面试英语：业余爱好Interests and Hobbies篇面试英语：业余爱好Interests and Hobbies篇 Interests and Hobbies I: Do you have any special interests other than your job?
C: Yes.
Taking pictures is my special interest.
/ Yes.
My chief interest is watching horse-races.
/ Yes.
Music and painting are my two great interests inltfe.
I: What are your personal interests?
C: My personal interests are collecting coins and stamps.
/ Table tennis and swimming are my personal interests.
/ My chief personal interest is to collect antiques.
I: Do you have a hobby?
C: Yes.
I like reading and fishing.
/ Yes.
I enjoy listening to classical music.
/ Yes.
I'm fond of calligraphy.
I: What kinds of hobbies do you have?
C: I like collecting calligraphical works and paintings.
/ I enjoy sports.
/ I'm fond of playing the piano.
I: What are your hobbies?
C: My hobbies are cooking every day and dancing on weekends.
/ Playing chess is my hobby.
/ Playing computer games and playing bridge are my two great hobbies.
I: What do you do when you are not working?
C: I usually read books or straighten my house or go shopping.
/ On weekends I sometimes make an excursion to the suburbs with my family.
/ I often go mountain-climbing with rny friends on Sundays.
I: How do you spend your free (leisure, spare ) time?
C: I play the violin together with a group of friends.
/ I run or play basketball or do something else like that to get some exercises to keep fit.
/ I spend my free time in doing some sculpture with clay.
I: What do you do for recreation?
C: I sometimes go to the sing-high club on weekends.
/ I usually listen to pop music for recreation.
/ In summer I like swimming and in winter I generally play football.
I: How do you entertain yourself after work?
C: I usually watch TV for entertainment.
/ I sometimes go to the concert (theater, cinema) with my family.
/ I generally entertain myself in sports ( reading,painting).
I: What kinds of sports do you like?
And do you play or watch?
C: I enjoy almost all sports.
And prefer playing to watching.
/ I like gymnastics.
I was on the gymastics team all through middle school.
/ I'm a football fan.
But I don't play and just enjoy watching football matches.
I: What kinds of books do you like?
C: I like detective novels.
/ I'm fond of scientific fiction.
/ I enjoy readittg biographies, especially those of well known statesmen, militairists, scientists, and rtists.
I can learn a lot from their life histories.
I: Who are your favorite authors ?
C: Lu Shun and Ba Jin are my favorite authors.
/ My favorite Chinese authors are Lao She, Mao Dun, and Cao Yu.
And my favorite foreign men of letters are Shakespeare, Gorky, and Whitman.
/ I like the novels of Dickens very mach.
I've read almost all of them in Chinese translation.
I wish I could read them in the original1 hear they're even better then.
I: Do you drink?
C: No, not a bit.
/ Yes, a little.
/ Yes, I do.
But I never drink to excess.
I: Do you smoke?
/ Are you a smoker?
C; No, I don't (am not).
/ Yes, just during social ccasions.
I never like it.
/ Yes, but I'm not a heavy smoker.
（编辑：薛琳）