最新托福口语复习材料

托福今年口语材料： 1. Friendship

1) Come up with a definition for what friendship means.

2) What are 3 qualities you want in a good friend? What are 3 qualities you don’t want in a friend? Why?

3) How and where do people in China make their closest friendships? 4) If you move to a new place, what is a good way to make new friends? 5) What advice would you give a foreigner about how to develop good friendships with Chinese people?

6) If there is a foreign volunteer in your group, ask him/her what advice he/she has about being friends with westerners. 2. Work

1) What is your ideal job? (Including: How many hours per week? What kind of benefits? Located in which city?)

2) What does it mean to be successful in your work？

3) How can you maintain good relationships with your co-workers? What qualities do you want in a co-worker?

4) If you have a problem with your boss, how can you solve it? Should you talk to him directly about your problem?

5) If a person has a good job opportunity in a city far away from his/her spouse and child, do you think he or she should take the job?

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3. Education

1) Tell your group about your most enjoyable learning experience of the past. What made it good?

2) Describe what qualities you think the ideal teacher must have. What are some aspects you don’t want in a teacher?

3) In Chinese society, do teachers have a high status or a low status? Do you think being a teacher is a good job? Why or why not?

4) Is it the teacher/school’s or the parents’ responsibility to teach a child good morals and behavior?

5) In your opinion, do men or women make better teachers?

4. Holidays

1) What is your favorite Chinese holiday? Which Western holiday most interests you?

2) Do you think holidays are very significant? What meanings are expressed by such holidays as National Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Christmas, Spring Festival and Thanksgiving?

3) What is the history of your favorite Chinese holiday? (For example, what’s the history of Dragon Boat Festival?) 4) How did you think of the National Day holiday? 5) Describe your ideal holiday.

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5. Life Stories

1) Briefly share the life story of someone you admire. Why do you admire that person? What made his/her life special?

2) Tell the highlights of your own life story. What major events in your life made you the person you are today?

3) If you could change one circumstance or event in your life, what would it be? Why?

4) Create an ‘ending’ to your life story. What are some things you want to do/accomplish before you die? How can you do/accomplish those things?

6. Rich and Poor

1) Rank the following in order of importance to you: a) health b) family c) money d) a good reputation e) education. Why did you range in that way? 2) What are the advantages and disadvantages of being rich? Do you advantages outweigh the disadvantages or vice versa?

3) Can a person be poor and happy? What do you think the hardest part about being poor would be for you if you were poor? What do think would be the hardest part about being rich?

4) Whose responsibility do you think is it to take care of the poor: their family, the government, their neighbors, everyone? 5) Has the economic crisis affected your life at all?

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7. Family

1) Describe your family, and tell your group a story about your family from your childhood.

2) Who do you think should have the highest authority in the home---the husband, the wife, or both equally share authority? If you think both should have equal authority, how should they make decisions on where to work or live if they don’t agree with each other?

3) What do you expect to do to take care of your parents when they grow old? What do you expect your child to do for you when you get old? 4) Do you think the Chinese tradition of children taking care of elderly parents will change in the future because of the One Child Policy? How can only children cope with the pressure of taking care of their parents when they are old? 8. Cities

1) Describe your hometown, and tell your group three things you like about your hometown and three things you don’t like about it.

2) If you were the mayor of your hometown, what problems would you try to solve? And how? What things would you not want to change? 3) How do you feel about Beijing? What challenges do you think Beijing will face in the next 2 years? 10 years?

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4) In your mind, which city is the ideal city? Is there a place where you’d like to live for the rest of your life?

9. Happiness

1) Define happiness. Is it a feeling, a state of being, a decision? Is happiness something that comes and goes with changing circumstances or something you can always have?

2) What things in life and the world make you happy? Why do those things make you happy? What things take away your happiness? 3) Complete the sentence: “I would be completely happy if…”

4) Are you the kind of person who actively tries to achieve or obtain the things you think will make you happy or are you more the kind of person who tries to accept your situation as it is and learn to be happy in it? Do you think it’s better to be resigned to your fate or try to change it?

10. What/If…

1) What would you do if someone accused you of a crime you didn’t commit?

2) If you could change a major historical event, what would it be? 3) What would you do if a fierce animal was going to attack you? 4) If you could be an employee of any company in the world, which company would you choose?

