 minutes or more.

After the interview come the final steps: writing a summary of the interview and then shaping it into a finished piece of writing.

		Deciding what you want to learn more about.		Selecting either a participant or a __(9) .		Making a list of possible interview questions.		(10) with general questions and save more sensitive ones for later.

高三英语任务型阅读简单题查看答案及解析

The following article is to tell you how to behave better in an IELTS oral English test． Everyone will make necessary preparations for some possible topics in order to increase your performance in the interview. 1. What would you do if you were asked in an interview to talk about how you feel about your hometown if in fact you really dislike living there?

Some people might think that being truthful in this situation and giving a negative answer, they would not do the right thing. 2. Talk about how they love living there and give a positive answer which sounds more attractive．

3. And giving a negative opinion of something is not important, either. 4. If you have more to say by being truthful, even if it is to express a negative opinion, then that is what you should talk about．

5. And follow it up with your reasons for disliking it instead of saying “I like my hometown… ” and then struggle to find something to say．

We should consider how to deal with this situation in the best way．

A．Actually, truthfulness is not important in such an interview．

B．What is your true feeling about your hometown?

C．It would be much better to say “Actually I don’t really like my hometown．．．”

D．However, sometimes, you will be asked to talk about something that you don’t really like or don’t really want to talk about．

E．No one should have a negative feeling about their hometown．

F．The important thing is that you have something to express．

G．Instead, they try to hide their true feelings．

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It is an unfair thing for our students____ have devoted 12 years to preparing the exam to be beaten by those_____ use illegal methods..

A. who; 不填   B. 不填，who    C. who，who   D. 不填，不填

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

A lot of people often forget that oral exams ______ to test our communicative ability．

A．design                      B．are designed

C．are designing              D．are being designed

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

A lot of people often forget that oral exams ________ to test our communicative ability.

A．design　 B．are designed

C．are designing　 D．are being designed

高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

We often seek food after focused mental activity，like preparing for an exam.Researchers guess that too much thinking consumes a lot of energy from the brain.So the brain，sensing that it may soon require more calories to keep going，apparently leads to bodily hunger，and even though there has been little physical movement，we eat.

The researchers note that tiring activity both increases the amount of blood sugar and lactate(乳酸盐)circulating in the blood and increases blood flow to the head.

Because the brain uses sugar and lactate as fuel，researchers wondered if the increased flow of fuel—rich blood during exercise could feed a worn—out brain and reduce the urge to overeat.

Thirty—eight healthy college students were invited to determine their fitness and metabolic(新陈代谢)rates and to report what their favorite pizza was.Afterward，they sat quietly for 35 minutes before being given as much of their favorite pizza as they wanted.At a later date，the volunteers returned and spent 20 minutes making selections from college and graduate-school entrance exams.

Next，half the students sat quietly for 15 minutes，before being given pizza.The rest of the volunteers spent those 15 minutes doing intervals on a treadmill(跑步机)two minutes of hard running followed by about one minute of walking，repeated five times.These students were then allowed to gorge on pizza，too.But by and large，they did not overeat.

When the researchers factored in(将……作为因素考虑)the calories burnt on running，they determined that those students actually consumed 200 fewer total calories after their brain workouts than the resting students.

The researchers do not know if the runners consumed extra calories at dinner.They also cannot tell whether other types of exercise would have the same effect as running，although the researchers say they suspect that if an activity causes someone to break into a sweat，it should also increase blood sugar and lactate，feeding the brain and weakening hungers call.

1.What do we learn from the first paragraph?

A. We eat for more physical movements.

B. A busy brain can make one hungry.

C. Energy from the brain can’t be used up.

D. An exam results in caloric consumption most.

2.What can a physical movement do?

A. Increase blood flow. B. Increase the amount of blood sugar.

C. Urge one to eat more. D. Make the brain tied.

3.What does the underlined phrase“gorge on”in paragraph 5 mean?

A. Eat. B. Purchase. C. Taste. D. Obtain.

4.What do the researchers want to know from the study?

A. Whether brain uses sugar and lactate as fuel.

B. Whether brain can be tired during exercise.

C. Whether exercise can reduce eating desire.

D. Whether exercise increases blood sugar.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析