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2014年11月8, 9日考题

 

这场托福考试的口语考题为新题加旧题拼盘, 难度较大，如果考生们在考前能扎实练习考试难度不大。2014年11月15日和23日托福考试预测如下，当然温馨提醒考生们，善于运用预测，不过分依赖预测、模板，强化自己的口语表达基本功才是能让自己口语得高分的关键。

 

独立话题重点

1.         What quality do you think is the most important for a university student?

2.         Do you agree or disagree: artists and musicians are important to our society?

3.         What type of music do you enjoy the most?

4.         University students often feel homesick when they are away from home. What do you often do to deal with homesickness?

5.         Some people prefer to collect old things like newspaper. Others prefer to throw them away after they ace used them. Which do you prefer and why?

6.         Do you agree or disagree with the statement: Government should spend money on projects that encourages the citizens to live a healthy lifestyle.

7.         Describe a good study habit that is different from other students.

8.         Do you prefer to shop in large grocery department stores or small specialized shops?

9.         Which of the following do you think the most important for maintaining good health? Doing exercise, eating healthy food, or going to bed early?

10.     Describe a present you have given to others.

11.     What quality do you think is the most important for a good teacher?

12.     How to overcome fear of public speaking?

13.     How to solve the traffic problems?

14.     Describe a time when you learned a new subject.

15.     What are some advantages and disadvantages of allowing students to watch TV in dormitories?

16.     What are some suggestions for your friend in terms of preparing for a presentation?

17.     Which technology has the greatest impact on people’s life? Airplane, computer, or television.

18.     Agree or disagree: Nowadays, young people are more informed about the world events than their parents were before.

19.     Some people think that employees should wear formal clothes to work. Others think they should wear casual clothes. Which do you think is better?

20.     Do you prefer to make friends who share the same interests or friends with different interests？

21.     Some people think children should grow up in big cities. Others believe that it is better for children to grow up in small towns. Which do you think is better?

22.     Some people prefer to go to the same place for a vacation. Others prefer to go to different places and spend less time at each place. Which do you prefer?

23.     What do you think is the most significant benefit that internet brings to our life? Explain why you think this benefit is important. Please include reasons and details to support your response.

24.     Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: people live healthier lives now than they did 100 years ago? Please use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

25.     Talk about an important decision that you have made. Explain why this decision was important for you in details.

26.     Do you agree or disagree with the statement that it's important for students to study Art and Music in school. Explain your answer in details.

27.     Describe a person you want to learn more about, explain why you want to know more about this person in details.

28.     Do you agree or disagree with the statement that all children under the age of 16 should attend school. Explain you answer in details.

29.     Talk about an activity you enjoyed doing with your family when you were a child, explain you answer in details.

30.     While traveling, some people prefer to go to new places; others prefer to visit familiar places. Which do you think is better? Explain why.

31.     Talk about an activity you would like to participate in the near future, explain your answer in details.

32.     Agree or disagree: it is better to be a member of a team than to be a leader of a team.

33.     What type of music do you like? Explain why.

34.     Some people prefer to write journals and take photos when they travel. Others don’t. Which do you prefer?

35.     Some people prefer to read paper book. Some people prefer to read electronic books on their reading devices. Which do you prefer?

36.     Some people prefer to solve a challenge by themselves; and others prefer to depend on other’s help. Which do you prefer?

37.     What are the advantages and disadvantages of allowing students to eat in class?

38.     Describe a job or career that you admire but do not want to take.

39.     College students should be allowed to keep pets in their dormitories.

40.     Describe a time when you learned a new subject and illustrate the steps.

41.     Should children grown up in cities or small town?

42.     What quality do you think is the most important to be a university student? Highly motivated, hard working, or intelligent?

43.     Popular celebrities, like singers, actors, athletes are good examples for the young to learn form. Do you agree or disagree?

44.     Some students prefer to study in a library. Others prefer to study at home or in dormitories. Which way do you prefer and why? Include reasons and details in your response.

45.     Some people prefer to live in a place most of their life. Other people prefer to move to different places. Which do you prefer and why? Use specific reasons and examples to support your response.

46.     Do you prefer to participate in activities alone, or with a team or group?

47.     Do you prefer finish your work long before the due time?

48.     When do you prefer to do your assignment, morning or evening?

49.     Describe an positive experience and the result.

50.     What kind of food do you recommend to add to food menu on campus cafeteria? Use Examples and details to support your response.

