托福机经：2013年3月16日托福口语机经

　  1、Talk about a thing you always wanted to do but didn’t have time to yet. Explain why you want to do it, give examples and details in your explanation.

　　描述你想做但是未作的一件事儿，并阐述一下为什么

　　参考答案：

　　I’ve always wanted to travel more if I’ve the time to do so. First of all, travel connects us with people. One of my favorite things about visiting a new place is learning about the ways the people who live there are different than me. Travelling makes me feel part of a larger whole, which means I am never alone. Also, we get to find out more about other cultures while traveling. We can look at different landscapes, try new foods, experience other customs and maybe even learn to speak another language.

　　2、Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is better to live at a place where the climate stays the same all year round.

　　如果可以选择，你想在四季气候差不多的地方生活还是四季气候变化的地方生活

　　参考答案：

　　I disagree with the statement that it’s better to live at place where the climate doesn’t change all year round. First of all, we get to do so many different activities during different seasons. Take Beijing for example. The temperature and climate change from season to season pretty dramatically here. That means I can fly a kite in spring, swim in an out door pool and enjoy the sun in summer, take beautiful pictures of the turning leafs during all and ski with friends when snow builds up in the mountains in winter. Also, when the temperature fluctuates, our life style changes with it, our body adopts too. I believe this is good for our immune system.

　　3、心理学部要改变午餐计划，女学生同意说这样很好很难得有机会正式和教授交流的机会；可以了解同学，一般上课是大课50-100人等等，开这个能有个机会去交流

　　Key Points:

　　Reading: The department of psychology is going to change its lunch plans.

　　Listening: The girl agrees with this change because of the two reasons.

　　Reason 1: It’s a great chance for students to have a formal communication with their professors.

　　Reason 2: It’s a good way for students to communicate with each other because the class size is usually 50-100 students which is very hard for them to get to know each other.

　　4. social perseverance，自己一直认为对的事情，即使后来发现是错的，也还是会按照原来的做法去做。例子是教授说自己小时候被妈妈嘱咐冬天多穿衣服防止感冒，长大了发现感冒其实和身体温度无关，感冒是被病毒传染的，发现妈妈说的貌似不对，但是还是没有改变冬天穿很多的习惯，并且这么告诉他的孩子们

　　Key Points:

　　Reading: Social perseverance is the tendency to cling to ideas even when confronted with evidence to the contrary. This resistance might cause people to hold onto any sort of belief or opinion when the belief is shown to be unfounded or has even proved to be completely untrue.

　　Listening: When the professor was young, by his mother told him to wear warm clothes to avoid getting cold. But after he grew up, he learnt that the cold has nothing to do with temperature but can be transmitted through virus. However, even though he knew his mom was wrong, he would still keep the habit of wearing warm clothes in the winter and told his own kids to do so.

　　5、两人说学校活动（hiking）学生太多，怎么办，S1 BY car，但是有60个人，一次只能带4个人，他要往返多次去接人，费时，他自己也没有办法hiking了；S2，租车（van），租个Van，足够大，但是贵，每个人得交钱，让这些人交钱会不高兴，能有人就不愿意去了

　　Key Points:

　　Problem: The students are going hiking but how they would get there becomes a problem due to the large number of participants.

　　Solution 1: They can go there by car.

　　Comment: There are 60 students, while the car can only take four at one time. So the car should run back and forth for several times that the driver may not have a chance of going hiking.

　　Solution 2: They can rent a van.

　　Comment: The van is big enough to take everybody at one time, but the expense is so high that everyone has to pay for it. There maybe someone who feels unhappy with this way and cancel his or her plan to go hiking.

　　6、Biology professor用两种insects解释声音的作用，一种是发出危险信号，比如小的thorn bug遇到危险找妈妈，妈妈收到信号回来保护；另一种是找吃的，tree hopper 找到新鲜叶子会发出信号告诉同伴，一起吃

　　Key Points:

　　Point1 : make alarming signals

　　Eg. Thorn bug

　　Point 2: find some fresh food

　　Eg. Tree hopper