【口语小组】thankgod备战2016年5月托福口语作业帖

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question 6
开头有点结巴
自我评价第一个点 有一个单词没记下来substance 物质 导致说的有点卡壳
第二个点说的挺好
参考答案

The professor talks about two ways lakes disappear. The first way is by natural processes. Plants are growing in the lake. When they die, they become muddy substance and fall into the bottom of the lake. Then new plants grow and die and the muddy substance will accumulate. Gradually, the lake will be filled with muddy substance and there is no room for water. The second way is by human activities. Farmers need water to irrigate their fields so they use pump to get water from the lakes. If the lakes don’t have enough refill. Say if there is not enough rain or there is no stream to come into the lakes, the lakes will eventually dry up.

参考答案2


The professor talks about two ways lake can disappear. The first is the natural process. For example, the plants in the lake die and break down into muddy substance. These will fall to the bottom of the lake. Over the year, all this substance will fill up the lake and less room for water and eventually the lake disappears. The second one is caused by human activity. For instance, the farmers need to irrigate their crops, so they pump water out from the nearby lake. It is okay if the lake has been refilled continuously by rainfall or other streams ran into it. But if there is not enough water replaced the water which the farmers take out. The lake will disappear.

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今天练习了tpo29 感觉较好
没大问题

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现在的情况
好的地方：
1。基本上如何做题的方法 学会了
2、细节基本上都抓住了
3、时间上也控制的比较好
但是问题是 如何得高分
还存在的问题
很多“呃” 碎片化的语言 还有各种停顿，纠正，还有超时的问题
很多单词发音不够标准 语速时快时慢

高分秘籍：
清晰(clear)和连贯(coherent)

建议考生多做题，每天至少大声说足20分钟。光说还不行，要与人对话、与电脑对话，尽可能多地获得反馈。如果能够让老师听，指出发音或语法错误是最好。
最简单的反馈是将自己说的英语做录音后，反复听，检查错误。只说不反馈，永远不会进步。
总结说，托福备考是一个很乏味的过程，除了反复做题外，口语和写作还要积极获得各种反馈。


Practice wherever you can and whenever you can.
Use words and phrases you know in new situations. 多尝试用自己学会的新词
Try to relax when you speak.

在能完成考试内容的前提下，尽量慢一些。

多用简单句，少用长句。这样不仅能满足“表达清晰易懂”的评分条件，同时还能满足“语法准确”的要求
当然，中间适当点缀一两句烂熟于胸的经典俚语，效果自然事半功倍。

倒金字塔结构。以求满足“组织严密结构完整”的要求，
第一步，正视问题，直接回答答案。
第二步，紧紧围绕核心答案再有一部分解释分析。
第三步，讲一些相对而言比较外延的东西。
这样一来，即使时间不够的情况下，少说一部分并不影响答案的整体性，并且重点突出，条理清晰。但是，最后一定要记得在结尾处重新点题，这样首尾呼应的结构会使主题非常突出。

经典五要素法。所谓经典五要素，是WHO、WHAT、WHY、WHERE、HOW。
做笔记的时候将这些要素点记下来，然后在答题的时候将这些要素组织起来，就是一段逻辑性强、主题明确、结构完整的口语答案了。

熟练掌握“美音”，精听和跟读。在精听的过程中，要学会找出“听力词汇”，就是外国人常连读的那些词和常用的一些连词，将它们烂熟于胸，据为己有。然后进行跟读训练，将自己的声音录下来与原声对比，然后再反复纠正、模仿，直至以假乱真。这样你的口语才会给评分老师留下自然、地道的印象。

放慢语速，音量适中。
在口语考试中，中等偏慢的语速是保证停顿次数减少的一个办法，放慢的语速可以让你边说边想。如果一旦出现思想断流，这时候在精听过程中已被你据为己有的常用连词就会出来填补空间，使整个答案保持流畅。

