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<interlocutor interlocutor=female> </interlocutor>
<spall> Good afternoon. </spall>
<interlocutor> Could you please tell me your name and the number of your admission ticket? </interlocutor>
<sp1> My name is *** and my number is all of them? </sp1>
<interlocutor> Only the last four figures. </interlocutor>
<sp1> Er and 0465 </sp1>
<sp2> My name is ***, my number is 0473. </sp2>
<sp3> My name is ***, my number is 0480. Thank you. </sp3>
<interlocutor> Now would you please briefly introduce yourselves to each other? Remember, you should not mention the name of your university. </interlocutor>
<sp1> OK, shall I begin now? My name is *** and my English name is Edna and I studied Swedish. I come from South China. I have been here for only half, er er about half a year. And I studied language and I like this city and er before I came here, I don't like what is Beijing. Now I know the idea Beijing is a very great city and old and culture city. </sp1>
<sp2> Mm my name is ***, I er I am a sophomore. I I major in chemical engineering. Mm I like [Wi-ae] planting flowers. I think flowers are my sisters. Mm, I'm growing up with them, I have planted flowers for twelve year, that's all, thank you. </sp2>
<interlocutor> Uh-huh, thank you and ***. </interlocutor>
<sp3> I hope you enjoy this hot afternoon just as I am. Well, to be honest, I like autumn for ??? warm August, which people called golden autumn, right? So I like it. Well er today, I am happy to sit here for I have met some new friends and talk with them is really happy. Er I my hobby we say I like English and music, you see, er I have got some prizes in the speech competition in English. So I like it. And I can play a little guitar. </sp3>
<interlocutor> OK, I think that's enough. </interlocutor>
<sp3> Thank you. </sp3>
<interlocutor> Thank you. OK, now that we know each other, we can do some group work. First of all, I'd like to ask each of you to say something about holidays. Now ***, do you like going on the tour during holidays? </interlocutor>
<sp1> Of course, it's my favorite. </sp1>
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<interlocutor> Why? </interlocutor>
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<sp1>Because I can see I can meet peoples, I can see the great place of interest and see different cultures. And I can enjoy myself during and relax myself during the tour. </sp1>
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<interlocutor> uh-huh, that's all? </interlocutor>
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<sp1> er and also I'll er enjoy myself and en-enrich my knowledge in my country or or some place else. </sp1>
<interlocutor> Uh-huh, thank you. Now er ***, er what kind of people like touring most? </interlocutor>
<sp2> Er the people who are rich and ??? maybe. I think the traveling is based is based on mm money and time. If you have enough time, energy [W1e-ae] and money, you can traveling, but for example, me, am not rich enough so I haven't enough money to go travelings, although I like the it very much. But I think I'll er come to er my dream one day, that's all. </sp2>
<interlocutor> Thank you. Now ***, why do you think more and more foreigners are visiting China now? </interlocutor>
<sp3> Because I think China is developing these days, we have entered the WTO and we are going to host the great Olympic in 2008. And my hometown in South of China I think it's very beautiful and always have many foreigners to come visit my my er to my hometown. To China I think because we have great environment we have friendly people and have this kind of source of tourism, so I think foreign friends like to visit us. </sp3>
<interlocutor> Uh-huh, thank you. Now, let's move on to something more specific. The topic for our discussion today is going on a tour. Each of you will be given a card with four pictures showing places of interest in China. I'd like you to state your reasons for visiting these places. You'll have one minute to prepare and each of you will have one and half minutes to give your presentation. Don't worry if I interrupt you when time is up. OK. Now here are your cards. ***, it's yours. </interlocutor>
<sp1> Thank you. </sp1>
<interlocutor> ***, yours. </interlocutor>
<sp2> Thank you. </sp2>
<interlocutor> Yours. </interlocutor>
<sp3> Thank you. </sp3>
<sp1> Shall I choose one or talking about all? </sp1>
<interlocutor> You can now please read the sentence there, state the reasons. </interlocutor>
<sp1> OK. Thank you. </sp1>
<Interlocutor> Now ***, would you please begin? *** and ***, please put your cards aside yeah, and listen to what *** has to say. </Interlocutor>
<sp1> Er shall I shall them the names of the picture? </sp1>
<interlocutor> Of course, you can. </interlocutor>
