This is an oral test; please discuss the following questions after reading it. a) What are the oral skills being tested in each item test? b) What are the oral skills it generally tests? c) Whether this oral test can really test the oral ability? Answer: a) 1). Item I is asking the students to read sentences with right intonation and stress, it is to test the micro-linguistic skill of pronunciation . 2). Item II is asking students to give the correct answers of invitation, apology, thanks, and regret ; it is mainly to test the routine skills. 3). Item III asks students to write sentences according to the picture, it aims to test the micro-linguistic skills of grammar, vocabulary and some routine skills happed in real life. b) Item I is to test the Micro-linguistic skill of pronunciation, item II is to test the routine skills of invitation, apology, thanks, and regret. Item III is to test the micro-linguistic skills and routine skills. So, this oral test generally tests the micro-linguistic skills, and some routine skills. c) This oral test cannot really test the oral ability, because it only tests two levels of oral ability: some routine skills and lots of micro-linguistic skills, but it cannot test/hasn’t tested the improvisation skills.