词汇。
熟练掌握和运用一些小的转折连词、动词和美国口语的惯用方法，这能让整个口语听起来感觉精彩。
比如，描述一个人聪明的时候，如果你用的是smart而不是clever，会给人眼前一亮的感觉，会感受到你的口语是流淌出来的，而不是挤出来的。

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练习TPO31
问题
he she 总说错
sth sb 总说错
fewer lesser 比较级总是说错
感觉每天都需要无时无刻都需要练习 考试之前要一直保持 无时无刻都处在英语的环境 自己营造无时无刻学英语的环境 不是在听 就是在说  或者在写 或者在读

question 5经常出现 time confliction
The woman is having a  a time confliction

question 出现的动物单词owl 就没听出来

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紧接着练习TPO32
group study can help you gain strong communication skills and good teamwork spirit

In discussions, you can learn different perspectives.

help broaden your horizon.

可能因为是下午做的 整个人都有点不好 哈哈哈
看来以后要上午做了
上午做一整套 模考

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好多天没练 水平严重退化
TPO 32 - Question 1
Students often like to study with others in a group. What do you think are the benefits of group study? Give at least one benefit. Explain your reasons.
get help from others ,everybody has their strength
improve communication skills how to express your idea
question2
get paid by doing housework
help them learn basic living skills like how to cook, how to wash clothes  cause they have to live along and know how to take care of themselves
strengthen their financial awareness no pain no gain
question3说的太慢没说完
因为昨天看了评分，发现得高分的关键在于内容，但是因为希望语法和词汇没有错 而且尽量多说点细节 导致语速超慢 没说完
语速慢停顿多也不可能得高分啊
首先要保证说对说万啊
question4
回答的比较好
语速比较快 也说完了
question5 没说完 没来得及说第二个reason 明显的停顿想词语，语速不均匀 前面太慢，中间模板快到听不清，复述弊端的时候说太详细，要砍掉无关紧要的细节啊
The woman\'s problem is that she has 3 paper to finish in 2 weeks but she still has part-time job to do. There are two possible solutions. The first is that she can ask her boss to reduce her work time. The second is that she can ask the professor for extension on one of her paper. I think the first solution is better because she is a student and her major concern should be the study. If she choose the second one, the teacher will take a few point off the grade and her GPA will be affected. So she\'d better finish her papers on time to make sure she can get a perfect grade.

The woman is stressed out because she has to finish 3 research papers before the end of the semester and she also has to work in an office. Her problem is that there is not enough time. There are two possible solutions. The first is that she can reduce the working hours in the office. The second is that she can get an extension on history paper. But few points will be taken. If I were the girl, I would choose the second solution. Working in an office is not just a part-time job; it may also become an opportunity after graduation. Since the history professor has already granted extension, she can take it. I think losing a few points is nothing compared to a future career.
question 6 太久没听了？ 直接没怎么听懂 关键词  contribute to the movement of plant species to a new area.没听到，第一点太啰嗦，第二点说了一句就时间到了 说的比较慢 没有intonation
roads 一直听成rose
The professor talk about the two ways roads can affect the environment. The first way is the road can contribute to the movement of plant species to a new area. The new plant may compete with the native plant for the resourse. For example, the star thistle is distributed to a new place through the road and compete for the resourse with the native plant. The native plant survive harder than before. Another way is the road can act as barriers and divide up an animal habitats into smaller ones where is not enough food to support them. For instance, the kit fox\'s habitat is divided into smaller ones by the road and the foxs can\'t find enough food. So the population of the kit fox has declined.


The professor says that roads can cause harmfully effects to plants and animals. First, for the plants, roads can cause movement of plant species from one place to the other. That will cause big problems to the existing plants in that area. Because the new plants will compete resources with existing plants. The professor gives an example of star thistle. The seeds got stuck to the tires of cars dr...
For the animals, roads act like a barrier that shut in animals in small pieces of lands. This will cause big harmful effects to animal survive because there is not enough food to support animal population. For example, the kit fox hunt small animals which are spread out in a large areas of open grass lands. Its population had declined because of the roads.


