大学英语口语测试oral test.docVIP

Ⅰ. Read Passage. Read the following story, and then retell it. Two friends were walking through the desert. During their journey, they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other. Without saying anything, the injured friend wrote in the sand: “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept on walking, until they found a place with water and trees. They decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped ventured too far into the water and became stuck in the deep mud and was drowning, but his friend saved him. After he recovered from the incident, he carved into a stone: “Today my friend saved my life.” The friend, who had both slapped and saved his best friend, asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand, and now, you write on a stone. Why?” The friend replied: “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand, where the wind can wipe it away, but when someone does something good for us, we must carve it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.” Interview with God I dreamed I had an interview with God. “So you would like to interview me?” God asked“If you have the time” I said.God smiled“My time is eternity”“What questions do you have in mind for me?”“What surprises you most about humankind?...”God answered...“That they get bored with childhood. They rush to grow up and then long to be children again.”“That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.”“That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future.”That they live as if they will never die, and die as if they had never lived.”God’s hand took mine and we were silent for a while And then I asked...“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons you want your children to learn?”God replied with a smile“To learn they cannot make anyone love them. What they can do is let themselves be loved.”“To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.