 

综合话题重点

重点1

Task 3:

Reading—Announcement: the school is planning to prohibit students ride bicycles on campus because there could be accidents. Instead, the school would provide free bus service.

Listening—Attitude: 女生反对

Listening—Reason 1: 事故都是晚上发生的，白天很安全

Listening—Reason 2: Bus一小时才来一班，太浪费时间

 

Task 4:

Reading—Test Customer: in order to see whether employee’s performance, the employer might hire a ‘customer’ that makes purchases in the store just like regular customers do, then the hired ‘customer’ reports to the employer about the employee’s performance.

Listening—一个餐厅的 manager 找一个人当 test customer，来测试员工的服务是否到

位。

 

Task 5:

Problem: The woman is attending a play, but she’s busy with her school work, so she’s afraid that attending the play might influence her academic performance.

Solution 1: Quit the play

Comment: she’s majoring in theater, and she is not attending the play just for fun, it’s beneficial for her career

Solution 2: Drop some of the required classes, take them next semester

Comment: she has to start over on these classes; it’s a lot of trouble.

 

Task 6:

总括：不同电影拍摄技术可以赋予角色不同的特点

观点 1：从 low angle 拍显得比较 powerful

例子 1：电影 Queen of England 中的 queen 就采用 low angle 拍摄

观点 2：从 high angle 拍显得角色比较 powerless

例子 2：拍一个沙漠中的男人，如果俯拍就显得他 hopeless

 

重点2

Task 3:

reading：

School will remove the posters on the concrete wall outside the student center.

First it can improve the appearance. second，posters can be put in the dining hall on the bulletin board.

listening：

woman：Disagrees.

first，the concrete wall would be boring without the changing posters. Different posters can show different personalities.

second，not everybody eating in the dining hall. Students may choose to eat in the snack bar or on the street. So posters in the dining hall will not be noticed by them.

 

Task 4:

Reading—Coloration warning: Animals have special color or other features that surprise/startle the predators, so the next time when predators see them, they wouldn’t come close.

Listening—Skunk【臭 鼬】 The predator of skunk is wolf. When wolves approach, they would emit a unique scent to drive the wolves away. Skunk has bold black and white coloration which makes their appearance memorable. So the next time when wolves see skunk, they know to stay away in order to avoid being sprayed by the scent.

 

Task 5:

problem：

the man has a conflict：He wants to attend a film discussion meeting tomorrow but he also has to dine with his cousin tomorrow.

two choices：

1. The woman dines with cousin for the man

advantage：Cousin will know more people

disadvantage：the cousin is shy，dining with the woman may be uncomfortable.

2. The man will not attend the meeting.

disadvantage：The film discussion meeting is really interesting.

 

Task 6:

总括：人们为什么对某些事情印象会非常深刻？对这种现象有两种解释

观点 1：我们在之前对它们有所了解

例子 1：没了解过音乐的人参加 classical music concert，一年之后就不会对这个 concert

有很多记忆；但是学习过音乐的人却可以记住其中的 details

观点 2：对特殊的人或事能记得更清楚

例子 2：在大教室中上课，人们更容易记住特别的人，比如 tallboy/intelligent girl

 

重点3

Task3

Reading

【Proposal】Students should be allowed to use cell phones in the library.

【Reasons】

1. Students can talk with a lower voice and whisper.

2. Occasionally, students need to make emergency calls.

Listening

The girl disagrees. It doesn’t work.

【Reasons】

1. The library should be quiet. If students talk with a lower voice or whisper, they cannot be heard, so they would have to talk loudly and make noise, which will cause the distractions to other students.

2. If students get emergency calls, they can go out to check messages. Normally, urgent calls will be delivered by messages.

 

Task 4:

Convergent evolution the process in which unrelated animals developed similar traits. Example used was the aardvark, a pig like animal, and echidna, a small animal in Africa. Both animals eat the same insects that live in complexly mud holes. Both developed long sticky tongues that can be used to eat the insect.

 

Task 5:

【Problem】 The man in the conversation attends a club and they would like to travel to France, but he doesn’t have enough money to pay for the plane ticket.

