“说话”是普通话水平测试的重要组成部分 ,目的是考查应试人的普通话口语能力。虽然“说话”的测试标准力求全面考查应试人的整体普通话口语水平 ,但在实际操作规程中 ,并没有真正达到预期的目的 ,其中暴露出不少值得探讨和亟待解决的问题。对现有的测试内容、测试标准、测试方式等都应作适当改变 ,才能使“说话”测试发挥应有的作用 “Talking” is an important part of Putonghua proficiency test, aimed at examining the candidate’s ability to speak Mandarin. Although the testing standard of “speaking” seeks to conduct a comprehensive examination of the spoken person’s overall speaking proficiency in Putonghua, it does not really achieve its intended purpose in practice, which exposes many issues that are worth discussing and resolving urgently. The existing test content, test standards, test methods, etc. should be properly changed in order to make the “speech” test to play its due role