2011年5月14日托福iBT考试口语真题

1. You will now be asked a question about a familiar topic. After you hear the question, you will have 15 seconds to prepare your response and 45 seconds to speak.

2. You will now be asked a question about a familiar topic. After you hear the question, you will have 15 seconds to prepare your response and 45 seconds to speak.

3. You will now read a short passage and then listen to a talk on the same topic. You will then be asked a question about them. After you hear the question, you will have 30 seconds to prepare your response and 60 seconds to speak.

Now hear a conversation about the same topic.

4. You will now read a short passage and then listen to a talk on the same topic. You will then be asked a question about them. After you hear the question, you will have 30 seconds to prepare your response and 60 seconds to speak.

Now hear a talk on the same subject.

5. You will now listen to a conversation. You will then be asked a question about it. After you hear the question, you will have 20 seconds to prepare your response and 60 seconds to speak.

6. You will now listen to part of a lecture. You will then be asked a question about it. After you hear the question, you will have 20 seconds to prepare your response and 60 seconds to speak.

Solution

Question 1

Is it good or bad to work a year before studying at university? Please include specific details in your explanation.

Note ( 笔记)

Response( 参考答案)

Question 2

Do you prefer to write a long essay or give a speech in front of class for an assignment?

Include reasons and details in your explanation.

Note ( 笔记)

Response( 参考答案)

Question 3

Conversation

M: Hello, dear, have you heard of the new policy about ride-sharing? We have to organize car-pools for transportation.

W: Well, I support this new policy. Maybe it can be very helpful to some extent.

M: Can you explain it a little bit? I don’t get it.

W: Have you noticed that ride-sharing is one of the most common and cost effective alternatives for students’ transport? I mean, the cost of sharing a ride is cheaper than a taxi or other means of transportation, because the cost will be divided among members.

The program also helps lower the costs of gasoline or car operation since car-pooling needs few vehicles to transport students back and forth everyday. Isn’t it great?

M: Hmm, I can see your point. But other than costs, what else is it good for?

W: Well, it helps protect our environment because fewer cars on the road also means less air pollution, including carbon emissions that contribute to climate change.

M: I haven’t thought of that! Your words make a lot of sense to me.

Note ( 笔记)

Response( 参考答案)

Question 4

Lecture

W: Morning everybody, according to your text, signaling, more precisely in economics, is the idea that one party by using a third party credibly conveys some information about itself to another party. Let me give you an example about my friend who owns a jewelry store. A big problem she had recently was that people would come into her store, look around, and then run off without making a purchase. This is because jewelry is a big investment, and customers really have no idea if the jewelry is indeed real.

Then my friend found a jewelry expert who placed some expensive jewels in fire to prove that they were real. My friend used this jewelry expert as a signaler, that is, she introduced a third party to judge the quality of her jewelry through the experiments.

The end result was that my friend’s jewels were indeed real. He hung the results as an advertisement in his front window. Afterwards something spectacular happened soon after: the same customers who came in and just looked around now had the confidence in the jewels and made the purchases.

Note ( 笔记)

Response( 参考答案)

Question 5

Conversation

W: Hey, Mark. You look worried, I can tell by the look on your face. What’s wrong?

M: Well, this is tough. I’ve just been informed that my audition time for the play Hamlet has been changed from next week to tomorrow. The worst thing is that I’ve promised my roommate I would help tutor him for his physics test tonight, leaving me no time to prepare for the audition.

W: Ouch!! Sounds like you have almost no time. What’s your plan?

M: I don’t know. I really need to prepare for my audition tonight.

W: Hmm…maybe you could ask someone else to help your roommate out. I am sure your roommate will understand.

M: No, I can’t just renege on my promise by not showing up. I have promised him to help him prepare for his test. I worry he won’t be happy.

W: Ah, I see. Well, then I guess you could just help him first, and then prepare your audition. How’s that?

M: Right, but then I might not have enough time to do all the preparation for the audition next day.

W: Hmmm…well, my friend, I don’t know what to tell you.

Note ( 笔记)

Response( 参考答案)

Question 6

Lecture

W: Mountains are as beautiful as they are deadly. The innumerous dangers, if not taken seriously can either kill us or cause us to be badly injured. These dangers include steep inclines, ice, snow, and bone chilling winds. However, some species of animals can live on mountain ranges because they have developed and formed two features, allowing them tosurvive in the harsh mountain environment over thousands of years.

A strong muscle structure is one significant feature of species like Mountain goats. They have developed to adapt to the mountain environment over time. A strong muscular system enables them to climb at seemingly impossible angles and jump nimbly from ledge to ledge when they are searching or foraging food in mountain areas.

As we all know, mountain roads or rocks are extremely steep and slippery with snow, making animals easy to fail. Therefore, special feet are another important feature that species dwelling in the area acquire. The Bighorn sheep have become well adapted to living on slippery and rocky cliffs. Their hoofs or feet have special pads with hard sharp edges surrounding a soft inner area which provide the animals with extra traction thus preventing them from skidding on the rocks. Therefore, the Bighorn sheep can get a better grip while climbing.

Note ( 笔记)

Response( 参考答案)