复试都会考什么领域的短文呢。新东方在线今天整理了一篇短文朗读的练习题目，帮你练习考研复试英语口语。
First listen and then repeat it.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” These are the words used by the English writer Charles Dickens to describe the world after the Industrial Revolution. Today, we also live in a world of contradictions. On the one hand, with growing material wealth and advances in science and technology, human civilization has developed as never before. On the other hand, frequent regional conflicts, global challenges like terrorism and refugees, as well as poverty, unemployment and widening income gap have all added to the uncertainties of the world.
【中文大意】
“这是最 好的时代，也是最坏的时代”，英国文学家狄更斯曾这样描述工业革命发生后的世界。今天，我们也生活在一个矛盾的世界之中。一方面，物质财富不断积累，科技进步日新月异，人类文明发展到历史最高水平。另一方面，地区冲突频繁发生，恐怖主义、难民潮等全球性挑战此起彼伏，贫困、失业、收入差距拉大，世界面临的不确定性上升。
上面的考研复试英语口语练习题，取材自习大大在2017年达沃斯论坛的演讲，此类跟时事有关的国家政要新闻演讲，是经常考的话题，无论在考研复试中，还是在研究生阶段考试。