一、口语题
Directions: Talk on the following topic for at least 5 minutes. Be sure to make your points clear and supporting details adequate. You should also be ready to answer any questions raised by the examiners during your talk. You need to have your name and registration number recorded. Start your talk with “My name is...”“My registration number is...”
1、Topic: “The customer is always right” is the slogan of every store, every shopping center. Why is the slogan so much advocated today? In fact, most of the customers’ complaints cannot be settled satisfactorily. How would you explain that?
2、Question for Reference:
1. What is the slogan driving at?
2. Have you ever had any unpleasant shopping experience?
3. If you were a shop assistant, what would you think of the slogan?
二、口译题
1、Part A (英译中)
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. After you have heard each passage, interpret it into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal… and stop it at the signal… You may take notes while you are listening. Remember you will hear the passages only once. Now let’s begin Part A with the first passage.
Passage 1:
Welcome to Vancouver, Canada’s third largest metropolitan city. Known as Canada’s gateway to the Pacific Ocean, Vancouver is linked by shipping services with the Pacific countries. Manufactured goods from Asia keep flowing into this natural ice-free harbor throughout the year.//
A multi-national, multi-cultural society, Vancouver is largely British in character with obvious traditional Chinese influence. Its Chinatown is the second largest Chinese community in North America, second only to San Francisco of the United States.