<sp1> Er it's the following four pictures. It is a famous er place of interest in Beijing, you know. The first one is the Great Wall. Er maybe Great Wall is is shown to is known to all the world because it can be seen from the satellite. So Beijing er the Great Wall is famous for its lord the land and it is built up it is the the Great Wall of our of our Chinese people. It is built many ago, so it is a place that mention the the works the hardworks of our Chinese people and the Chinese spirit, so we must vi-visit this place. And the following is the sum- Palace Museum, it is the palace of the of the many many er many kings of dynasty. So it is a place er where where they er they er stayed and er and er handled the daily er er affairs. So it is a place of er that we must er visit during the tour. And then the follow is the summer palace. My favorite place is the Summer Palace for it's green and it is atmospheres [S3] very relax. If you want to er relax yourself er during the tour, it is a it is a better place to visit. It has the in in this er palace place, you can find a long er corridor [W2o-er], and that has many pictures on it. It's written as is a some er some say some tellings of old China and mentioned many many old stories that happen in the Ming and Qing dynasty. It's a very er very vivi-vivid, so it's a place to visit and it's very great. </sp1>
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<interlocutor> Sorry I have to interrupt you here. Thank you. Now ***, it's your turn. </interlocutor>
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<sp3> OK. I am show your my four pictures here. First of all, we say Hangzhou, West Lake. I think this is a very famous of place of interest for er we know Hangzhou has very wonderful climate, people all like to visit there. Among those, West Lake is very famous for its beautiful scene. We have ten ten beautiful scenes in in Hangzhou and West Lake is one of them, so I think hope you will went there one day. And next we say Guilin. Guilin's scenery it's very beautiful we say and we have this saying that Gui-Guilin Guilin is the most beautiful place in China. er so I think mm it's a pity that I haven't went there before, but my mother went there once, she tells she told me that there were some some beautiful mm places just like the mountains have beautiful figures even as the elephant is very interesting. And third we have this mountain mountain er Taishan. Er it's in Jiangsu I think. It's very high and we say that ??? people like to visiting mountains because it make us feel calm down and I hope I will go there one day. It had many beautiful clouds like er er it's famous I think in in Jiangsu and </sp3>
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<interlocutor> Shandong. </interlocutor>
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<sp3> Er sorry. Er I made a mistake. It's in Shandong, so next mm we come to Beidai He. Erm it's I think it's a place for us to spend our summer holidays there. It's very cool and people likes swimming went there. It has very beautiful seaside and the sand there is very very white and very er how to say it's very erm comfortable for us to walk on the seaside. Yes, I think all these together are very great places hope we will have the chance to went one day, thank you. </sp3>
<interlocutor> OK, thank you. Now ***, it's your turn. </interlocutor>
<sp2> Oh, er this are the four greatest cities in our [Wour-oer] country. Er you know, they are Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dalian. Er you know Beijing is the culture and erm politic center of country. It's beautiful and has a long history. Erm er it has many [Wa-ae] interest place of interest mm and we all live here. We all like this city. Mm and er Shanghai is the economic center of country. You know it's rich and it develops mm very much, er quicker quick. And mm mm ranhou, sorry erm erm Guangzhou Guangzhou is mm one [Wone-waen] of the one [Wone-waen] of the city which developed mm quickest. And it's beautiful [W2u-i], it has many [Wa-ae] mansions, mm er many [Wa-ae] er economic markets. Erm  and also Dalian, Dalian is the most beautiful city in our country. In my opinion, mm it has the most fresh [We-ae] air [Wair-aer], er it has the largest mm square in our country mm and it also has many [Wa-ae] universities is er. </sp2>
<interlocutor> Sorry I have to interrupt you here. All right, now we all have some idea of the reasons for visiting these places. I'd like you to discuss this topic further and see if you can agree on what way is college students like to tour most. During the discussion you may agree with each other, argue with each other or ask each other questions to clarify a point. You will have about four and a half minutes for the discussion. Your performance will be judged according to your contribution to the discussion. Remember, during the discussion, you should try to come to an agreement on what places college students would like to tour most. Now you start. </interlocutor>
