【前言】9月17日托福考试部分回顾

2015年9月26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 your favorite studying place. Explain why you like to study in this place. Please include reasons and examples to support your response.
2. Some universities require students to take classes in many subjects. Other universities require students to specialize in one subject. Which is better?
3. Some people believe that university students should be required to attend classes. Others believe that going to classes should be optional for students. Which point of view do you agree with? Use specific reasons and details to explain your answer.Describe how cellphones change people’s lives. Please give your answer with specific examples and details.
4. 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?
5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of eating in a fast-food restaurant? Please include specific reasons and details in your response.
6. Innate talent or hard-working? Which one is more important for sportsmen?
7. Talk about a place where you enjoy studying and explain why you like it?
8. Your friend wants to drop out of university or college. Do you agree or disagree with his decision? Please explain your opinion with details.
9. Your friend wants to build up a restaurant. What suggestions would you like to give regarding food and location?
10. Which following way of education do you support most? Through books, through communication within the community, or travelling around the world?
11. Describe which kind of skills you are good at and why it’s important to you? Such as painting, sporting.
12. A friend of yours would like to drop out of college. What advices would you give to him and why?
13. If your friend wants to make a big purchase without having enough money, what can he do to get enough money?
14. 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?
15. Talk about a time when someone(your friends, family or teachers) gave you advice to solve the problem.
16. 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?
17. Describe a present you have given to others.
18. What quality do you think is the most important for a good teacher?
19. Which is the most important quality for university students? Hardworking, intelligence or highly-motivated?
20. Which of the following do you think the most important for maintaining good health? Doing exercise, eating healthy food, or going to bed early?
21. University students often feel homesick when they are away from home. What do you often do to deal with homesickness?
22. 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?
23. Describe a good study habit that is different from other students.
24. Do you prefer to shop in large grocery department stores or small specialized shops?
25. How to overcome fear of public speaking?
26. Describe the steps when you learned something new.
27. What are some advantages and disadvantages of allowing students to watch TV in dormitories?
28. What are some suggestions for your friend in terms of preparing for a presentation?
29. Which technology has the greatest impact on people’s life? Airplane, computer, or television.
30. Agree or disagree: Nowadays, young people are more informed about the world events than their parents were before.
31. Some people think that employees should wear formal clothes to work. Others think they should wear casual clothes. Which do you think is better?
32. 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?
33. 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?
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. Talk about an important decision that you have made. Explain why this decision was important for you in details.
37. 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.
38. Do you agree or disagree with the statement that all children under the age of 16 should attend school. Explain you answer in details.
39. Talk about an activity you enjoyed doing with your family when you were a child, explain you answer in details.
40. Some people consider going to the gym a priority in their life, while others go to the gym only when they have time. Which do you think is better and why?
41. Talk about an activity you would like to participate in the near future, explain your answer in details.
42. Agree or disagree: it is better to be a member of a team than to be a leader of a team.
43. What type of music do you like? Explain why.
44. Some people prefer to write journals and take photos when they travel. Others don’t. Which do you prefer?
45. Some people prefer to read paper book. Some people prefer to read electronic books on their reading devices. Which do you prefer?

 

 

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。

 

重点7

Task 3:

阅读说大一学生需要得到更多帮助，学校会把小组改为 20 人，男生同意原因之一是刚上大学不知道怎么准备论文作业和考试；原因之二是大学和高中不同，高中知识听老师讲课，大学是更多的交流。

 

Task 4:

文章说动物靠各种姿势声音等信号交流，教授举了两个例子个说他的狗追着卡车跑和叫，但是并没有得到回应，所以车子停了他就消停了。第二个是自己的够和另外一只狗，本来也是叫，但是还有耳朵和尾巴的一些互动，两只狗都突然变得友好，表明他们接收到了彼此的信息以完成交流。

 

Task 5:

女生要参加 camping 但没有帐篷，有两个解决方案，一个是向朋友借，但是很旧，如果下雨也许会淋雨，另一个是自己买，但是有点小贵，也许不喜欢了以后不再参加，觉得比较浪费。

 

Task 6:

关于weeds是不是useful，当然是的，有两个理由.一是hold the soil 拿coffee举例，coffee产地大多多雨，weeds保护他们不会wash away；二是防止不会被animal吃掉，也是coffee举例，他们会去吃那些leaves而不是crop，所以可以保护他们。

 

重点8

Task3

【公开信】有个人写信给学校,说student directory(college directory that has all the contact information of students.) 可以两个方面改进:1. 加照片(Add photos of students)2. 制作一个网上在线浏览的版本(Put the directory on the internet)。

【学生对话】听力里男人说好啊。

1. some students may have the same name, photo helps students to find the right person. 因为上礼拜我用student directory 找个人忘了他的last name,结果打错了各种囧,有照片就不会;还有在线浏览好啊,

2. Some students can’t find the directory. 很多人一开学就displace 了那本小书,有了在线版就啥时候都能看见了。(It is easy for students to find these information if there are electronic version of the directory available online.)

Task4

【名词解释】Insight learning。在观察周围情况后,动物能相处解决问题的方案。这就是insight learning。

【教授举例】: 举例大猩猩(Chimpanzee)如何获取食物的例子来进一步阐述这个理论和概念。香蕉在很高的天花板上(top of its cage) 挂着,猩猩反应是跳起来去取,一次两次甚至三次,太高取不到会失望和沮丧。Then it give up and sit down for awhile, 经过思考,他发现屋里有box,于是他拿来一个box 垫在自己脚下再去取,还是不够高,他又拿另外一个Box,(use box on top of other boxes)直到盒子的高度足以让他取到香蕉。

Task5

阅读说学校对theatre专业的有新要求take a trip off campus，看专业的product，要花35元。女的问男的态度，男的很欢迎，说对理解有帮助，花钱也不多，花3次的钱可以看一次免费的。

Task6

【讲座内容】商务经济类，关于collect information for business marketing 的2个方法，是quantity way，例子是，一个car manufacture, use这个方法通过大量调查，发现没有孩子的客户购买量大,而有孩子的客户购买量小。第二个方法是opinion based就是问卷调查之类的。之后该公司为了查明为什么有孩子的客户购买量小，就用该方法survey问卷调查，发现是car的back seat 有问题，孩子觉得不舒服。

 

重点9

Task3

【学校通知】

关于学校的咖啡厅又一个新计划:允许学生办音乐会

【学生对话】

女学生说太好了,她是个音乐家,弹吉他又唱歌,这样的话给像她这样的学生提供了表演机会,练习在观众前放松表演,还有怎么用麦克风什么的。第二,音乐会是免费的,这样的话好多学生可以不用担心负担不起。男声基本上就随声附和。

Task4

【名词解释】一种商业竞争策略fighting brand。大公司推出价格便宜的子品牌跟小公司竞争。

【讲座举例】听力中例子company A生产digital camera,口碑很好,大家都乐意买。有小公司B生产similar digital camera,但是价格便宜,大家觉得这也是个不错的deal。大公司A为了保住市场份额,推出一个牌子,价钱便宜质量一般,跟B公司竞争。因为人们对公司A公司熟悉所以买公司A 子品牌的东西,逐渐不买公司B的。