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2015年10月31日托福口语真题及答案解析:
Task 1
What activity do you think can cultivate children's sense of responsibility?
I think for children to cultivate their sense of responsibility, nothing's better than giving them them a pet. I've got two reasons. First of all, having a pet makes children realize the importance of taking care of others. Take myself as an example, my parents gave me a puppy as my birthday gift when I turned 8 and it was a big responsbility to me. All of a sudden I had something in my life I had to take care of, my dad helped me make a list of all of the things I needed to do. I had to feed him everyday, gave him a shower every week, and walked him every Saturday morning, I even had to take him to the vet when he was sick. All those things made me realize that none of us were alone in this world and taking care of others is as important as taking care of ourselves. Plus, having a pet makes children realize the importance of persistence. After I got my puppy, I learnt that doing nice things for him for one day was easy, what was not easy was doing the same things for him over and over again, and I managed to do it for nearly 14 years. I guess having a pet finally made me understand that taking care of others is easy, but it's constantly taking care of others that really counts.
Task 2
Do you prefer listening to music or doing nothing when you go from a place to another?
I personally prefer listening to music on my way to places for two reasons. First of all, music makes my journey much more enjoyable. For instance, I like to pick out songs I listen to according to my mood and the places I'm going to. Like last weekend, I was invited to my cousin's wedding, on the way to the wedding, I was listening to A Thousand Years, the theme song of the movie Twilight, the music and lyrics are about true and undying love of the characters in the movie so it completely matched the ocassion and I would even say that the music made the wedding even more touching and moving to me. Plus, I simply love listening to music, unfortunately now with the exams and papers going on, I don't get to have a lot of time just for music. So I seize every opportunity to listen to some good songs, nothing seems to be a better chance of enjoying good music than when I travel to places.My ears are fully open just to music and I get to have my own space. It's like the only time of day I can truly appreciate music.
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The student suggests that the university should allow students to borrow bikes for free due to two reasons. The first reason is to reduce the amount of traffic. And the second reason is to offer students an opportunity to work out. In the conversation, the man agrees with the suggestion. In the first reason, he mentions that the campus is pretty big and a lot of students are driving around campus now, if students got to borrow bikes for free, then more students would choose to ride bikes instead thus reducing the ammount of traffic. As for the second reason, the man points out that most of students don't have time to do exercise, so if the university allowed students to borrow bikes for free, maybe more students would get the opportunity of working out a little every day.
Task 4
In the lecture, the professor talks about tolerant ecotype which are the species that can evolve in or adapt to harsh environment. He offers us an example to illustrate it. The companion plant that was planted in an area with metal contamination, it couldn't survive at first, but over time, the plant developed the ability to tolerate this kind of environment and adapted to it. Not only the plant itself, the researchers found out that the seeds of this plant from this metal contaminated area can also grow and survive in the harsh environment. But if you moved a companion plant from a regular environment to this harsh environment, there would be no way they could grow or survive. That's how the professor uses the example of the companion plant to illustrate the concept of tolerant ecotype.
Task 5
The woman's problem is that one of her roommates moved out and she's supposed to interview the applicants for the room with another of her rommates tonight, but she can't go because she's got a geology group meeting at the same time. There are two possible solutions for her. The first one is to drop out of the meeting and the second one is to go to the meeting and trust her other roommate. If I were in her shoes, I would go for the second solution because her geology group meeting sounds really important, they may talk about things related to exams and stuff, things she would definitely miss out on if she simply read some materials herself. After all, a discussion with her peers will cover so much more than printed materials. I personally don't recommend the other solution, because her roommate probably will do a great job without her anyway, it's not worth it to miss out on a great geology group meeting just for this.
Task 6
In the lecture, the professor talks about the drawbacks of standardization of employees. He offers us two examples to illustrate it. The first drawback of standardization is that it will discourage the creativity of employees. For example, there's a store that sells clothes, they encourage employees to come up with their own jokes to attract customers to purchase their products. But after they started using standardized scripts for all employees, the effect was not very good, since employees couldn't create as they did in the past, the sales declined as well. The second drawback is the additional cost, coming up a whole standardized procedure for employees require time and energy from both the managers and the employees and the company can't expect them to do it for free, so paying the managers and employees to come up with the standardized procedure can be additional cost to the company.