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5) What would you do if the person you loved didn’t love you back? 6) If you could be a bird or a fish, which would you be?

7) What would you do if it was your best friend’s wedding, but you didn’t have any money to give him/her?

8) If you had to choose one of the five senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch) to lose, which one would you choose to lose? 9) What would you do if you got lost in an unfamiliar city?

10) If you were going to a foreign country and you could only take one thing with you, what would it be?

11. Thanksgiving

1) What are the things you most grateful for in your life? 2) What person in your life do you feel the most grateful to? Why? 3) If someone helps you in a big way, how do you express your gratitude? Do you use words, gifts, treat them to dinner, etc.?

4) If you do something good for someone but they don’t express thankfulness, how do you feel? Should you do something in that situation? Is it right to expect people to be grateful?

12. Trust

1) How would you define trust? Is it just a feeling? Is it a decision? 2) How do you come to trust a person? Does trust require time and

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experience with another person or can you trust someone as soon as you meet them?

3) Who in your life do you trust the most? How has that person gained or earned your trust? If you found out that person had lied to you, would you trust them again or not?

4) Do you feel that you are trustworthy? If so, why? If not, why not? Do you think trustworthiness is a characteristic you can develop?

13. Personality

1) What kind of words can best describe your personality? Give examples for each word you choose.

2) Do you think a person’s personality results more from nature (they were born with that personality) or from nurture (their family/society/culture formed their personality)? Why? Are there certain personality traits you think result from nature and others that you think result from nurture?

3) Do you think people can change their personality through effort? (For example, can a person who is shy change his personality to be outgoing?) Can society or culture change a person’s personality?

4) If you could significantly change your personality, would you choose to? Why?

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14. Revenge Quotes on REVEGE:

“[Revenge] is sweeter far than honey.” ~ Homer

“ ‘Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.” ~Benjamin Franklin

“Sweet is revenge- especially to women.” ~ Lord Byron

“Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.” ~ Thomas Moore

1) Discuss what you think each quote means. How would you say it in your own words?

2) Do you agree more with the first quote or the second quote? Do you think these quotes contradict each other? Is it possible for revenge to be both sweet and ignoble?

3) Do you think, as the third quote says, that women enjoy revenge more than men? Why or why not?

4) Do you think that a person can take revenge on another person without there being negative consequences?

15. Parents and Kids

1) Pick three adjectives that you feel best describe your relationship with your parents. Explain why you chose those particular words.

2) How well do you think your parents did raising you? If you could

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change one thing about the way they raised you, what would it be? 3) Do you think parents should be strict with their children or lenient? What are the consequences of being too strict or too lenient? What are the consequences of not being strict or lenient enough?

4) Do you think you will be like your parents when you are 40 or 50 years old? In what ways would you like to be like them? In what ways would you like to be different?

16. Social Networking

1) What forms of social networking do you use? (QQ, Facebook, MySpace, Xiao Nei) How often do you use them?

2) What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages to different social networks? Do you think one is superior to the others? Do you feel one is particularly safe?

3) What do you primarily use these social networks for? Do you think it’s possible to maintain deep relationships only through social networks? 4) How do you think social networking has changed the way people maintain friendships? Do you think the friendships you make on a social network are as real as the ones you make in the other areas of your life?

17. Prison

1) Have you ever been to visit a prison? If so, what was it like? If not,

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what do you think a prison is like? What do you think life is like for prisoners?

2) Did you watch the show Prison Break? If so, do you think that is an accurate representation of what prison is like? Why or why not? 3) What do you think is the youngest age a person should be allowed to be sent to prison? Why do you think that’s the right age? What makes a person old enough to go to prison or too young for prison?

4) What do you think about capital punishment? If you could decide which crimes were punishable by death, which ones would you choose? Why?

18. Gender

1) When do you think a person changes from being a girl into being a woman? Is this change physical, mental, emotional, social? What characteristics do you think of as being very feminine?

2) When do you think a boy becomes a man? Are there any rites of passage in your culture that demonstrate a person has become an adult in the social sense? What characteristics are masculine?

3) What personality traits or characteristics do you think are just neutral- neither masculine nor feminine? Do you think some people have more neutral characteristics than masculine or feminine ones?

4) If you could be born again as the opposite gender, would you choose to?

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