2015年5月24日托福口语真题回忆

Task 1: Talk about a volunteer work you enjoy doing, explain why you enjoy it in details.
　　Task 2: Some people prefer to work in an office, others prefer to work from home. Which do you prefer?
　　Task 3
　　Reading:
　　Notice: The university is going to cancel the poetry writing class
　　Reason 1: Few students enrolled in
　　Reason 2: The students can take a similar class in the nearby university
　　Listening:
　　The man disagrees
　　Reason 1: Fewer students means smaller classes, that’s a good thing for students because it offers students enough attention from the professors and that’s very important
　　Reason 2: It’s inconvenient, the other university is actually pretty far away like an hour by bus, most of students don’t have a car so it’s too difficult for them to commute
　　Task 4
　　Definition: Releasers are certain stimuli that can lead animals to do a corresponding behavior
　　Example 1: Toads love to eat worms. They eat anything that looks like a worm, so if you put a pencil around them and keep moving it at the same time, they will attack the pencil. So the pencils here are like a stimuli.
　　Example 2: Geese protect their eggs. If something is approaching, they use their beaks to throw things onto the nest to protect the baby geese. So round object to geese is like a releaser.
　　Task 5
　　Problem: She wants to take an economics class, but she has another 4 required classes to take, she’s worried she won’t be able to keep up.
　　Solution 1: Audit the economics class
　　Pro: No papers and stuff
　　Con: less motivated to work hard on it
　　Solution 2: Sign up for this course later
　　Con: he would be really busy by then cus he has part-time job to take care of
　　Task 6
　　Majority influence happens when an individual’s behavior is affected and altered by group thoughts.
　　Example 1: You’re driving friends to a restaurant and don’t know which way to go, the rest of people in the car think you should go straight and actually you want to turn right or left, but you are more likely to change your idea because the majority of the group thinks you should go straight.
　　Example 2: You’re going to a movie with some people you want to impress. After the movie, even though you didn’t like it at all, the rest of people think it was great, so you’re more likely to agree with them instead of speaking your own mind because you want to blend in.