【解析】2014年4月托福口语考试独立题TASK 1

4.12 托福口语独立题TASK 1题干：
　　A：Talk about how cellphone has changed people’s lives. Explain your answer in details.
　　B：Talk about the ways Internet has benefited people’s lives. Explain your answer in details.

两套第一题难度都不大，因为电子产品、通讯工具和互联网和大多数考生日常生活息息相关，感受深刻，例子一抓一大把。我相信考生们在课堂上也一定做了足够多的训练。甚至，有一些理由可以在这两道题中通用，比如:

- The cellphone/Internet has allowed us to communicate with people far from us, even in different countries.
　　- With the help of cellphone/Internet, we can know the latest news, so we would know better about what is going on in the society.
　　- Whenever I have problems, especially when I get lost, I don’t need to ask other people for help. The cellphone/Internet can tell me where to go and I can easily find my destination. I9kk

但是，请注意，两道题之间有一个很大的区别。大陆B的题目更倾向于我们平时的训练，因为题干当中出现了一个很明显带有正评价的词“benefit”，我们只需要说网络的优点即可，非常类似考生们习惯的Task 2。
　　在大陆A套题中，题干使用的动词时“change”，这是一个中性词。也就是说，在回答大陆A套题时，我们可以详细解释手机的两到三个优点，也可以优缺点间杂着说，甚至选择全部说缺点都是可以的，故考生在答题时，发挥的余地会比大陆B套题更大。

4月19日大陆考区并没有分开两套口语题，而是使用了全国统一的一套。

4.19 托福口语独立题TASK 1题干：
　　Talk about an important decision that you have made. Explain why this decision is important to you.

描述一个你做过的非常重要的决定，难中之难事件题！但是考点不算偏，和日常生活也足够紧密，所以考生们无需太过紧张。虽然事件题属于独立题里最具有个人特征的提醒，比较难找出一个统一的答案，但是鉴于考生多数为在校学生，我们可以总结出三个主要的场景：选择专业、出国留学、选择工作。

例文：
　　I made an important decision last year when I was about to graduate from high school. Students often face some difficulties when they are required to choose major. For me, it was even harder.
　　My parents are both successful businessmen and they have always wanted me to take over the family owned business. So they asked me to study finance, accounting and related business majors. But for me, I like Chinese novels very muchand I think numbers and business are boring, so I would like to choose to study Chinese literature. My father was certainly not happy about that and we had some arguments that time. 
　　Finally, I surrendered to my father and chose business management major. Now it turns out it’s a good decision because I can use the knowledge to help my parents and I can still enjoy reading during my spare time.

4.27 托福口语独立题TASK 1题干：
　　Describe a person you want to learn more about. Explain why you want to know more about this person.

简单题，入门题，大家都会说的人物题，但是要注意和以往常见题目的区别。人物题最常见的几种形式: Describe the person you admire the most. / Describe the most influential person in your community. / Describe the person you always talk to. 以及其他。
　　无论哪一种，都是基于考生对那个人的了解展开论述。而这题，考察的恰恰是我们“不了解”、“想要了解”的部分。所以千万不要陷入惯性思维一味地述说人物的特点，而是在讲述你了解的特点之余，穿插一部分你尚不知道但是有兴趣的信息。

例文：
　　The person I want to lean more about is Steve Jobs, the former CEO of the Apple company, which produces Iphone and Ipad. I have two reasons. First, everybody knows that before Steve worked for Apple, the company suffered loss and none of its products was successful.

It was only after Steve became the CEO that Apple started to boom and kick other competitors out. So I am really interested in this process, how his team invented Iphone and made it successful. Second, Steve Jobs gives perfect speeches. His words “stay hungry, stay foolish” became the motto of thousands of teenagers. So I want to know what kind of experience he had when he was young. Maybe this will help me understand life better.

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