新标准大学英二Summary课文概括II级口语试题PartI

1、Book 2 Retelling the passagePart I Please retell Unit 1 AR1 “College just is nt special any more ” within 1 minute.What are the most important issues for students today? Is the universitycampus really such a different placecompared to what it was 40 years ago?For the students in the 1960s, going to

2、college was the most exciting and stimulating experience of their life.They took part in protests and launched strikes against the establishment with their new and passionate commitment to freedom and justice. Going to college also meant their first taste of real freedom. They could discuss the mean

3、ing of life, read their first forbidden book and see their first indie film.In contrast, the students today don t have the passion for college life that they used to. Today, college is seen as a kind of small town from which people are keen to escape. Instead of the heady atmosphere of freedom which

4、 students in the 1960s discovered, students today are much more serious. College has become a means to an end, an opportunity to improve their prospects of being competitive in the employment market, and not an end in itself.Butin spite of all this, the role of the universityis the same as it always

5、 has been. It is the place wherestudents havetheopportunityto learn to think forthemselves.Part I Please retellUnit 2 AR1“ How empathy unfolds ”within 1 minute.Empathy,onceknown asmotor mimicry, originatesfrom physical imitatiion of others distress, which then arouses the same feelings in oneself. C

6、hildren seem to feel other children s pain and discomfort from the day they are born-much earlier than they realize they exist as individuals. By one year old, they start to learn the misery is someoneelse s but still seem confused about what to do. At around two and a half years, children may grow

7、out of motor mimicry when they are able to differentiate their own feelings from othersfeelings, so they are able to use other means to comfort others. At the same time, their empathic concern begins to differ from one to antoher.Part I Please retell Unit 2 AR2 “This is Sandy ” within 1 minute.This

8、is Sandy is an extract from Tone,a story about thelife of a deaf girl. She thinks her friends are honorablepeople who beam with pride when they introduce her to someone new. When people find out she is deaf they are mostly shocked for a moment at first but pretend not to be.Sandy says that the heari

9、ngaids she saw in a catalog are great fashionaccessories,they re just like a clip you put onto your ear.Sandy likes to show her hearing aid. She doesn t tie her hair up in a knot but she tucks it behind her ears. Sandy sfriend Carol introduces her to a boy called Colin at a party.They sit together o

10、n a couch and Colin realizes that Sandy can understand what he is saying by reading his lips. Someoneturns up the volume of the music and they dance together. Soon they are dating. This is when the real drama begins.Part I Please retell Unit 3 AR1“Stolen identity ” within1 minute.Identity theft refe

11、rs to stealing information aboutsomeone that makes it possible to use their bank account or credit card. With an informal and conversational tone the author persuades readers into actions against the threats of identity fraud in our daily life. According to the author we make the thieves job easy by

12、 leaving our mails unprotected, using ball pens for checks and forms, throwing documents containing our personal information in the trash, leaving our computer on and so on. So we should look for different ways to protect ourselves and change our mindset.Identity crimeis very likely to happen at any

13、 time,to any of us. We can take precautions to improve the chances of avoiding this crime, though it will never go away.Part I Please retell Unit 3 AR2 “ By the numbers ” within 1 minute.The writer tries to create a feeling of fear in order to warn readers of the threat involved in the ever-increasi

14、ng amounts of data on people being collected. With various stylistic devices, the writer leads readers along his thought-path step by step to the point that collecting personal information places people in peril because we dont know who collects it for what purposes. And neither do we know where the

15、 information goes and how it is used. According to the writer, identity theft is much feared in society, but there are worse things than that. And the danger is growing though it is vague, not certain. There is no balance yet between the convenience of the world and the peril that we sense in the pr

16、esence of all that information in the databases which can be employed as a weapon as well as a tool.Part I Please retellUnit 4 AR1“ Mak ing the headli neswithin 1 minute.What exactly is news? The objective importance and the historical, international significance of an event is not enough. It is the

17、 odd, unexpected and human nature that made news like 9/11 memorable and newsworthy. So is immediacy which refers to the nearness of the event in time.When it comes to immediacy, those media like TV, radio and Internet have an enormous advantage over the press. However, no matter what form it may ta

18、ke, all the media more or less covertly, influence the public. That is the so- called power of the media.In the new millennium, maybe the press or TV are not going to disappear overnight, but the power of the media may be eroded or at least devolved to ordinary people.Part I Please retell Unit 4 AR2

19、 “ The death of the newspaper?” within 1 minute.All over the English-speaking world, newspaper circulation has been confronted with a long-term trend of decline. The decline comes much from the challenge of Internet and the negative environmental impact of newspaperindustry.Thechallenge ofInternetma

20、inly focuseson itsattraction to readers and minute-by-minute adsmonitoringsystem. Butmaybe thenewspaper wont diewithoutstruggle.Besides its convenience over laptop, the demand for local news and the exploitation of lifestyle journalism will create new revenue streams.And more interestingly,the ritua

21、l of reading the newspaper has become a hard habit to break.Part I Please retell Unit 5 AR2 “The story of Anne Franks Diary ” within 1 minute.To escape from Nazi persecution of the Jews,Anne and her familly members emigrated from Germany to Holland. However, in 1940 the Germans invaded,and occupied

22、Holland. So quickly did the persecution of the Dutch Jews begin there that the Franks and another Jew family,the Van Pels went into hiding in the secret annexe. For the next two years, eight people of two families were confined to just six small rooms and could never go outside.Under such harsh circ

23、umstances,Anne continued to her diary, which she started a few weeks before they moved to the hiding. Her diary was the account of the day-to-day activity in the annexe-the suffering, but her dreams and aspirations were still there. The diary voiced a declaration of her principles and of the right t

24、o humandignity so profoundly that it was viewed as the voice of Holocaust.In August 1944,the hiding place was stormed,and Nazi officers arrested everyone. They were taken to concentration camps. Out of the eight people in hiding,Otto Frank was the only survivors, and when he found his daughter s dia

25、ry after the war, he arranged for its publication in recognitionof hercourage. Anne s writing would be a support and comfort to the world after her death.Part I Please retell Unit 6 AR1 “ My dream comes true ” within 1 minute.Standingat the vast and beautiful StadiumAustraliawas tense and excited. T

26、he feeling was fantastic since I was so close to mychildhooddream. I tried toconcentrate on the crowd and felt unifined with them. The first lap was good but mental and physical fatigue were starting to crush me on the second lap. I kept telling myself: ” two minutes,one more lap towards being the Olympic champion ” . As I crossed the line I was sure that I d just made it. Butnegative thoughts lingered in my mind. When I saw my name