The professor talks about two ways roads harmfully affect the environment. The first way is by transporting plants to new areas. The transported plants will compete with native plants for natural resources. For example, there is a kind of weed, starthistle that gets transported by tires. In the new environment, it competes with native plants for water. This makes it harder for native plants to survive. The second way is by dividing the animal habits into smaller areas. Animals in smaller areas won’t have enough food to support themselves. For example, Kit fox eats mice and squirrels. These small animals spread over large tracts of land. Now the fox’s habitat has been divided by high ways. It’s very hard for the fox to find enough food. So the number of the fox decreases.

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TPO 33
感觉
内容好 4分
没卡顿 没语法和用词的大错误 3分
我只能得2分的水平 嘤嘤 马上考试了啊

question 1 存在问题
总是想把句子说完，说太长，导致卡
其实有一些小的 介词或者 什么的 不要太纠结 因为太长的停顿更要命
题目
A friend of yours wants to go to university next year but cannot decide on a major field of study. What advice would you give your friend to help make this decision?
参考答案
If I have a friend who is undecided on what to major in, I will suggest him or her to see a student counselor, for few reasons. First, a student counselor is a trained person who can help someone to discover his or her interest. The counselor can too explain each course in details and help my friend to understand more about each field. Second, seeing a student counselor is free of charge anyway.
参考答案
suggest him or her to think from the following two aspects
what kind of  interests he or she have
what kind of career do they want to have in the future
参考答案
My advice would be to follow your interests. There is a famous saying that you are good at what you like and you like what you are good at. If my friend had an interest, I would suggest he stick to it, even if it is not a practical field and it’s not gonna help find any jobs. But, with interests, one tries hard and makes the best of oneself effortlessly. For example, if a person is interested in history, this person won’t feel bored reading ponderous books. He or she may enjoy reading hard-to-understand materials or books of ancient while others may feel it is tiring and boring.
这个段子也可以用在choose happy  work

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question 2 比1 回答的好一些
果然刚开始开口大脑会有点短路啊
也可能是因为 题材是准备过比较多的 food相关的
不仅讲了两个而且语速也比较快 而且也用了很多单词 时间掐的也刚刚好

结论就是
多练 多总结段子
题目
Do you think that eating healthy food is easier or more difficult today than it was 40 or 50 years ago? Use examples and details to support your answer.
参考答案
Yeah, I think so. I think the first reason is that our pace of life has increased a lot. Most people in the city don’t have enough time cooking. They either eat in the restaurant or eat fast food. And most of the food there are prepared hastily or they are plain junk food. More importantly, unlike 40 or 50 years ago, the fruits and vegetables are mostly grown in greenhouses with heavy use of chemicals. Animals are raised in factories with extremely bad environments. So the food sources are unhealthy. Even if we cook carefully, it’s still harder to eat healthy food.

参考答案
In my opinion, I think it is much easier today compare to 40 or 50 years ago, for these reasons. First, I can buy healthy food from hypermarkets or shops easily. For example, there is a Tesco near my house and I can just walk to Tesco to buy the healthy food. Second, healthy food is labeled correctly, where the label provides information about the produce itself. I can decide what kind of nutrition 。。。

