2015年5月9日托福口语预测及解析

Task 1：Describe a special gift you gave to some else. Explain why it is a special gift? Include details to support your explanation.

分析：这道题的关键词是special gift，是一道物品题，我们熟悉的物品题的素材book, electronic products, clothe, toy等都可以套用到这个题目中去，只要做一些修改就可以了，所以可以采用旧题新做去完成。下面以book作为sample answer，大家可以参考：

Sample answer：

I remember when my friend Kay had her 18th birthday; I gave her something very special as a birthday present. It was a 12-month subscription to National Geographic magazine. With this subscription she not only get 12 issues of paper magazines mailed to her home, but also get unlimited access to the national geographic website. My friend Kay later told me that among all the presents that she received that day, she loved this one the most.

With a 12-month subscription, she said, it was like getting a present from me every month. More importantly, it reminded her once every month that she should study English just a little harder, so that she could understand the written articles in the magazine, and not just look at the pictures.

Task 2：Some people prefer to use electronic mail to communicate with their family and friends whereas others prefer to use the telephone. Which do you prefer and why? Please use examples and reasons to support your answer.

分析：这是一道A or B的题目，关键词分别是email, phone, communicate with family & friends。按照task2的答题思路只要分别想出email 和 phone的优缺点就可以了，我们可以分析一下：两者的共同点是利用高科技，所以都非常的convenient和 efficient，但是区别在于email 是文字交流，比较正式，可以思考要说的内容；

而phone是口头交流，更亲切，能听到对方的声音、及时得到对方的回应等，但是比email更贵，远距离的话需要考虑到时差等等。分析下来可能跟家人或朋友交流用phone会更好说一点，可以参考下面的sample answer：

In my opinion, it is more ideal to communicate with my family and friends via the phone. Talking over the phone is more personal and it allows us to hear the tone of voice of the other person, which is crucial to fully understand each other. For example, I once had an email conversation with a friend and it turned into a hostile argument because we couldn’t hear each other’ s tone of voice. Later we talked on the phone and resolved the misunderstanding within just two minutes. After this incident, I started to believe that talking on the phone is a more effective and personal way to communicate with others.

Task 3:

The university is going to create a new program for environmental protection but the man in the conversation disagrees with this new policy. First, according to the university, this program will encourage students to become more environmentally friendly on campus such as turning off the lights whenever they can and so on. However, the man in the conversation argues that most students on campus are already very aware of environmental protection, which makes the new program unnecessary. He believes that the university is judging the entire student body based

on the poor behavior of a small group of people. In addition, the university will only allow students who major in environmental science to participate in the training program. The man in the conversation, on the other hand, thinks that the program should be open to all students despite their background because there are many students who are environmentally conscious and not necessarily environmental science majors. For these reasons, the man disagrees with the new plan.

Task 4：

The term ―psychological risk‖ refers to a situation where consumers are concerned that a product might not fit their personal belief. This would cause consumers to hold back their decision to purchase the product. The professor uses an example of a sports car manufacturer to show how understanding consumers, psychological risk is able to achieve desired results through advertisements.

A sports car manufacturer was advertising a sports car with an emphasis on how fast the car could run. However, consumers were worried that the car might pollute the environment and thus a lot of potential buyers were holding back their decision to purchase this car. After finding out this psychological risk,the company began to advertise how environmentally friendly the sports car actually was. As a result, environmentally conscious consumers felt more comfortable about purchasing the car and the sales of the car Increased.

Task 5：

The woman in the conversation has a problem that her roommate is planning to rent an apartment off-campus with her but the woman can’t really afford the rent. She can either ask her roommate to find someone else to share the apartment with her roommate or still live with her roommate and work-part time at the restaurant in order to pay the bills.

In my opinion, the woman should ask her roommate to find someone else to share the apartment with her roommate. First, if she still lives with her roommate off-campus, she will have to spend a lot of time working part-time. This will distract her from her studies and social life at school, which are the two most valuable things for a college student.

In addition, if she asks her roommate to find someone else to share the apartment with her roommate, the woman can continue to live on campus and be close to all the activities at school. She won’t have to struggle to pay the bills either. For these reasons, the first solution is better for the woman.

Task 6：

In the lecture, the professor talks about two mechanisms bony fish have developed in order to evade their predators, including the ability to sense water flow and remain stationary in water. In the professor’s first example, the larvae of zebra fish have been observed to grow hair cells, which allow them to sense the water flow in their surroundings.

With this mechanism, zebra fish are able to quickly evade a predatory strike when potential threats are near. Another bony fish that’s able to evade their predators is the trout. The trout is capable of remaining still in water through creating vortices by opening its gills. When the trout opens its gills, water is pushed through the gills, which forms vortices around the trout’s body. This enables the trout to align itself with the water flow and remain stationary in aquatic grasses or behind stones until their predators are gone.

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