tpo（124）口语task36文本word版.doc

新托福突破口TPO（1-24）口语文本 新托福突破口其实还是留有很多遗憾的，这里面一个很大的遗憾，就是一直都没有一份口语音频的原文出现！今天借助网友“宇宇”的分享，我们终于弥补了这个遗憾！十分感谢“宇宇”！ 虽然现在已经发布了新托福突破口TPO25与TPO26，但是这份材料我们是苦苦等了5年才等到的，因此各位考友暂时也就别再等新托福突破口TPO25与TPO26口语文本的到来了，就先使用这份已有的资料吧，毕竟这里面已经都包含了24套了，完全没有必要为剩下的2套进行纠结。 其实这份新托福突破口TPO的文本一直没有引起太多人的注意，也是有他的原因的，毕竟TPO口语部分之中的听力难度，还是赶不上听力部分本身的难度的。如果在口语部分的听力都解决不了的话，那么其实TPO的听力也真的是难有出头之日了。从这个角度来说，我们其实不是很重视口语的听力部分。 但是，从学习的角度来说，其实很多考友还是很难一步就达到托福考试的要求的，而且在准备托福的时间段里面，还有很强烈的准备托福口语的需要，但是这个时候听力实力还不够强，此时，这份资料就派上用场了。 这份资料会有如下3大用处： 1. 各位考友可以在手里还不是很强的时候，可以用这份资料来替代口语音频，帮助我们练习。 2. 可以跟读这份材料，来帮助自己矫正自己的口语发音，同时也可以拿这份材料做转述！因为这份材料十分的口语化，而且逻辑性非常的好，非常适合我们作为口语转述的资料。 3. 对于水平比较低的考友，用这份材料做听写，其实也是可以的，因为材料比较短，而且难度也比较低，作为一个接入型的教材，也是不错的。其实口语的核心还是在于多开口说，多开口练。如果你对于口语的练习，实在没有方向的话，也可以看一下无老师的30小时，拿下托福口语！ ，一定会令你茅塞顿开的！目录TPO15Task 35Task 46Task 57Task 68TPO29Task 39Task 410Task 511Task 612TPO313Task 313Task 414Task 515Task 617TPO418Task 318Task 419Task 520Task 622TPO523Task 323Task 425Task 526Task 627TPO628Task 328Task 430Task 531Task 633TPO734Task 334Task 436Task 537Task 638TPO839Task 339Task 440Task 541Task 643TPO944Task 344Task 446Task 547Task 649TPO1050Task 350Task 452Task 553Task 654TPO1155Task 355Task 456Task 557Task 658TPO1259Task 359Task 460Task 561Task 663TPO1364Task 364Task 465Task 566Task 667TPO1468Task 368Task 470Task 571Task 673TPO1574Task 374Task 476Task 577Task 679TPO1680Task 380Task 482Task 583Task 684TPO1785Task 385Task 486Task 587Task 688TPO1889Task 389Task 491Task 592Task 693TPO1994Task 394Task 495Task 596Task 698TPO2099Task 399Task 4101Task 5102Task 6104TPO21105Task 3105Task 4107Task 5108Task 6110TPO22111Task 3111Task 4113Task 5114Task 6116TPO23117Task 3117Task 4119Task 5120Task 6122TPO24123Task 3123Task 4125Task 5126Task 6128TPO1Task 3Did you see Paul s letter in the paper about the new sculpture?Yeah, but it was totally unconvincing. His reasons for opposing the plan were just totally off. I am glad we 'll finally have some nice arts on campus. I d like to shake donor 's hand and say thank you.What do you mean the donor?You didn't know? An anonymous donor is paying the bill for most of the sculpture.Not the university?No, his assumptions about who is paying for are all wrong.Still I wonder if he has a point about the space that it will take up.Well, you know why Paul is upset? He and his friends are always out there on the lawn right where the sculpture will be, kicking around the soccer ball. Now they 'll just have to use another part of the campus to play.Oh, so he just does not want to have to move.Yeah. for him, its sculpture versus convenience.Task 4So let me tell you about my own experience with this when I was working for a computer company a couple of years ago. So one day a coworker and I suggested we should our computers a design makeover, make them look more up to date. Market research was showing that new customers said that they would be more interested in buying our computers if they looked cooler. Our technology was advanced but the outside design looked really old fashioned. At first, more than half the group supported us. There were a few senior managers there though who did not support the design change. One of the senior managers said our focus has always been on technology, changing the look is an unnecessary cost. Almost immediately some of our supporters changed their minds. Even my coworker changed his mind. When I asked him why after the meeting, he told me he did not want to make a bad impression on the senior managers. He thought that disagreeing with them might jeopardize his chances of getting a promotion by not looking like a team player. What about me? I hated to admit it, but after a few hours discussion, I started wondering if it was worthy every one 's time to argue about this. As more people sided with senior management, I started to feel like I was the only one holding up the vote. Every one else seemed to think change wasn't necessary so I voted against my own idea in the end. So we unanimously decided to stay with the current old looking design. But this decision ended up costing us a lot of money. That same year, our competitor came up with a new design that attracted some of our customers and prevented us from profiting on potential new customers.Task 5Hi, Mary, how is your voluntary work going? You still involved in that after school program with the elementary school kids?Yeah, but I have got a problem. I am supposed to be driving a bunch of them to the zoo tomorrow.Yeah?And I was supposed to rent a van for the trip. But I waited too long to call the rental agency to reserve one and now it turns out they do not have any vans available for tomorrow. I don't know what to do. These kids will be really disappointed if their trip gets cancelled.Well, does not one of your friends here on campus have a car? I mean could not you borrow it for the day?Yeah, probably, but I need to borrow two cars, or there would not be enough space for all the kids.That is why I was going to rent a van and then I need to find somebody else to drive too. I can't drive two cars by myself.Yeah, that is true. Well, I am sure you can probably find a volunteer. Or if you want to save yourself the trouble of hunting down as a second driver, well, what about public transportation, check the bus schedule and I think there is a bus line that goes right past the zoo.Yeah, that is a possibility. But I don't