【前言】9月5日托福考试听力部分回顾

 

2015年9月12日及13日托福考试预测如下：（温馨提示各位考生，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. Describe an important change that have already taken place in your school.
2. Talk about an important decision that you have made. Explain why this decision was important for you in details.
3. Describe how cellphones change people’s lives. Please give your answer with specific examples and details.
4. In some countries, teenagers have jobs while they are still students. Do you think this is a good idea? Support your opinion by using specific reasons and details.
5. Which class would you choose to attend if it is free: 1.Improve the skill of public presentation, 2.How to start a small business, 3.Improve photographic skill?
6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of eating in a fast-food restaurant? Please include specific reasons and details in your response.
7. Innate talent or hard-working? Which one is more important for sportsmen?
8. Talk about a place where you enjoy studying and explain why you like it?
9. Your friend wants to drop out of university or college. Do you agree or disagree with his decision? Please explain your opinion with details.
10. Your friend wants to build up a restaurant. What suggestions would you like to give regarding food and location?
11. Which following way of education do you support most? Through books, through communication within the community, or travelling around the world?
12. Describe which kind of skills you are good at and why it’s important to you? Such as painting, sporting.
13. A friend of yours would like to drop out of college. What advices would you give to him and why?
14. If your friend wants to make a big purchase without having enough money, what can he do to get enough money?
15. Some people think that students should study in the classroom, while others believe that they should visit the museum or zoo to study，which do you prefer?
16. Talk about a time when someone(your friends, family or teachers) gave you advice to solve the problem.
17. Some people think that innate talent is important for a musician or artist. Others believe that hard work is more important. How do you think and why?
18. Describe a present you have given to others.
19. What quality do you think is the most important for a good teacher?
20. Which is the most important quality for university students? Hardworking, intelligence or highly-motivated?
21. Which of the following do you think the most important for maintaining good health? Doing exercise, eating healthy food, or going to bed early?
22. University students often feel homesick when they are away from home. What do you often do to deal with homesickness?
23. 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?
24. Describe a good study habit that is different from other students.
25. Do you prefer to shop in large grocery department stores or small specialized shops?
26. How to overcome fear of public speaking?
27. Describe the steps when you learned something new.
28. What are some advantages and disadvantages of allowing students to watch TV in dormitories?
29. If you could make one important change in a school that you attended, what change would you make? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.
30. Do you agree or disagree: artists and musicians are important to our society?

 

 

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。

 

重点6

Task 3:

Newspaper to Post Off campus Job Opportunities

The newspaper will feature a job listing of local off-campus businesses

1 student complain about shortage of jobs

2 help student find jobs related to their majors

She agrees.

1. When she was freshman she went to many places like a bookstore to apply for a job. She didn’t get one. The offers given by the university are taken too fast. It is very frustrating. As a freshman, she was not familiar with the area. She did not know where to go to find a job

2 Her friend who majors in law wants to know how a lawyer works. But she works in a bookstore which is not beneficial for her career in the long term. If she can find a job as a lawyer, she will have sth good on her resume.

 

Task 4:

顾客锁定:厂家只制造能跟自己产品匹配的配件的一种营销方法。

例子:教授有个 A 牌相机，但不小心把变焦镜头摔坏了。后来在街上看到个价 格合理、各方面性能比 A 还好的 B 牌镜头，打算买，但结果发现没法安在自己的 A 牌相机上。所以教授只能花高价卖 A 牌特定的镜头。

 

Task 5:

Man’s problem: he has to go to his friend’s wedding ceremony tomorrow morning. He has no suit to wear

1st solution: borrow one from his cousin. But his cousin is shorter than him. The sleeves and pants of the suit will be short for him, which will make him look not good enough. His friend Suzy can help him sew the suit to make the sleeves and pants longer. But she is not a sewing expert. He has to leave campus in the early morning. He does not have enough time

2nd solution: buy one from a store. But he does not want to spend money on it. The suit will be expensive

 

Task 6:

植物学。植物有两种方法适应 harsh environment 具体的那个词忘记了，下面的例子也都说了具体名称，但是都是拟音的，所以忘记了。S1,针对 high wind，就长得矮一点，只高过地面几公分，避免 high-wind 的 damage。S2 针对 lack of water, 特殊的叶子可以减少蒸发，储存水分。