炎熱的5月，見證了BEC高級(jí)考生揮汗如雨的奮戰(zhàn)。我在北外考場(chǎng)以口語考官的身份，考差了14對(duì)、28人的高級(jí)口語。下面是一些點(diǎn)評(píng)。
　　問過姓名之后，就是Where are you from？
　　這道題，我的考場(chǎng)都是正確反應(yīng)：
　　I am from Sichuan, China.
　　其它考場(chǎng)有的人說I'm from Ren Min University.答成了自己的學(xué)校。
　　第一部分有兩套題，其中那個(gè)第一套題和去年一樣，沒有變化：
　　Work or Studies:
　　- What you find most interesting about your job or course
　　- About your future career plans
　　- Why you decided to learn English
　　- About your ideal kind of employer *
　　- Why you chose your particular career
　　- About the place where you work or study. *
　　其中畫有*的題目有的考生沒有理解。ideal kind of employer不一定需要考生是有工作的，因?yàn)樗趩?“你理想的雇主具有哪些特點(diǎn)”，即使是在校生，也可以發(fā)表自己的意見、有的可說；學(xué)習(xí)或工作的地方，有的人沒有思路，有的人有思路但是調(diào)理不清楚,用詞也沒有注意到質(zhì)量。 下面是比較好的答案：
　　- About your ideal kind of employer *
　　Well, for me, I would like to join a company where there are well-developed training programs for young people. After all, money is not higly prioritized for someone fresh from school. Rather, gaining experience and qualification would be more important.
　　其中 In my opinion, opinion的發(fā)音有的人讀錯(cuò)，重音、卷舌音亂來；As far as I'm conerned有的人說成了 as far as I am concern, 這也是錯(cuò)的。
　　- About the place where you work or study. *
　　I am a student in the Renmin University and I study fianance in the School of Finance. What I am most proud of my university is the prestige, which has been built over years with joint efforts from the school administration, professors and scholars as well as from business owners. ...
　　Type 2 Could you tell me
　　- How important you think imports are for people in your country
　　imports 的含義有些考生沒有理解，那就是“進(jìn)口”；理解后，也有人回答的不扣題。大部分人都能想到引進(jìn)先進(jìn)技術(shù)，但是英文的表述欠缺，下面這個(gè)回答較好：
　　Needless to say, imports play an essential role in economic development of China. In 1980s, China has just started the open-door policy and imports and exports started to become more dynamic. There are three significant aspects impacted by imports. The first one is in culture. Imported TV programs from Japan, US and some European countries brighten up the TV screens. The earliest ones include A Xin, produced in Japan, which is a biography of a ternacious woman named A Xin, who thrived the ups and downs in her life through hard-working. Another one , Man fromt the Atlantis, produced in the US, is a science fiction.
　　The 2nd aspect is in commodities. Brand names such as Maxim, a French brand, and McDonald's, the fast food chain, entred the Chinese market. Later on, a lot of other well-known big names followed suit.
　　Lastly,new technologies in car-making, information technologies were also imported initially, though numerous solutions and innovations have been developed locally by Chinese later on.

- What you think the advantages are for people in your country of spending time working abroad
　　這個(gè)題目許多人都能想到開闊眼界等，用詞也比較俗
　　Working abroad offers a variety of benefits to people in general, including the Chinese.
　　Firslty, it allows people to get a global vision, which is an assets nowadays, when globalisation is taking place at a rapid rate. Specifically speaking, it is not uncommon to find foreign companies in China or doing business with Chinese counterparts. A global perspective will certainly help communications among multi-national team members.
　　Secondly, people can sharpen their English language skills. Needless to say, English is the working language in the world and working in another contry enables people to get more exposure language-wise. It is obvious that the workers would use the language to serve a purpose in their job, rather than learning it from a text book. Such practice of language will certainly polish their English.
　　Last but not least, people may understand different cultures better. When living and working abroad, people hava an opportunity to closely observe the local way of life, to be more exact, how people handle their daily tasks and how they do so differently between cultures. Something as simple as cutting a grape fruit could demonstrate such a difference.
　　- Whether you think the use of mobile phones for business is always positive in your country
　　這個(gè)題目有一個(gè)陷阱：always,哪里有一成不變的事情呢？所以客觀的回答應(yīng)該說手機(jī)在工作中大多數(shù)情況下是有用的，但是它也有一些不利于工作的地方。
　　Generally, mobile phones are quite useful in daily work. As known to all, people send text message, exchange emails and check maps on cell phones, which come in quite handy. However, I wouldn't say it is ALWAYS useful. A case in point is that when people attend meetings ,they get distracted by the messages on their cell phones, not to mention phone calls which are not urgent nor important. Besides distraction, it increases stress for cell phone users. People are on call all the time, which resulted in a dim line between life and work. By that I mean, employees are always on the work mode. Gradually, stress may lead to reduced productivity.
　　- How important you think language training will be in your country in future
　　這道題很不容易答出彩，大多數(shù)人都去說成英語的培訓(xùn)，而題目是討論“語言培訓(xùn)”。所以，可以說中文的培訓(xùn)、溝通技巧、郵件、手機(jī)短信中的語言規(guī)范化等等，甚至是商務(wù)應(yīng)用文的寫作等等。
　　其它比較集中的問題有：
　　image, product的重音應(yīng)該是Image, PROduct；
　　important 的替換詞。
　　此次考試答得綜合比較好的是學(xué)德語和阿拉伯語的同學(xué)，兩個(gè)男生，英語專業(yè)的只有一個(gè)還比較好，其他人距離高級(jí)的要求還有些差距。總之，在我經(jīng)手的14對(duì)考生中，10對(duì)左右時(shí)通過口語考試的。