Part 1考题总结

考题总结：

Study

1. Are you working or studying?

2. Tell me about the school or university you attend.

3. Tell me something about your primary school.

4. What is your major?

5. Do you like your major and why?

6. What courses or subjects do you study?

7. What is your favorite subject?

8. What is the most useful subject?

9. What would you like to do in the future?

10. What are the characteristics of schools in China?

11. What kinds of majors are available in China?

12. What do Chinese people think about teachers?

13. Is teaching a popular job in China, why or why not?

Work

1. Are you working or studying?

2. What do you do for a living?

3. How long have you been doing this job?

4. Do you like your job, why or why not?

5. Do you find your job interesting?

6. What are your main responsibilities in your job?

7. Is working important to you?

8. Have you received any training related to your work?

9. Tell me about your boss or colleague.

10. What would be your ideal job?

11. If you could choose another job, what would you choose?

Concentration

1. Is it important to focus on one thing you should deal with?

2. When do people need to focus on something?

3. When do people become the most focused?

4. Is it easy to be with concentration?

5. Can people deal with two different things at the same time?

Patience

Name

1. What’s your name?

2. Does your name have any special meaning or significance?

3. Have you ever changed your name, why or why not?

4. Do Chinese people like changing their names, why or why not?

5. What kind of people like changing their names?

6. What’s their purpose in changing their names?

7. In your culture, do women change their names when they get married?

Music

1. Do you like music, and what type of music do you like?

2. Have you learned to play any musical instrument?

3. What kind of music is popular now in China?

4. How does music affect people’s lives?

5. What kind of music do young people like, and what kind of music do old people like?

6. Do you want to be a singer?

7. Has the music you like changed over the years?

8. Do you think music help you study?

9. Do your parents have a different musical taste with you?

10. Who is your favorite singer or band?

11. Do you prefer live music or recorded music?

12. Have you even been to a concert before?

13. Do you think music should be a required course for middle school students, why or why not?

House and Apartment

1. Do you live in a house or an apartment?

2. How do you like it? And why?

3. What part of your home do you like best?

4. Can you describe your room?

5. Do you want to change your room?

6. What would it be if you could change something about your room?

7. Where do you live now? And how long have you been there?

8. Who do you live with?

Writing

1. Do you often write things?

2. Do you write every day?

3. What do you usually write about?

4. Do you like writing to people?

5. How often do you send e-mails?

6. What are your main reasons for using e-mails?

7. Do you like to send e-mails?

8. Do you usually write by hand or write using a computer?

9. Nowadays, how do most people write things?

10. Do you think computers might one day replace handwriting?

11. When do children begin to write in your country?

12. How did you learn to write?

13. Do you think handwriting is very important nowadays?

14. How can children today improve or practice their handwriting?

15. What impression does a person’s handwriting have on other people?

Daily routine

1. What are you usually doing at this time? Do you do the same thing(s) every day?

2. Tell me something about your daily routine in school/university.

3. In a typical day, what do you do in the classroom?

4. Can you think of any improvements to your daily routine?

5. (If you do not work) For you, what's the best time of day for studying?

6. (If you work) For you, what is the best time of day (or, day of the week) for working?

7. What time do you usually get up?

8. What do you usually do after you get up (or, in the morning)?

9. What part of the (= your) day do you like best? (Why?) (= What part of your daily routine makes you the happiest?  Or = What part of the day are you most efficient?)

10. Is your life now the same as it was before?

11. If you could make one change to your daily routine, what would it be?

12. If you had more free time, what would you do?

13. Do you like to plan what you will do each day? (Why?/Why not?)

14. Do you usually do the same things at the same time each day?

15. How do you plan (organize) your study time?

16. Do you ever (or, do you often) change these plans?

Home

1. Do you currently live in a house or a flat/apartment?

2. Can you describe your house/flat?

3. What main items of furniture or appliances do you have in each room?

4. Is it a typical house/flat in your city?

5. What kind of house or flat do you want to live in the future?

6. Do you like the decoration in your home, why or why not?

7. Will you move to another house or flat in the near future?

8. What kind of house/flat are you going to move into?

9. What do you think of the area in which you live?

10. How long have you been living there?

11. What are your neighbors like?

Transport

1. Which kind of transport do you usually use?

2. What is the public transport like in your city?

3. When are these forms of transport most crowded?

4. Do you want to have a car, why or why not?

5. Do you think there are too many cars on the road?

6. How do you think we can control the traffic condition?

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of planes?

