2015年12月5日托福口语预测

12月5日托福口语预测task1:
　　Which of the following do you think is the most difficult and challenging for university students? Being far away from families finding time to relax or making new friends.
　　sample answer：
　　As I am prepared to go to study in a foreign country, I can imagine that making new friends there must be the most challenging one. First, as a non-native speaker, I cannot communicate with the native speakers very well. As a result, I may stay indoors without contact with the locals. To immerse myself in the local environment, I need to learn how to speak the language so that I can trade ideas with the local people and make new friends with them. Second, I might also feel uncomfortable to speak with people from different countries. I may find it hard to express myself and difficult to swap ideas with other people partly due to my personality. So I need to become open and feel free to talk to the locals. And thus I can make new friends and feel no longer lonely.

12月5日托福口语预测task2:
　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement - gifts made by people themselves are more meaningful than the gifts bought from store? 　　　　
　　Explain why. Please include details and examples in your explanation.
　　sample answer：
　　Personally, I think gifts handmade by people themselves are more meaningful because it is time-consuming and people can always make more money but never more time. For example, one of my best friends made me a purse from scratch for my birthday last year. The whole project took her a week, which means that she had to sacrifice her sleep time or other free time she could have saved for herself or her other friends. I felt so touched upon receiving the gift and cried. However, if she simply bought a gift for me, I wouldn't be as impressed because it's more difficult to have time for someone we care about than to give money to them. Therefore, handmade gifts are more meaningful.

12月5日托福口语预测task3:
　　A student has written a letter proposing that the university should forbid laptops in class and the student in the conversation disagrees with this proposal. First, according to the student in the letter, a lot of students are doing something else on their laptops rather than taking notes of the lecture, which is a distraction for other students who are trying to concentrate in class. The student in the conversation, on the other hand, argues that it’s a personal choice whether a student concentrates in class since everyone here is an adult.
　　As long as they are not disturbing other students, they have the right to do whatever they want on their laptops. In addition,the student in the letter believes that lecture notes can be jotted down with just papers and pens,which means bringing a laptop to class in unnecessary. However, the student in the conversation finds this proposal unfair because like himself, a lot of students type faster than they write. Therefore, the student in the conversation opposes the proposal.

12月5日托福口语预测task4:
　　The term “rebound effect” refers to the economic phenomenon that the introduction of new technologies which improves the efficiency of resource use actually increases the demand for more resources. The professor in the lecture uses the example of a more fuel-efficient car to explain how people’s behavioral responses to energy-saving technologies create more demand for energy.
　　A more fuel-efficient car makes each mile travelled cheaper because with the same amount of fuel, the driver is able travel farther than before, which is supposed to reduce people’s demand for oil. However,given better gas mileage, people tend to drive more frequently or drive longer distances. From the consumer’s perspective, the new energy-saving technology is something that allows them to drive more with the same cost of oil instead of something that saves them money when they maintain the same amount of use. As a result, oil consumption in general increases rather than decreases.

12月5日托福口语预测task5:
　　The man in the conversation just lost his summer internship and he has to take care of an apartment that he has already leased with his friend. He can either go back to his parents’ for the summer and sublet his apartment to someone else or stay in town and find another summer internship. In my opinion, it is better for the man to find another job for the summer break in town.
　　First, if he goes back to his parents’ for the summer and sublets his apartment to someone else, his friend might be upset because the new tenant could have terrible living habits, which was not what his friend agreed to in the first place. His relationship with his friend would be jeopardized in this case. On the other hand, if he chooses to stay in town and find another less ideal internship for the summer, he will not only be able to accumulate some work experience but also maintain his friendship with his roommate. For these reasons, I think the man should go with the second solution.

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12月5日托福口语预测task6:
　　In the lecture, the professor talks about two disadvantages under the incentive payment system, which rewards employees based on their performance, including unfair rewards for employees and less profitability for the company. In the professor's first example,a potential customer came in to an electronics store and shopped around. One of the salesmen tried very hard to sell to this customer and answered lots of questions.
　　The customer didn't buy anything on the first day but came back to the store the next day and purchased the product from another salesman. In this case, the incentive pay will go to the second salesman but in fact it was the first salesman who did most of the selling. In the second example, an experienced, successful salesman at another company wasn't willing to share his selling skills to other less experienced employees because he wanted to keep all the bonuses to himself. As a result,the company couldn't profit in the long run.

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