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question 3
没说完 强行想在propose部分就把原因说出来，结果后面第二个根本来不及说了
阅读材料
阅读材料
Bicycle Borrowing Program
It’s great that the university has a program where students can borrow bicycles from the gym. However, two changes would make the program more convenient. First, the borrowing period should be shortened to four hours maximum so that (so that 后面的前面总结的时候就不要说了呀)more bikes would be available when students want to borrow them. Second, currently, students who borrow bikes have to leave a cash deposit 保证金, which is returned to them when they return the bikes, but I think students should be required to leave their student identification cards instead, so they don’t have to remember to bring cash.
Sincerely,
Susan Lee
问题
The man expresses his opinion about the proposal described in the letter. Briefly summarize the proposal. Then state his opinion about the proposal and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion.
参考答案  这题是两个suggestion 而不是一个suggestion 两个reason
The writer of the letter gives two suggestions. The first suggestion is to shorten the bicycle borrowing period so that more bikes will be available. The second suggestion is to leave student cards instead of cash when students borrow bicycles. But the man in the conversation does agree with the two suggestions. 到这里22秒 First of all, he thinks that students borrowing bicycles usually need longer periods. For example, his friend and he borrow bicycles every weekend to go off-campus. They often go to the state park and it usually takes a whole day. Secondly, he thinks that if students leave their cards when borrowing bicycles, they won’t be able to get into library or dining halls. This will create inconvenience.到这里50秒
review
保证在30s内说完阅读内容和表明态度，为后面解释细节留够时间。
我自己讲的时候花了37秒 前面废话太多
参考答案
The student make some suggestions on the bicycle borrowing programs in the university. He thinks that the borrowing period should be shorten to 4 hours and the students can could leave their ID cards when they borrow bicycles. The man in the conversation disagree with this proposal for the following reasons. First, some students need the bicycle for longer period. Such like himself, he sometimes borrows the bicycle to go hiking outside of town and he comes back very late. Second, the students have to show their ID cards to enter some buildings on the campus, they might not be allowed to enter these buildings till they get their card back.

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question 4 生物
阅读材料
Carrying Capacity
An animal species needs to have enough resources, like food and water, to survive in any given environment. However, because resources are limited, only a certain number of animals of a particular species are able to survive in a given habitat. The greatest number a habitat can support is known as the carrying capacity. If nothing happens to disrupt or unbalance the relationship between the animal and its habitat, the carrying capacity will remain stable. However, a carrying capacity is not fixed. If there is a significant disruption, such as an environmental event that alters the amount of available resources in the habitat, the carrying capacity will change.
听力材料 红色是觉得重要的细节但是没听到的
1. OK, so let's talk about what happened to a certain type of insect, a moth, a red-and-black moth that lives in Europe.
2. These moths eat a plant called Ragwort and they live in fields where the Ragwort plants grow.
3. Now, there was a group of moth that lives in one of these fields and, for many years, there was a lot of Ragwort growing there.
4. So the moth had plenty to eat and the total number of moth in the field stayed pretty much the same.
5. But then one year it rained a lot less than usual and the Ragwort didn't grow as well.
6. The result was that the moth didn't get enough to eat and many didn't survive but even the ones that did survive didn't lay as many eggs as before.
7. So that year the moth population in the field was quite a bit smaller.
8. The next year, though, the amount of rainfall returned to normal and again many more Ragwort plants grew and, once again, there was a lot available for the moth to eat.
9. So that year the moth population increased and the female moth laid many more eggs than the year before.
10. And now, after all that rainfall and plant growth, there were just as many moth in the Ragwort field as there were before.
题目
Explain the concept of carrying capacity using the example of the moth and Ragwort.
参考答案
The greatest number of animals a habitat can support is called carrying capacity. Carrying capacity is not fixed. It changes according to the environment. 12s The professor uses the relationship of moth and ragwort to illustrate this concept. Moth is a kind of insect that eats ragwort. Ragwort is a plant that grows in the field. Normally, the number of moth in the ragwort field is stable. But if there were a lot less rain in a year, ragwort wouldn’t grow well. Moth wouldn’t survive and even those that survived lay fewer eggs. So the number of moth would decrease. But if the rain went back to a normal level, the ragwort would grow well. Moth would have enough to eat and would lay more eggs. And the number of moth would also increase.52s
参考答案

The concept of carrying capacity means the greatest number a habitat can support. The carrying capacity usually remain stable but it can be changed when there is significant change and disruption. 15s The professor uses moths and ragwort to illustrate. Moths eat kind of plant called ragwort and they live in the place there is lots of ragwort. One year it rained a lot less than usual and the ragwort didn\'t grow well. So many moths didn\'t survive because there wasn\'t enough to eat. Female moths didn\'t lay as much eggs. Therefore, the population of moths decreased. The ragwort grew better next year since the amount of rainfall returned to normal. So the number of moths increased, and female moths laid more eggs. Now, the population of moths has returned to normal.55s

