关于2013年12月组织学术型硕士研究生学位英语考试的通知
各学院：
经研究决定，我校将在2013年12月举行硕士学位英语考试，现将有关事项通知如下：
一、考试对象
2011级和2012级全日制学术型硕士研究生未通过硕士学位英语考试者。
二、考试时间
考试安排和地点考前另行通知。
三、考试形式
1、考试形式：笔试（占85%）和口试（占15%）
2、考试题型
笔试：听力（20%）、阅读理解（20%）、翻译（20%）、写作（25%）
口试：题目以涉及社会、文化、历史、经济、生活等有关的话题。每组口试题为10个，口试topics考前一个月下发给考生准备，口试时由每组考生随机抽取1个topic，考试以5人为一组的小组讨论方式进行，考生自由发言，最后，每位考生用1分钟时间总结自己的观点。考官根据考生小组讨论中的表现评分，考生不能背诵课文式的发表观点，每组考生考试时间在15—20分钟。口试topics附后。
四、报名程序
未通过学位英语考试的研究生填写《2013年12月硕士学位英语考试报名表》（此表可在研究生院网站下载或向所在学院领取），请于
五、有关事项
1、请各学院及时把本通知传达到相关研究生，以免错过考试机会。
2、请报名参加考试的研究生认真复习，努力备考，争取顺利通过硕士学位英语考试。
3、2013级学术型硕士研究生不能参加本次考试，修完英语课程学分（一年）后于2014年6月参加学位英语考试。
附：口试topics
研究生院
二0一三年
2013年12月硕士学位英语考试口试topics
1、Some parents prefer to live with their children or grandchildren so that they can be taken care of. Do you want to live with your parents and look after them? Why or why not?
2、You may have learned English for more than ten years. What’s your biggest problem in learning English and what have you done to deal with it?
3、Reading books is a good habit. We can learn a lot by reading different kinds of books. Do you read books very often? Introduce the books which you are most interested in.
4、Many people like travelling, which helps them learn more about what they didn’t know before. If you have enough money and free time, where do you want to visit and why?
5、Some people choose to live in the city; others choose to live in the countryside. Where do you want to live? What’s your dream house?
6、Seeing movies is a good choice in weekends. What kind of movies are you interested in? Can you introduce one of them?
7、Childhood is a good memory that we will never forget. Please tell us something about your childhood. What do you cherish most?
8、In North America, the normal retirement age is 65, but this varies widely with individual circumstance and preferences. Some professionals can afford to retire as early as 50 and devote their time to a second career or pursue other interest such as travel or volunteer work. What’s your idea about it? What’s your choice about retirement? Why?
9、There are a lot of reports about people’s sub healthy problems. The reason might be that people ignore doing sports regularly. Do you have some good suggestions for them?
10、Some women often complain about doing housework since their husbands never do it at all. What’s your opinion about doing housework? Do you have some good suggestions for both married men and women?