<sp1> I wan- I want to, in my opinion the place of the place of interest is famous first and it is relaxable for students to go on. And maybe first is the economy problem, maybe it's cheap. </sp1>
<sp3> Yeah, I agree. </sp3>
<sp1> First it's cheap to go, maybe it is er er is challenging. </sp1>
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<sp3> Challenging? </sp3>
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<sp1> Of course. It must be er full of energy an-and live we must go such kind of places. </sp1>
<sp3> Young people like such kind of places, you see. </sp3>
<sp1> Of course. </sp1>
<sp3> But in my opinion, I prefer my friends told me that we want to go to seaside. For er you know, seaside is not very far, especially we mm we in Beijing we have got this chance so we like to go to seaside. And we can swim for er you know it's summer already. Went went to seaside won't cost much. We just mm take a few luggage thing with us and enjoy ourselves ???. What do you think? </sp3>
<sp2> I'd like [Wi-ae] to go to the place that close to the nature [Wture-ter]. </sp2>
<sp3> Nature? </sp3>
<sp2> Yeah. </sp2>
<sp1> The sea is close to the nature also. </sp1>
<sp2> Yeah, I like the mountain [Wou-o]. Er. </sp2>
<sp1> Maybe sometimes mountain is very challenging and very tired. But when we can climb the high moun-, high mountains, we can see the sunrise and sun sunset down is very great. </sp1>
<sp2> Yeah, it's very spec- </sp2>
<sp1> Have you been ever er which er mountain is China? Have you been the </sp1>
<sp2> Er maybe Huangshan. </sp2>
<sp1> Huangshan is great. </sp1>
<sp3> Also It's a pity I have not been there. </sp3>
<sp1> I haven't also. </sp1>
<sp3> I hope I can have this chance, but I went to er several er seaside. Xiamen. </sp3>
<sp1> I went to Dalian, Da Dalian.</sp1>
<sp3> Oh, no. I went to Xiamen, it's very beautiful there. </sp3>
<sp1> Because I'd live in Guangdong, so I have been the chances to swim in the in the seaside. </sp1>
<sp2> I went to Tianjin, ohit is not so beautiful. </sp2>
<sp1> Tianjin, the polu- the pollution is very great so </sp1>
<sp2> But it is the closest. Yeah, nearest also. </sp2>
<sp3> May may I ask that do you prefer to go to mountains or go to seaside? </sp3>
<sp1> Mm, in my opinion, going to a seaside is is better. </sp1>
<sp3> So do I. </sp3>
<sp2> I'd like to go to mountain. </sp2>
<sp1> The sunshine, the water and people and can swim. Yes, it is very great. </sp1>
<sp2> I will I will find many [Wa-ae] kinds of er herbs and anything else and I like that. </sp2>
<sp3> I think climb mountains is also very interesting, but it's too tired. </sp3>
<sp1> Sometimes it is dangerous. I heard the ??? ???. </sp1>
<sp2> Lose weight yeah. </sp2>
<sp1> I heard that it's horrible. </sp1>
<sp3> You see, we have dangers all over there. If we went to swim, it is also dangerous. </sp3>
<sp1> But in my opinion. </sp1>
<sp3> I wouldn't care, so tra- while traveling, we have to take care. So I think went to went to seaside is more is more well is more comfortable. </sp3>
<sp1> If I have chances, I will go erm I will go to the Tibet, maybe it is challenging. And it is great and to taste on the the the plant and the high mountains and sheeps and taste taste on the sheeps. </sp1>
<sp3> Unluckily, there is no sheep. </sp3>
<sp1> The people is very friendly. </sp1>
<sp3> Yeah, I agree. </sp3>
<sp2> But I would like to go to Shanghai. I do miss go to Shanghai to university, but I failed. I came to Beijing, but I fell in love [Wv-w] with this city. </sp2>
<sp1> But in my opinion, my hometown is the my hometown Guangzhou is the best city in China because it has the favorable cli- er climate [Wi-i] [Mte]. </sp1>
<sp3> Could we come to this conclusion that we agree to prefer seaside. </sp3>
<sp1> Seaside, yeah, maybe. </sp1>
<sp3> Yeah. I think we have this conclusion. Thank you. </sp3>
<interlocutor> OK. OK. Thank you. That's the end of the discussion. Now er ***, I'd like to ask you just one last question on the topic of going on a tour. Er have you ever thought of traveling abroad? </interlocutor>
<sp2> Yes, I have. So </sp2>
<interlocutor> Where would you like to go first? </interlocutor>
<sp2> Mm I can't afford the money. And I'd like to go to abroad after my graduate. Er. </sp2>
<interlocutor> That is where [Were-aier] would you like to go first. </interlocutor>
<sp2> Sorry, I'd like to go to mm Australia. There are many mm animal there. I like that. I like mm I like animals and mm he-herbs, so I'd like to come to that place of full of the things mm and Australia is very beautiful and the air is very fresh [We-ae]. And also there are many good universities there. Mm I'd like to go to the country mm for my development [W2e-ae]. </sp2>
<interlocutor> Uh-huh, that's all. </interlocutor>
<sp2> Yeah. </sp2>
<interlocutor> OK. Now that's the end of the test. Thank you everybody. </interlocutor>
<spall> Thank you. </spall>
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