电大资源网《英语口语(1)》形成性考核册作业3答案2025年春

 作业（三）简短陈述

Choose one of the topics from the following list and give your opinions orally in class. Your tald should last for about 3 minutes. Your performance will be assessed by both your fellow students in groups and your tutor.

 

1、How have your spending habits changed the last ten years?

Chinese people tend to make an amount of money that is appropriate for

Chineseliving standards and costs. Traditionally, Chinese like to save money for future useand for the old and the young.. Therefore this same amount of money would notallow them to live in another country. Chinese spending habits has changed a lot.In the past ten years. One is habit of “going Dutch” which means “share the bill”or “share the cost of the meal”. In china, people were not used to it in the past.

Men used to be generous to pay the dills. But now, with the development of the Women’s liberation, more and more women would like to “go Dutch” to be equalto men.

2.       What are the important manners that we should observe in public?

In public we should observe all public regulations, such as traffic regulations, we

should stand in line. We should not litter parks or public areas. There should be no

spitting. If you need to spit, use a tissue or your handkerchief. In crowded areas,

do not push or shove. Do not speak in a loud voice.

3.       What’s something unusual or special about your family?

You can talk about the style of your family: nuclear family/extended family/blended family/single-parent family. If you are the only child in your family, you can talk

about the “Four-Two-One syndrome”.

4.       What differences do you know between family life in China and that in the Western countries?

Family life in china:

Today young people prefer to live independently, although family relations with their parents are still very close. On Sundays, at weekends and during the holidays, the young couple will come over and stay for the whole day and leave in the evening. Or they may travel back to their hometown during the weekend. During the spring Festival, family reunion is very important. Sometimes retired grandparents will take up the responsibility of looking after the grandchild when the young couple are busy working. They may also give some financial help to the struggling young couple.

On the other hand, it is the duty of the younger generation to give financial help and care to the old during illness, etc. The relationship is usually warm and close. Young people are considered immoral if they do mot show respect to their parents and give them care. Old people are mot sent to old people’s homes unless they are childless.

However society is changing. The one-child policy will bring on new problems .Working people being the only child will not have the time to care for the old.They will not have to resort to new ways to solve the problem.

Family life in the western countries:

In American families, teenagers usually leave home around the age of18, when they are legally considered adults, or when they finish high school. Many leave home to pursue a college education or to pursue a job. Many of these young adults face hardships, especially

Financial, so they often continue to depend on their families for some financial and material assistance. Even though many live away from home, they continue to depend on their parents and siblings fro emotional support and feelings of security. These ties are continued through visits, phone calls, and letters. The family ties remain important throughout life. The parents are often sad to see their children leave home, but they feel they must encourage and teach them to be independent and self-reliant, much as a mother bird must push her young birds out of their nest to teach them to fly. When children leave home, the parents feel very lonely; this has been given the name “empty-nest syndrome” in reference to the similar situation with birds.

In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of young adults who return to live with their parents after many years of living on their own. This is often due to financial hardships, loss of job, etc. These people have sometimes been called “boomerangers”, because like the Australian boomerang when thrown into the air, these people come back to the place from which they began.

5.       What are the benefits of an only-child family and a multiple-child family? Do you think being an “only child” is good or bad? 

Benefits of being an only child: the family may have more monetary resources for that child’s future.

Benefits of multiple-child families: mutual support now and in the future; playmates for children.

When parents age, both children can help support their parents. When the parents are no longer around, the children can give each other the support and encouragement the parents once gave.

6.       Do you believe that women are able to accomplish most of the things that men are able to do? Why or why not?

Yes.

In the West Women won their independence mot so long ago. After a long bitter struggle, they now enjoy the same educational opportunities as men in most parts of the world. They have proved repeatedly that they are equal and often superior to men in almost every field. Though this hard-fought battle for recognition has been won, women continue to be regarded as second as second-rate citizens even in the most progressive societies.

Since the 1950s,there has undoubtedly been a greater sharing of household tasks and decision making between the husband and wife in the U.K. Also many more women than men have entered the labor force in recent years. Between1971and 1990 the number of women in the labor force  rose by 3million while the number of men rose by only 300 thousand. In1990 there were 15 million economically active women.65% of married women were in paid emplovment.

Actually women have succeeded in any job you care to name. As politicians soldiers, doctors, factory hands, university professors, company directors, lawyers, scientists and presidents and presidents of countries, they have succeeded brilliantly in addition to bearing and rearing children.

7.       What are the benefits of emails?

Fast service at a low cost; no looking for stamps or envelops or paper when you write a letter, no standing in line at the post office.

8.       What’s your hobby/hobbies?

Children can collect things, go hiking, raise pets or plants, make models, etc. Adults can work on computers or cars, take up photography, build things, etc.(see page 122, in the textbook challenge to Speak 1)

9.       What’s your plan for this evening/this weekend/your next holiday? (You can talk about what you plan to do and what you don’t plan to do.)

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