8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of trains

9. Are there any traffic problems in your city?

Hometown

1. Where are you from?

2. Where is your hometown?

3. Tell me about your hometown.

4. What’s your favorite thing or place in your hometown?

5. What is famous about your hometown?

6. Tell me about some scenic spots in your hometown.

7. What are the main places of interest in your hometown? What places should foreigners visit in

8. Do you like your hometown? Why or why not?

9. What is the difference between your hometown and Beijing?

10. What are the people like in your hometown?

11. If you could change one thing about your hometown, what would it be?

12. What attractive pieces of architecture are there in your hometown?

13. Is your hometown a good place for young people to live?

Art

1. Are you very interested in art?

2. Did you create any art such as painting or sculpture when you were a child?

3. Have you ever been to an art gallery or an art exhibition?

4. How often do you visit art galleries?

Travelling/Relaxation/Happiness

1. Do you love traveling?

2. What is the real meaning of traveling?

3. Do you love to hang out alone or with others?

4. What do you usually do on weekends?

5. Where do you normally go during holidays?

6. What do you usually do in evenings?

7. Is the pressure in modern society huge?

8. How do you feel about happiness?

9. Does it have anything to do with money?

Photography/Drawing/TV

1. Do you love taking pictures or taking pictures of you?

2. What is the importance of taking pictures?

3. What kind of photos do people love to hang on the walls?

4. Do you love drawing?

5. What is the meaning of drawing?

6. What influence do you think drawing has on the youngsters and the elderly people?

7. Why do parents always want their kids to learn how to draw?

8. Do parents in China allow their kids to watch TV? why.

Countryside

1. Have you ever lived in countryside for a long time?

2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in the countryside?

3. Compare the availability of services such as education, health services and transportation in cities and the countryside.

4. What are some of the differences between city people and country people?

5. Which place is more beautiful, a city or the countryside?

6. Do you think a city could ever be more beautiful than the countryside?

7. Which do you think is the more relaxing place to live, the city or the countryside?

Advertisement

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of adverting?

2. Do people usually buy goods after watching advertisements?

3. Are there any differences between the advertisements in magazines and those on TV?

4. Describe a TV program you dislike.

Sleeping

1. How many hours do you sleep every day?

2. Is it necessary to take a nap at noon?

3. Do old people sleep a lot, why or why not?

4. Do you think younger people sleep more than old people?

5. What are the effects of sleeping too little on people?

6. Do you sometimes find difficult to fall asleep?

7. Are there any methods to help us fall asleep more easily?

Boat

1. Have you ever ridden in a boat?

2. Do boats have any significant meaning in Chinese history?

3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of riding boats?

4. When did you ride in a boat for the first time?

5. What was your feeling when riding in a boat?

6. Do you feel sick after long hours of travelling in a boat?

Emails and Letters

1. Do you write many letters or emails?

2. Which do you more often write, emails or letters?

3. How often do you write an email or a letter?

4. What are the differences between emails and letters?

5. What do you usually write about?

6. Who do you usually write to?

7. Is it hard to think of what to write?

8. What kind(s) of letter/email do you think is (are) the hardest to write?

9. How do you feel when you receive a letter or email?

10. What kinds of emails (or letters) do you receive that make you feel happy?

11. Are you more likely to use letter to communicate with others or via email?

Patience

1. Do you have patience?

2. Do most Chinese people have patience?

3. Have you ever lost patience?

Music

1. Do you like music, and what type of music do you like?

2. Have you learned to play any musical instrument?

3. What kind of music is popular now in China?

4. How does music affect people’s lives?

5. What kind of music do young people like, and what kind of music do old people like?

6. Do you want to be a singer?

7. Has the music you like changed over the years?

8. Do you think music help you study?

9. Do your parents have a different musical taste with you?

10. Who is your favorite singer or band?

11. Do you prefer live music or recorded music?

12. Have you even been to a concert before?

13. Do you think music should be a required course for middle school students, why or why not?

Parks and gardens

1. Are there many parks or gardens where you live or in your hometown?

2. Do you often go to a park or a garden?

3. How often do you go there?

4. What do you like to do when you go to a park or garden?

5. What do other people do in these places?

6. When do other people go there?

7. Do you think parks and gardens are important to a city, why or why not?

Food & Cooking

1. Who usually cooks in your family?

2. What’s your favorite hometown dish?

3. Can you cook? Why don’t you learn?

4. Do you think it is important for children to learn how to cook?

5. Do you like to eat out or cook at home?

6. What are the benefits of eating at home?

7. Do you like fresh food or prepared food?

Newspapers

1. Do you often read newspapers?

2. Which do you prefer reading, magazines or newspapers?

3. What kinds of newspapers or magazines do you usually read?

4. How old were you when you first started to read newspapers?

5. Do you think it’s important to read newspapers, why or why not?

6. Why do you think people read newspapers?

7. What different types of newspaper are there in China?

8. Do you care about the news?

9. Is the news important to you?

10. What kinds of news do Chinese people read in newspapers?

11. Do you prefer to read about local, domestic or international news, and why?

12. What are some methods that newspapers use to attract readers?

13. What influence do you think newspapers have on society?

14. Do you think the internet is a good way to get news?

The Internet:

1. Do you often use the internet?

2. (Similar to above) How often do you use the internet?

3. What do you use it for?

4. (Similar to above) What do you do in the internet?

5. Do you think there are any bad points about (using) the internet?

6. Have you ever bought anything on the internet?

7. When did you first start using the internet?

8. Where did you learn to use the internet?

9. How did you learn to use the internet?

10. What do you think is the best way to learn about (or learn how to use) the internet?

11. Is there anything you don't understand about the internet?

12. Do you think the internet is a good thing? 

13. Is there anything that's not so good about (or, on) the internet?

14. Do you think the use of the internet needs to be controlled?

15. Is the internet very popular in China?

16. What kinds of people most often use the internet?

17. What age group of people most often use the internet?

18. How can people best make use of the internet?

19. In general, what impact does the internet have on people's lives?

20. How can people learn things on the internet?

21. What sorts of things can people learn on the internet?

22. What do you think are the benefits of "e-learning"?