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Task5题型分析
首先,来看一下Task5的题型。
如上图所示:题目中的给出材料为“一段对话”,通常是两名同学就校园内外所遇到的各种不同的困境所进行的相关讨论。每个人的情况不同,也可以登录文都国际教育官网进行一对一的咨询。
讨论中,其中一名遇到困境的同学会首先表述自己的问题,接着在与另一位谈话者的讨论中两人会找出2种解决方案,但每种方案都有不完美的地方,因此各有其优势和劣势。
而考生同学就是要抓住这些考点,才能为回答问题做好准备,而简答的算一下,刚好有7个考点:
(1)遇到的问题;
(2)解决方案—1;
(3)方案1的优势;
(4)方案1的劣势;
(5)解决方案—2;
(6)方案2的优势;
(7)方案2的劣势。
而Task5的题目要求是:首先表述一下其中一人所遇到的困境是什么?其次,表明在材料所给出的两个解决方案中考生自己倾向于选哪一个,并表明自己选择的原因是什么。
在分析完题型后,我们应该来研究一下怎样利用这些信息来进行高效的答题。毕竟每个考生只有60秒的回答时间,如果不加筛选的将所有信息全部奉上,一般情况下是无法完成作答的。
因此,我们必须利用一个有效的逻辑框架来帮助我们思考和回答题目。
我们的答题思路应该是这样的:
Step1: 先叙述谈话者遇到的问题;
Step2: 接着非常简洁地列举一下两个解决方案;
Step3: 做出选择,表明自己倾向的方案;
Step4: 用对角线原则陈述选择的原因。(即:列举自己的优势,以及另一方案的劣势。)
由此可见,我们一旦做出选择后,没必要将所有信息都陈述出来,而只要做到依据对角线原则,答出那些我们需要的原因就可以,即:自己的优点,别人的缺点。
实战分析
下面我们举例来说明:
例:TPO32—Task5
Listen to a conversation between two students.
man:I don’t know about you, but, I’m really looking forward to summer
break.
woman: I can’t even think that far ahead. I’ve got so much to do before the
end of the semester. I’ve been feeling pretty stressed out lately.
man:Why? What’s going on?
woman:Well, I just have so many assignments. I’ve got three major research
papers to do and they all due, basically, at the same time, in two weeks.
man: Wow! Three? That is a lot. And research papers take a lot of time.
woman: Right, and between my job and classes, there just aren’t enough hours
in the day to get them all done.
man: Well, is there anything you could cut from your schedule, I mean, you’re
working part-time in an office in town, aren’t you? Why don’t you just reduce
your hours there for a while, at least till you get the papers done.
woman: Well, I guess I could tell my boss I need to cut back on my hours for
a couple of weeks, uh, but I don’t know, I haven’t been working there very long.
I don’t want to make a bad impression by asking for time off already?
man:What else could you do?
woman: Well, another option is I could get an extension on one of the papers.
I asked one of my professors about it, my History professor, and she said it
would be OK if I handed the paper in a week late. So, I guess I could just
concentrate on getting the other two papers done first.
man: Oh, that’s great.
woman:Yeah, only she said she’d have to take a few points off the grade for
the paper since it would be late, you know, to be fair to the other
students.
man: Oh, that’s a drag. So what are you gonna do?
woman:Uh, I don’t know yet.
在听的过程中,按照“七点法”进行考点分析:
(为了模拟考试状态,此处我们只写关键词)
(1) Problem:
three major research papers / all due at the same time, in 2 weeks/-------
part-time job/ no enough time for the three papers
(2) Solution1:
Tell the boss/ cut back on her hours for a couple of weeks
优势:this is only a part-time job / could ask the boss
劣势:she’s not been working very long. / make a bad impression
(3) Solution2:
Get an extension on one of the papers.
优势:she asked professor / she said it would be ok/ she could concentrate on
the other two papers first.
劣势:the professor would have to take a few points off the grade for the
paper.
有了上面的考点提炼和梳理,我们答题就会显得容易的多。
参考答案
现在,让我们来看一个版本的参考答案:(选solution1)
Sample answer:
The woman in the conversation has got a problem, which is, she has three
major research papers that all due at the same time in two weeks.
Meanwhile, she has a part-time job in an office in town. So there is not
enough time in the day for her to get all three papers done.
Here are two solutions.
The first one is to tell the boss to cut back on her hours for a couple of
weeks.
The second one is to get an extension on one of the papers.
I prefer the first one.
Since this is only a part-time job, and she thinks that the boss would
understand her situation and allow her to cut some hours. And then she would
have enough time in the 2 weeks to concentrate on getting all the three papers
done.
As for the second solution, although the professor has said yes, it is still
not good because to be fair to the other students, a few points would be taken
off the grade for the paper as it would be late. That’s not what she wants.
Based on the reasons above, I prefer the first solution.
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