总结

自己说的时候，下雨量回归正常想不起来normal，在纠结要不要讲lay egg 这个细节，其实语速快的话完全可以带到，两个参考答案都说了

这个moth 的种类 red and black live in europe 都是无关紧要的细节

一些流程性的词语 Therefore, So, which end up with

语法和用词总体没问题，也够“不简单”，但是很慢呀，很卡顿呀，没说完呀，这个题甚至有一半concept没总结进去呀

总是想着要说那句练习起来的话导致都没说完 其实参考答案都没说那句话

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question 5 一般都做的比较好
这个题目特别之处在于，一般两个solution的主语都是一个人，这个solution一个是woman... 一个是man...
其他
work for you  
Cover you shift
work my shift
问题
Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which of the two solutions from the conversations you would recommend. Explain the reason for your recommendation.
参考答案
The man has promised the girl to take her place to work tonight. But he didn’t know that he was going to have a music rehearsal at the same time. But the girl has already made her plan this evening. So this is the problem. There are two solutions. The man, Bob, quits the music rehearsal and goes to work as he promised. Or, the girl cancels her plan with her friends. I would recommend the man to work as he promised, because it’s he who created the problem. If he hadn’t promised the girl to take her place, she probably wouldn’t have made her plan tonight. Even if there are new songs he hasn't practiced and tonight is the last practice, he has to take full responsibility of the mess, which is made by him.40s
参考答案2

The man promised to cover the shift at the dining hall for the women. However, the problem is that the man has a rehearsal to attend and cannot cover the shift anymore. It is hard for the woman to find someone else to take the shift and she wants to watch the play tonight. There are two options.The first one is that the man can explain to the band leader and cover the shift. The other option is that the woman takes the shift by herself and watches the play the other day. 34s

From my perspective, I think the second option is better. Since it is the last practice before the concert and some of the songs are new to him, it would be better for the man to attend the practice tonight, or his performance might lead the whole band to sound bad. Although the woman will miss the play tonight, there still might be chances that the play is playing for another week. She can watch it later. 60s我都没读完

我的问题
强行套模板 发现这个题目不适用。。。

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question 6
问题
Using the professor’s example of the pizza restaurant, explain two advantages of franchising.
参考答案
The professor talks about two advantages of franchising. The first advantage is that the established company will provide training for you and all your employees. For example, if you open a pizza restaurant by franchising, the company will teach you how to prepare the pizza, how to take orders and basically teach you how to operate the restaurant like other restaurants of the company. You just follow its plan to success. The second advantage is its established customer base. Because it is an established company, its products are already well known. People will trust it even if it’s in a new location. For example, the pizza restaurant you open has the same name as the others’. People already know the name and they’ll go to your restaurant because they trust the name and think they will definitely have good experience.
参考答案2
The professor talk about two advantages of franchising. The first is that you and all of your employees can get training provided by the company and you do not have to get training yourself or come up with your own business plan. For example, if you open a new pizza restaurant. Someone from the company will train you and your employees how to run the company. The second is that franchising establish customer base. Because you restaurant brand already have loyal customers following. For example, if you open a new restaurant with the same name of the company\'s famous pizza brand, people will come to your restaurant because they already trust they\'ll have good experience here.
这题没有大问题

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马上做了TPO34
两个lecture都没有挺好 说的也不好
question1&2 说的都挺好 话题都挺熟的
第一题
I think it's a great idea. It's sth that I was always dreaming of .
想不起来seat 说的desk
Seating is scarce 座位紧张
reduce/ ease /alleviate   traffic congestion 减少交通拥堵
... is one of the most effective ways to solve traffic problems in large cities.
solve the problem of traffic jam
alternative solutions 替代方案


question 3
阅读
The academic dean. 教务长
听力
So these are things most students wind up having to learn on their own at first.紧张

question 4
阅读没怎么看懂  主旨句也没有找到，或者说抄下来
长单词的缩写 阅读材料
The Familiarity Principle
People tend to develop a preference for things they have previously encountered, things they are familiar with. Social psychologists refer to this tendency as the familiarity principle. Given a choice between two similar items, one they have experienced before and another that is new. most people will choose the familiar item. This principle operates even when people are not conscious 没理解的关键在这个词语 of their previous experience with an item. 跟呢么没意识到自己之前的经历 Once people have been exposed to an item, even if they do not recall having been exposed to it, they will tend to prefer that item over other items to which they have not been previously exposed.