【Solutions】

1. He can work extra ten hours every day at the restaurant.

2. He can sell his guitar to pay for the ticket. He hasn’t been using his guitar for a long time.

 

Task 6:

Product repackaging: two conditions companies would do so the first condition is in response to new technology or material available for packaging the example used was milk bottles from glass to plastic more durable and cheap. Second condition is in response to competition from competitors. Example used was milk again. Its competitors selling juices n tea started to sell in smaller n more portable sizes it changed its products into smaller and more portable sizes to respond to competitor market change.

 

重点4

Task 3:

Topic sentence:

The University is planning to install computers in every dorm building and woman in the conversation supports this plan.

Reading

First, the university believes that with computers available in every dorm building, students will be able to receive and send their assignments or emails to their professors more efficiently. But there’s a rule that each student could only use computers no more than 10mints, when someone else is waiting.

Listening

The woman totally agrees with this plan because firstly, sometimes she forgets to check directions online when she has already went out the dorm. So if there is a computer in the lobby, she doesn’t have to go back to the fourth floor. Secondly, limiting the using time will prevent students from typing their essays and occupying these computers for a long time.

 

Task 4:

Learn transfer

阅读部分：学习过程中，以前学习的东西对后来学习的东西的作用，分两种： a. Negative transfer. b. Positive transfer.

教授分别举例，Positive transfer. 举了教授自己的例子。小时候学习钢琴，不看琴键， 只看乐谱。后来到高中学习打字，只看屏幕，不看键盘。很 Helpful。 听力部分： Negative transfer 举了教授朋友的例子。以前是舞台剧演员，习惯了大声念台词，后来做 movie actor，不需要大声了，但还总是大声。此为 negative transfer.

 

Task 5:

Topic sentence

The woman and her club members were planning to go on an outdoor activity but that place was shut down at the last minute due to some emergencies and they already paid the bus fees which are non-refundable.

In order to solve this problem, they have two solutions: they can either arrange the trip to the waterfalls or to the science museum instead.

Preference

If I were her, I would choose the second solutions for two reasons. First, most of the members have already been to the waterfall, so it might be less interesting If they go there again.

What’s more, planning a new trip to the science museum will make people feel excited because the exhibitions there are frequently updated.

 

Task 6:

Loon birds have two types of feather to protect them in the cold water, they are water birds live in cold climate in north America, 1st, counterfeit (伪造的东西), feather which is the outer layer of the birds’ body. This type of feather keeps the birds dry, it is packed tightly and oily which keep the water going into the body. 2nd type is down feather, which keeps the bird warm. It is dense and thick and is making of soft fluffy material. So it prevents the heat loosing for the body.

 

重点5

Task 3:

【个人倡议】一学生建议关闭coffee house. 因为这个地方很少有人来不是一个聚会的好地方并且灯光很差不适宜学习。

【学生态度】女生和男生讨论反对这建议:理由 1:很多学生白天有课,但晚上有时间经常在coffee house 聚会, hang out or do some reading.理由 2:after renovation, 这个地方灯光变好,每张桌子上灯光很足。

 

Task 4:

【名词解释】记忆心理学。轨迹法(method of loci)。借助轨迹法按顺序 image 记忆东西的方法。选的东西要vivid,更好记。

【教授举例】:教授举了个记 names of planets 的例子。记 names of planets 时可把每一个行星的名字当作一个去 student center 路上的标志去记忆:比如你要 from your dorm to student center. The first thing you see is the front door, then the tree, then the status in front of library then the building。再一一对应,比如 to memorize names of planets in solar system, make Mercury as front door, Venus as tree etc.。当考试时你就 do the same thing,用这些door, tree 帮助自己回忆起 names。

 

Task 5:

【学生问题】女生的问题是:要做一个 project about film class,今天要拍但是有雨,而且还有两天截至日期.

两个解决方案:

1)可以转向 building 用这里的 scenes。

2)可能明天拍,因为明天 weather becoming better, 但是问题是明天她需要编 辑,并要完成这个project, 没有时间。

 

Task 6:

【讲课要点】:biology class。深海鱼类 fish can make electric current and they can

benefit from it in 2 ways: 用途1 用电 流 capture 小鱼,从而获得 food。举例:eel can produce strong currency to shock and paralyze small fish, and then eat it。 用途2 用电流自卫、逃避危险。举例:一种叫做 knife fish 的鱼。这种鱼利用其身体产生的electric current field 去 explore the dark environment。If there is a rock nearby the it, the current field will change. So the knife fish can sense it and avoiding crashing into the rock。

 

 

 

 

 

 

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