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2015年三月托福口语考题合集

2015-03-31 11:43

来源:北美教研中心 托福口语组

作者:武丹

 

Task 1

1.      (03/07/2015)

第一套题:If you have a chance to learn a new skill, which of the following are you most interested inPlaying musical instrumentPlaying sportsFlying a plane.

第二套题:One of your friends is going to attend a job interview. Please give him some advice about how to prepare it.

2.      (03/14/2015) What is the most important characteristic of a good working environment? Friendly co-workers Flexible hours Helpful boss or manager.

3.      (03/28/2015) If you have money to donate to local community, which will you donate to? Local library, animal sanctuary, 环境组织

 

Task 2:

1.      (03/07/2015)

第一套题: Agree or disagree with the following statement: Cellphone has greatly changed people’s life.

第二套题:Agree or disagree with the following statement: people who are 18 years old are not mature to vote.

2.      (03/14/2015) If you’re to take a new course, which one will you choose? The interesting one taught by a professor who’s strict about grade, or the boring one taught by a professor who will give students a good grade.

3.      (03/28/2015) Is it important for students to have some work experience, for example part-time job, before they go to the college or university?

 

Task 3:

1.      (03/07/2015)

第一套题:

ReadingA student suggests the university to make a sidewalk across the lawn.

Reason1:currently the lawn becomes muddy when it rains, students’ shoes become dirty with mud

Reason2: the lawn is taken by students as a shortcut, and it’s not attractive. The university should use concrete to build the sidewalk.

Listening

Man disagrees with this proposal

Reason 1:Students should prepare other shoes in case of a rainy day.

Reason 2: It is not good for students to take the lawn as a shortcut. Students are too lazy now. And the lawn is natural, so a sidewalk there is not necessary. She thinks the reason why some students move out is not because they don't get along well with their roommates but because they have other schedule and better locations.

 

 

第二套题:

ReadingA student proposes to build a parking lot for the humanization building.

Listening

Woman disagrees with this proposal

Reason1: The parking lot could be built at other places like the dining hall, the library

Reason2: Building a parking lot there is not good for preserving trees.

 

2.       (03/14/2015)

Reading

The university will let its students in art major to go to a primary school and teach art lessons there.

Reason1: The primary school has no funds, and the students there have no access to arts.

Reason2: Through teaching drawing and painting there, students in art major can get firsthand experience in this regard.

Listening

Man looks forward to this work.

Reason 1: This will be beneficial for the primary school. He uses his experience as the example here. When he was a child, he was in a primary school which had no access to art lessons, because the school’s so small. This was not good for students.

Reason 2: He has learnt some teaching methods in a studio, and this will help him with the teaching work in the primary school.

 

3.       (03/28/2015)

Reading: student suggests that psychology department should create student’s magazine.

Reason 1: they can use this magazine as a way to show the hard work of some students.

Reason 2: it’s an honor for students who are being chosen.

Listening: the girl agrees with the letter.

Reason 1: students are major in psychology; they all want to become graduate students after finishing college, so having this experience of being published on magazine can make their background outstanding, it’s also good for their future career as well.

Reason2: it also provides new students who are now major in psychology with a model for paper writing, knowing about how to organize the structure of the paper.

Task 4:

1.      (03/07/2015)

 

第一套题:

Reading: Approach-avoidance conflict趋避冲突

Definition Sentence: After people get goals, they’ll have stress experience. When conflict occurs, the combination of positive quality and discouragement will influence them.

ListeningThe professor used his friend’s experience as an example to illustrate this concept.

When she went to college, she discovered that she herself loved teaching and wanted to become a teacher after graduation. But when she started practicing, she found out teaching was not like something she had imagined before. She had almost no free time to do something else. Even after work, she had to give comments on students’ assignments. So she started to ask herself whether she should carry on doing this. But no matter what, teaching was still her life-time dream.

 

第二套题:

Reading: Advertising image广告意象

ExampleBig bear cookie

2.      (03/14/2015)

Reading: Teaser advertising 悬念式广告

Definition Sentence: Teaser advertising is a nontraditional approach that creates an image when introducing a new product.

Listening The professor uses a car company’s case as the example here.

A car company will introduce a new mode of car. It has two methods. The first method is to let the road, beautiful mountain and sky appear first in the ad, and this will make the audience curious about the new mode of car appearing next. The second method is to let all these things happen at the same time. And this method is more effective.

3.      (03/28/2015)

Reading: Consistency bias 习惯性偏向

Definition sentence: When people are asked about their previous opinion, they tend to response with their current idea. This occurs quite often when people don’t even realize about it.

Listening: The professor uses his own experience as an example to explain this term.

The professor’s brother is a mathematics teacher in college, and he didn’t like his principal before, so he always did things negatively. But after that, the principal started to do things differently; he made some change about the school policies, like he bought some computers to students. After that, his brother changed his mind, thinking his principal was a good leader. So, when he was asked his previous opinion of the principal, he stuck to his current idea and even not noticed the change of his attitude.

Task 5:

1.      (03/07/2015)

 

第一套题:

ProblemThe girl encounters a conflict between her study in Mexico and her job as the president of international club.

Solution 1She can work as the president for one year, and resign in the next year, so that she can find somebody else to do this job. But the girl wants a four-year experience as a student leader in her CV.

Solution 2 She can apply to go to Mexico in the next summer. The boy’s friend has a successful experience. But the girl still wants to learn more Spanish.

 

第二套题:

ProblemThe girl is going picnic tomorrow, but it’ll rain.

Solution 1She can call her parents to cancel it.

Solution 2 She can go to local restaurant instead.

2.      (03/14/2015)

Problem The girl has a problem that her apartment will be sold to others and she has to move out within a few days. She wants to live closer to campus, but she doesn’t have enough time to find a place.

Solution 1One of her friends can offer her a place, but it’s inconvenient for her to carry all her things to her friends’ place.

Solution 2 She can move to the apartment she has seen before. But it’s a little bit far from university, and it may take her a lot of time on the way.

3.      (03/28/2015)

Problem: In the listening, the woman has a problem that the day is a raining day, and the woman forgets to bring her umbrella and coat, but she has to get back to her house to finish her history paper.

Solution 1: She can wait for her roommate to pick her up by car.

Disadvantage: She has to wait for a long time, because her roommate has classes to take all the afternoon, it’s can be pretty late when she finally gets back to her house and she has to stay up late to get her paper done.

Solution 2: She can take a cab to get back to her house.

Disadvantage: It will cost her a lot, at least 15 dollars.

Task 6:

1.      (03/07/2015)

 

第一套题:

ListeningThe professor talks about physical features of mountain plants in tropical areas.

First Feature:

Plants in those areas will grow small hair to protect themselves from the intensive sunshine when the sun rises.

Second Feature:

After sunset, temperature drops, it becomes freezing, so plants will close their outside layer to protect their inside layer.

 

第二套题:

Task 6.Biology

ListeningThe professor talks about displace behavior.

ExampleMonkeys

2.      (03/14/2015)

Listening Animals will be beneficial from being a part of a group.

First Feature: Animals will be protected by the group. (Bats as the example here)

Second Feature: When an animal in the group get attacked, it can send a signal to warn its group members, so they will take action to protect themselves from the danger. (Especially for insects, Ocean skater as the example)

3.      (03/28/2015)

Topic: the professor talks about two ways of how animal preserve their food.

First way: they will dry out the food before they store. For example, squirrels dry the mushroom on the branch before they store, so the bacteria has no condition to grow without water molecule.

Second way: they will make food cool. For example, beavers bring the leaves and branches under water to make the food cold, keeping the food away from bacteria.

 



 



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