回答的时候明显感觉自己把 experiment 说成了examination 慌了 但还是继续说下去了whether 说成where
geometric说成 geography
这样的问题经常犯 比如把grade 说成 degree
文不对嘴。。。。
没说完

1. Some researchers did an experiment related to this.

2. What they did was they assembled a group of subjects, a group of students, and they showed these students a series of geometrical 几何 shapes.

3. These were very distinctive shapes, a little unusual, not the kind of shapes students often see.

4. But they only showed the students the shapes for a very short period of time, about a second.

5. They also lowered the light in the room to make it even more difficult for the students to see the shapes.

6. So the shapes were there for a split second in dim light and then they were gone.

7. In the next step of the experiment, the researchers again showed the students some shapes, but this time they gave the students a longer time to look at them.

8. And this time they showed the images in pairs, two at a time.

9. In each pair, one shape was a shape the students had already seen for just a split second in dim light.

10. And the other was some other shape that hadn't been shown to them before.

11. After presenting each pair, the researchers asked the students to say which of the two shapes they liked better.

12. Most of the time, the students preferred the shape they'd already seen earlier in the experiment.

13. Now, if you asked them if they'd already seen that shape, they probably wouldn't know for sure.

14. But that didn't matter.

15. They still tended to prefer the shapes they'd already seen.

问题

Explain how the experiment described by the professor illustrates the familiarity principle.参考答案

Familiarity principle is a tendency that people have a preference for what they have previously encountered, even if they\'re not conscious of their previous exposure to his item.

Just like the experiment in the lecture. A group pf students are shown some distinctive shapes under dim light for less than a second, then the shapes are gone. In the next part of the experiment, each student is shown a pair of shapes. One shape is the one they have seen before while the other is a new shape.

Then they are asked to pick one shape they prefer, and most of them preferred the one they\'ve seen before, even if they\'re not aware of the fact that they\'ve been exposed to this shape ealier.

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question 5 的问题是 Canada 和French傻傻分不清楚
trip to Canada to Montreal which is in the French‐speaking part of Canada.
蒙特利尔啊
蒙特利尔（Montreal）坐落于加拿大渥太华河和圣劳伦斯河交汇处，是加拿大第二大城市、魁北克省最大城市。曾经是加拿大20世纪70年代前的最大城市，是加拿大著名的工商业和金融中心，该市是典型的英法双语城市。因为全市的哥特式教堂林立和法语居民占多数，体现出独特的法国文化底蕴，被认为是北美的“浪漫之都”。蒙特利尔是一个繁荣的国际大都市，其独特的文化个性、优美的城市风光、闲适的生活情调多次被评为全球最适宜人类居住的城市之一，同时也是是加拿大历史最悠久的城市，具有浓郁的拉丁气息。
蒙特利尔是世界上仅次于巴黎的第二大法语城市，是加拿大历史最悠久的城市、约有三百五十多万人口、是加拿大第二大城市和海港。

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question 6 生物
没听好 没说好
因为只听到第二个example的frog 的名字以为第一个没听到，其实第一个就没有(喜极而泣)
想蒸发这个单词想不起来evaporate

基本上听了不知道是什么的单词太多了
amphibians 两栖动物
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For example, some frogs secrete 藏匿，分泌 a substance through their skin, a fatty substance that they rub off over their skin using their hands and feet, which creates a waxy layer all around their bodies that's almost completely water‐tight.
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. The aptly适宜的 named water-holding frog,for example,has a bladder 膀胱 that is highly elastic and stretchable.