全国创新英语大赛初赛试题

第十二届全国创新英语大赛初赛试题（一）

Telling lies for a better world?

Lies have a bad reputation. Telling the truth is normally consideredto be

a good thing. One conventional view of lying is that it is bad initself and

should

be

avoided

at

all

costs.

Another

conventional

viewis

that

the

consequences of lying are often bad, so lying should beavoided except in

extreme

circumstances.

In

the

past

two

decades,though,

a

number

of

authors have challenged conventional wisdom,arguing that lying is not as

bad as normally thought and that a

number

of

other

beliefs

about

lying

are

misunderstood.

Awell-known

study

even

shows

that

an

ordinary

person

tells

threelies

every

ten

minutes.

So what is your opinion of telling lies? How is your relationship withthem?

What

do

you

do

when

being

lied

to?

And

more

importantly,when

and

how do you choose to lie?Please write your view on the topic with about

300 words. You canadd a title by yourself.

第十二届全国创新英语大赛初赛试题（二）

Recently,

a

book

named

“THE

7

HABITS

OF

HIGHLY

EFFECTIVEPEOPLE”

became

one

of

the

best-sellers

in

book

stores.

It

aims

topresent

some

powerful lessons in personal change to people incontemporary society.

Habit 1: Be Proactive

Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

Habit 3: Put First Things First

Habit 4: Think Win-Win

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood

Habit 6: Synergize

（统合综效）

Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

（不断更新）

What

do

you

think

of

the

role

of

effectiveness

in

your

life

and

study?Have

you

ever

benefited

from

one

of

the

habits

mentioned

in

thebook in your daily life? You are invited to write a composition inabout

300 words concerning the topic above. Your compositionshould be given

a

title

and

it

should

contain

your

personalexperiences.

Marks

will

be

graded for content, organization,language and appropriateness.

第十二届全国创新英语大赛复赛口语试题

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选编

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1. Tell me about your favorite song or singer.

Cues: What is the song? / Who is the singer?

Why do you like the song / the singer?

Do you remember the first you heard the song?/ you met the singer?

2. Tell me about the most unforgettable thing that happened in your life.

Cues: When and where did it take place?

What made it unforgettable?

What did you get from it?

3. Tell me about your hometown.

Cues: Where is your hometown?

What is the distinguishing feature of your hometown?

What is the biggest problem of your hometown?

4. Tell me about your ways to release stress.

Cues: What makes you feel stressful?

How do you release it?

What is the effect?

5. Tell me about your ideal work.

Cues: What is your ideal work?

What constitutes its specific charm?

How do you think you can get such an ideal work?

6. Tell me about something you did that made your parents angry.

Cues: Give a brief account.

How did you feel about it?

What have you learned from it?

me about a strict person you ever met.

Cues: Who is the strict person?

In what sense is he strict?

Is it good to be a strict person?

8. Tell me about your opinions about the generation gap.

Cues: What is the generation gap between you and your parents?

Give an example to illustrate the gap.

What are the causes for the gap?

9. Tell me about your opinions on pocket money.

Cues: Do you think parents should give children pocket money?

Elaborate on the supporting reasons for your opinion.

If your answer is yes, what should parents do about the money to avoid

spoiling the children?

10. Tell me about a pet you keep or you want to keep.

Cues: What is the pet you keep or you want to keep?

Why do you keep or want to keep it

？

What do you do/will you do to keep it well?

12. Tell me about your favorite season.

Cues: What is your favorite season?

What makes it your favorite?

What was the most memorable thing you did in such a season?

13. Tell me about your favorite TV program.

Cues: What TV programs do you often watch?

What programs are you fond of watching most?

What have you learned from these programs?

me

about

your

understanding

of

“Afriend

in

need

is

a

friend

indeed”.

Cues: What is the meaning of the proverb?

Do you have such a friend in your life?

Why do you think he/she is such a friend?

15. Tell me about the best place you have been to.

Cues: What is the place?

Why do you like it so much?

Compare it with your hometown.

16. Tell me about opinion on one-child policy.

Cues: What is the benefit of one-child policy?

What is the most serious problem with such a policy?

Do you have some suggestions to tackle the problem?

17. Tell me about your hobbies to kill the time.

Cues: What do you usually do when you are free?

Why do you love doing them?

If you have alternative choice, will you try something new?

18. Tell me about your life goal.

Cues: What is your life goal?

Why do you set such a goal?

What will you do to achieve your goal?

19. Tell me about a girl/boy who left best impression.

Cues: Who is he/she?

How did you meet him/her?

What made him/her so impressive to you?

20. Tell me about the clothes you life most.

Cues: What kind of clothes are you fond of?

Why do you like them most?

Do you care about brand when you buy clothes?

21. Tell me about the happiest moment in your life.

Cues: What is the happiest moment in your life?

What made you so happy?

What do you think you should do to keep the happiness?

me about the difference between formal and informal party.

Cues: What is a formal party like?

What is an informal party like?

Which do you prefer to attend? Why?

me about your favorite food.

Cues: What is your favorite food?

Why do you like it most?

Do you remember the first time when you had it?

24. Tell me about your opinion about mistakes.

Cues: What mistakes have you made?

How did you do with them?

What have you learned from them?

25. Tell me about your opinion on wealth.

Cues: What role does wealth play in life?

Do you agree with the saying that everyone lives for pursuing wealth?

Do you think wealth brings happiness?

26. Tell me about your understandings of the qualities of good parents.

Cues: What are the essential characters of good parents?

Do your parents have such characters?

Give examples to illustrate your parents’good qualities.

27. Tell me about your opinion on celebrity.

Cues: Which do you prefer, an ordinary person or a celebrity?

Why?

Do you know a celebrity who dreams of becoming an ordinary person?

28. Tell me about your ways to resist temptation when shopping.

Cues:

Have

you

had

an

experience

of

struggling

against

temptation

in

shopping?

Give an account of such an experience.

What did you to do to resist it?

29.

Tell

me

about

your

comment

on

the

claim

that

honesty

is

out

of

style.

Cues: Do you agree with the claim?

Why?

In what situations do you feel we can tell white lies?

me about your favorite holiday.

Cues: What is your favorite holiday?

Why do you like it?

How do you celebrate it?

第十二届全国创新英语大赛复赛作文试题

Directions: Are you a person who is always delivering positive energy

to the people around you or sending negative messages or emotions to

your friends? Or what kind of people do you expect to have around you?

Please write an article within no less than 300 words to present your

opinion on the topic. You can add a title by yourself.