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| 2016年11月13日 托福口语考题回忆 | |
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If you are going to choose a roommate which of the following quality is more important to you. Cleanness Friendliness Quietness |
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Sample answer: If I am going to choose a roommate, I will choose quietness over other qualities, such as cleanness and friendliness. Suppose I am going to tuck in one evening. However, my roommate is playing her/his favorite computer game and her/his typing keeps me up. It is really difficult situation to me since I cannot just tell her/him to be quiet. The dorm room is for college students to have a nice sleep and recharge the batteries so that students can cope with reading assignments of different courses the next day. That’s why I think that it is important for me to choose a quiet roommate. (105 words) |
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| Some people prefer to buy new books while some people would like to buy used books, what is your opinion? | |
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Sample answer: While some people claim that it is important for them to read a new book with no marks or notes on it, I hold that used books can help me a lot when I am reading a textbook. Take a psychology textbook as an example. This textbook is not designed to evoke any feelings or emotions when the writer is introducing different schools of psychological theorists. When I get my hands on a book like this, what I care about the most is how fast I can get the points. The notes and highlights of the previous reader can be really instrumental when it comes to the points of the book. Plus, I don’t mind if the reader marks the points in any hideous color. That’s why I would like to buy used books. (134 words) |
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标题：new gym policy 原因1：charge fee , 付费雇更多instructors 原因2：提前预约课程，方便学校管理 |
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态度：反对 原因1：白天没什么人上课，可以让白天课的instructor 去教晚上的课。 原因2：gym 的好处就是flexibility， 可以随时去上课。 |
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Sample answer: The university gym is going to make some new policies. The gym plans to charge fee so that more instructors can be hired and students are supposed to book a class so that it is convenient for the gym to do management. The person is not impressed by these new policies. Firstly, those instructors who are in charge of daytime classes can teach evening classes since few students show up in the gym during the daytime. Secondly, the best part of the gym is its flexibility. That is to say, students can go to take the classes whenever they want and they are not supposed to stick to a specific schedule all the time just as they do with those courses. (121 words) |
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标题：changes of numbers in the group 定义：动物种群中的数量是会改变的 |
| 听力 | 例子：baboons 晚上会一起休息，大约200只聚在一起， 其中一只发现lion就可以发出警报。 但是白天的时候分开觅食，大约只有20只在一个group。 |
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Sample answer: The professor takes the example of baboons to illustrate the concept of “changes of numbers in the group”. Baboons are the kind of the animals that move in groups and the numbers in their group change. At night, they gather together and have a rest. When they are doing this, the number of the group is usually about 200. If one member of the group finds presence of their predators, such as lions, this baboon will sound the alarm to alert the other members of the group. However, during the day, the baboons go their separate ways when they are foraging for food. The number of the group is about 20. This is a perfect example of changes of numbers in the group. (123 words) |
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问题：男孩儿明天的acting class 有一个play要表演，但是他的搭档女生drop the class，没法演了。 解决方案1：放弃之前需要两个人的剧，重新练习一个monologue。 缺点1：需要重新练习。而且之前的play he practiced really hard。 解决方案2：和对话中的另一个女孩合作表演。 优点2：不用练新的剧目。 缺点2：对话中的女孩是是业余的， 只会 read from the paper。 |
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Sample answer: The man is supposed to perform in a play in an acting class tomorrow, but his partner has dropped the class. He can drop the play and find a monologue or he can make another female student his new partner. I recommend the former. Firstly, although he had practiced really hard with the play and has to start from the very beginning with the new monologue, he can stay up late and rehearse the monologue with all the time he has now. Plus, he does not have to coordinate his schedule with another person since only one actor is needed in the monologue. Secondly, his new would-be partner is so armature that she can only reads from the paper. If he pairs up with her, her less than professional performance will certainly make him look bad. That’s why I think the first solution is better. (145 words) |
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话题：marking 中提供service 服务不容易给顾客evidence 证明自己的service 很好。 要点1：可以让之前的顾客提供testimonies 证明服务很好。 例子1：一个painter 让之前的顾客写testimonies。 要点2：可以用before/after 的对比来展示。 |
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Sample answer: It is not easy to provide customers with evidence to prove that your service is good enough. There are two strategies to handle this situation. Firstly, you can invite your former customers to give testimonies to prove that your service is excellent. For example, one of professor’s friends, a painter, painted house and his business was abysmal. The painter wanted to impress a new customer with the excellent service he could provide. Then he asked his former customers to give some feedback to prove that his service was good enough. Secondly, you can use photographs to make a contrast between the situation before your service and that after your service. For instance, the painter showed a photograph of the undecorated house and another photograph of the redecorated house. The customers were so easily be attracted by the big difference between them. (141 words) |
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