2019年6月朗阁新托福口语考题题库

Question 1

A friend needs to take a part-time job in a Spanish restaurant at night which makes her tired and cannot concentrate in the class. Give your advice to your friend. Use details and examples to explain your answer.

Question 2

Some people prefer to communicate by talking face to face or on the phone, while others prefer to communicate by sending emails or text messages. Which way do you prefer and why? Please give specific details to support your opinion.

Question 3

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【学校通知】：

The school plans to shut the gym down.

Reason 1: to update locker rooms and shower facilities;

Reason 2: The students can use an off-campus gym freely;

【学生态度】：The woman disagrees.

Reason 1: It’s unnecessary to shut the whole gym down. They can just shut the area they are working on. And students can change their clothes and take shower in their dorms which are close to the gym.

Reason 2: The off-campus gym is far away from campus. And students are exhausted after working out. So they may not be willing to walk.

Question: Explain the woman’s opinion and why she holds that opinion.

Question 4

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Listening part

【名词解释】：

Predator saturation:

Plants produce a mass of seeds to prevent their seeds from being eaten by animals.

【教授举例】：

Bamboo produces tons of seeds every 120 years in different seasons to prevent their seeds from being eaten by big mammals. Besides this, bamboo usually grows very slow, so some years it might not grow. By saturating their seeds, bamboo can expand to many places, and therefore grow there in the future.

Question: 用听力的例子来解释对这个概念的理解。

Question 5

【学生困难】：The girl has a time conflict between her tutoring program and her history class in this semester.

【解决方案】：There are two possible solutions.

First, change her history class to the next semester

Pro: It can continue her tutoring program.

Con: The history class will change from ancient to modern, and she is not interested in it.

Second, ask her classmate from math class to help her

Pro: She can take history classes this semester.

Con: she cannot keep tutoring kids math any more.

Question 6

【讲课要点】：Senses usually interact to provide the comprehensive understanding of an object. Experiments test results of sight and touching senses work individually. For example, two bottles are with the same volume, one is tall and thin, and the other is short and wide.

Sight sense: the first group of people only watches the bottle, and most of them think the tall and thin bottle contains larger volume.

Touching sense: the second group of people is asked to cover their eyes, and touch the two bottles. And most of them think the short and wide bottle contains larger volume.

Question 1

The school provides some volunteer activities in the library for students. Which of the following activities would you prefer to participate in?

A) Finding books by using computers

B) Reading books to children

C) Preparing shelves in the library

Question 2

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

People should be fined if they watch their mobile phones when they are walking on the way or across the road?

Use specific examples and details to support your opinion.

Question 3

Reading part

Listening part

【学校通知】：

The school plans to cancel the tutorial lessons for engineering freshman for two reasons.

1. a lack of volunteer tutors;

2. no clear evidence shows that the tutorials can help improve the learning of students;

【学生态度】：The woman holds a negative idea.

1. PhD candidates in engineering department can play the role. This will not take them a lot of time, and they are knowledgeable;

2. The tutorials benefit the students a lot. Students can have a better understanding of the textbooks and reading assignments.

Question: Explain the woman’s opinion and why he holds that opinion.

Question 4

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Listening part

【名词解释】：Pratfall effect:

When a person is already considered as competent, people will admire him or her more if he or she makes minor mistakes.

【教授举例】：

A group of people watch two video clips, in which the same person answers the same questions except for one difference.

In the first video, the man answered all the questions correctly. In the second video, the man also answered all the questions correctly, but spilt a cup of coffee on his shirt. And people tend to prefer the man in the second video.

Question: 用听力的例子来解释对这个概念的理解。

Question 5

【学生困难】：The girl wants to study in Germany, but the flight ticket is too expensive to afford.

【解决方案】：There are two possible solutions:

First, put off the timetable

Pro: can get the cheaper ticket

Con: miss the first orientation week in the school

Second, arrive in Berlin first and then take the train

Pro: save money

Con: As she has never been to Germany before, it would be difficult for her to find the way from the airport to the train station.

Question 6

【讲课要点】：The professor talks about two types of memory:

One is called declarative memory, which means a person knows the true fact of a certain thing;

The other one is procedural memory, which means that a person knows how to do a certain thing.

The professor uses the examples of bicycle and sports coach to illustrate these two kinds of memories.