2018年3月3日托福口语真题权威解析

本次考试难度适中。独立部分，Task1延续了最近热门的三选一话题，但是由于是大家比较熟悉的校园生活背景，因此难度不大。Task2出现了不太常见的moral values话题，考生们刚一遇到可能会有点没有头绪，但是仔细分析题干还是能够找出结果的。综合部分，Task3和Task5难度适中，重在理解。Task4是心理学话题，如果考生们在日常生活中有类似经验，可能会比较容易理解，解题关键在于听懂两次旅程的对比。Task6是生物学话题，不熟悉此类话题的考生可能会觉得稍微有些难度。

Task1

考题回忆

Your school is planning to add some information on the school news board. Which one would you choose: travel, reviews of restaurants nearby or films.

State your opinion and explain why.

话题分类

事件

解题思路

这是一道三选一的话题，难度适中。三个选项中，旅行，餐馆和电影都是托福口语Task1和Task2较为常见的话题，因此考生们可参考的模板还是挺多的。这三个话题，任选其一都可以的。

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I think the school should definitely add the reviews of restaurant nearby on the school news board. Firstly, this kind of information may not be available from other resources. I mean, you can always find a lot of information about famous tourist attractions and the latest movies from media, but the information about local restaurants could be rather limited. Besides, reviews of restaurant nearby will be extremely significant in helping students to choose a good place to eat. As we can all imagine, having a nice meal is not only beneficial to students’ psychical health, but can also help them to enjoy some quality time and relax mentally.

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Task 2

考题回忆

Do you agree with the following statement?

School should be responsible to teach students moral values.

State your opinion and explain why.

话题分类

事件

解题思路

本题可从两个角度展开：

1. 从学校和社会的角度，对孩子进行道德教育，有助于孩子长大后成为对社会有益处的人；

2. 从孩子的角度，小孩子还不懂明辨是非，而接受了道德教育之后，他们往往能够有意义、有价值德度过一生。

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From my point of view, I do believe it is crucial for schools to have moral value lessons, such as teaching students to be honest. There are two reasons. Firstly, these classes are beneficial to the society. The essence of education is never solely academic study. As a matter of fact, the as significant part is teaching students how to be a moral person. Only this way, a student can grow up to be a useful man to the whole society. Besides, young adults are usually very vulnerable and easily affected by bad influences. Schools have the responsibility to teach them right and wrong and help them to live a meaningful life ever since.

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Task 3

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阅读部分

学校要取消人少的club，为了省钱

听力部分

不同意

1. 学校本身给club花的钱就很少；

2. 人少的club成员间的关系会更好

话题分类

学校计划

解题思路

本题难度不大，是比较常见的校园生活话题，并且几个重要信息点都比较清晰。相信考生们只要读懂题目，听懂听力材料，组织语言应该不会太困难。

参考范文

The school is going to cancel the clubs that only have few members. First reason of the school is that they will be able to save a sum of money by doing so. Yet, the girl totally disagrees with it. She thinks that the school doesn’t give much money to the clubs in the first place. Since the amount of fund is not huge to begin with, the school won’t save a lot by canceling the clubs. Secondly, the university thinks it is unnecessary for a club with so few members to exist. However, the girl argues that it is actually a rather good thing to have less people in a club, because the members can get to know each other and become true friends. It is a valuable chance for people who share the same interests to get together, and it will definitely be beneficial to students’ future career. Thus the girl doesn’t agree with the new plan.

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Task 4

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阅读部分

标题：holiday paradox

定义：人们对周围环境熟悉，感觉时间就过得慢；不熟悉就过得快。

听力部分

例子：教授和妻子去意大利，旅游度假一开始什么都不熟悉，觉得时间过得很慢，以后熟悉了就觉得时间过得快。

话题分类

心理学

解题思路

1. 本题的定义句不难概括总结，唯一有点难度的是定义其实有两个主要内容，考生们在描述定义的时候可能需要注意概括总结，避免超时。

2. 本题听力部分难度适中，难点可能在于两次旅途的对比。需要考生们仔细听懂听力材料才好概括。

参考范文

The definition of holiday paradox is that if people are unfamiliar with the surrounding environment, they will feel time passes by quickly. Yet, if they get familiar with the circumstance, they will feel like time has slowed down. The professor gives us his own example. When he and his wife were travelling to Italy, at first, naturally they didn’t know the new environment in the foreign country. So they were very curious, and spent the whole day exploring the exotic land. At that time, they felt like time passed by too quickly. However, they went back to Italy again later. And this time, since they already got some knowledge of the place, it only took them one day to visit museums and many other places. They were amazed that they could visit so many places in one day, thus they even felt like the time passed by slowly.

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Task 5

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问题：一个人过生日，但女生只给一部分人买了concert的票

解决方案1：

退了之前的票，再一起买

好处大家可以坐一起，但是坏处是就买不到很好的座位了；

解决方案2：

不退票了，大家分开坐，听完以后一起去吃饭。

话题分类

人际关系问题

解题思路

1. 本题难度适中。两条解决措施比较清晰，也比较容易概括。

2. 两条解决措施都可以选择，但是选择第二条可能理由稍微多一些。

参考范文

The woman has a problem. She got concert tickets for some of her friends to celebrate a birthday, but people were arranged into two different areas and they wouldn’t be able to sit together during the concert. There are two solutions. The first one is to return all the tickets and book some tickets in one area. The second choice is to sit separately and get dinner together after the concert. As for me, I would choose the second choice. Well to start with, if I refund the tickets now, even though I will buy some tickets again, I won’t be able to get the same good positions again. Besides, if we are all attracted to the performance upstage, we will hardly pay much attention to the people around us. Also, we decide to grab dinner together, so there will be plenty of chances for us to celebrate later. I guess it is just not worth it.

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Task 6

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话题：白蚁巢穴对生态系统的影响(termite mound，讲termite mound，白蚁窝对植物和其他动物的benefit)

要点1：对动物而言可以提供height去侦察，找吃的，观察地形

例子1： 举了一种猫，可以爬到白蚁窝上观察找吃的，站的更高

要点2：对植物而言可以让雨水渗透泥土保留水分，巢穴里有tunnel，可以帮助雨水下渗，提高土壤质量

例子2：沙漠里有白蚁窝的地方的植物会更加茂盛，而没有的地方就显得枯黄。

话题分类

生命科学

解题思路

1. 本题条理还是比较清楚的，考生们根据professor的逻辑来，还是比较容易理解文章大大意的。

2. 难点可能在于考生们对生物学知识不熟悉，不确定termite mounds是什么意思。

参考范文

The professor is talking about the benefits termite mounds can have to other animals and plants. Firstly, to animals, termite mounds can provide them perfect spots to observe surrounding environment. You know, termite mounds are always higher than the ground, so they can surely provide the height animals need when they are trying to see what is going on nearby. For example, it is being noticed that a certain kind of cat will use termite mounds as their watchtowers when they need to find food. The second benefit is brought to plants in the area, for which, termite mounds can let the rain get into the dirt. Here is a fact. In a desert, the plants are always more thriving in places with termite mounds, because the dirt in that area gets more water than other places. On the contrary, places with no termite mounds may probably have no plants.

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