know it might be a real challenge supervising the kids on the bus. Sometimes they are a handful when they get excited. It is an option, though.Task 6Scientists have learned some interesting things about the intellectual abilities of babies. They say there is evidence that babies as young as five month old can do basic arithmetic: that they can add. Scientists think that babies know that one plus one equals two and not one, the evidence is indirect because obviously, you can not ask a five month old baby to add up some numbers for you so they devised an experiment where in this experiment a baby is shown a doll on a table. okay, so the baby looks at the doll. Then the researcher lowers a screen in front of the doll. So now the doll is hidden behind the screen. But the baby has already seen the doll and so know it is there. Well, then the researcher takes a second doll and very obviously places it behind the screen with the first one. Okay, so now you have two dolls behind the screen, right? Well ,no. Because what the researchers did was they secretly took away one of the dolls. And then when they raised the screen back up, the baby, well, it expects to see two dolls, right? But there is only one there. And guess what? The baby is surprised. It expects two , but it only sees one. How could the researchers tell that the baby is surprised. Well, they recorded the baby 's eye movements on camera. And we know that when a baby is surprised by something, a loud noise or an unexpected flash of light maybe, it stares at where the noise or light is coming from and that is what the babies in the experiment did. They stared because a baby knows if you add one doll and one doll, you should have two dolls. So, when it sees one doll, then it stares because it is surprised.TPO2Task 3I don't like the university 's plan.Really? I 've ridden those buses and sometimes there were only a few people on the bus. It did seem like a kind of a waste.I see your point, but I think the problem is the route out of date. It only goes to the neighborhood that have gotten too expensive for students to live in. It is ridiculous that they have not already changed route, you know, so it goes where most off-campus students live now. I bet if they did that, they d get plenty of students riding those buses.Well, at least they are adding more parking, it has gotten really tough to find a space.That is the other part I do not like, actually. Cutting back the bus service and adding parking just encourage more students to drive on campus and that just adds to noise around campus and create more traffic. And that ll increase the need for more parking spaces.Yeah, I guess I can see your point. Maybe it would be better if more students use the buses instead of driving.Right. And the university should make it easier to do that, not harder.Task 4Okay, so we said that the way we interact others has an impact on our behavior. In fact, there is some interesting research to suggest that in one type of interaction, when we are being observed, specifically, when we know we are being watched as we performed some activity, we tend to increase the speed at which we perform that activity. In one study, college students were asked to each put on a pair of shoes, shoes with laces they would have to tie. Now , one group of students was told that they would be observed. The second group, however, didn't know they were being observed. The students who were aware that they were being watched, actually tied their shoes much faster than the students who thought their were alone. Other studies confirm the same is true, even when we are learning new activities. Let's say someone is learning a new task, for example, learning how to type. When they are conscious of being observed, they ll likely begin typing at a much faster rate than they would if they were alone. But and this is interesting, the study also showed that certain common behavior, things people typically do like making mistakes when youre learning something new. That behavior pattern will also increase. So in other words, when we are learning to type, and we know we are being watched, we all type faster but we ll also make more mistakes.Task 5Mary, I am so glad that I ran into you.Oh, hello, professor Jenson.Listen, I know its short notice and maybe you have already made the plans for spring break, but one of my students just dropped out of the field trip to the Smithson river caves. You are next on the waiting list, so now there is room for you to come along.You are kidding. I did not think there was a chance and well, it is a three day trip right? I agreed to spend next week helping professor Clark set up the new museum exhibition. I think she is really counting on me.Yeah, three days. But you know, if you d rather come on the field trip why not speak with her and see if she has any one to replace you. Yeah, I d hate to miss out on the caves. I 'll definitely ask professor Clark if there is someone else could help her.You know we don't leave until Wednesday. If you still have to help out, any chance you could get the museum set up done before then.Oh, yeah, not until Wednesday, so then, yeah, maybe that 's possible too.Task 6So, let's talk about money. What is money? Well, typically, people think of coins and paper bills as money. But that is using a somewhat narrow definition of the term. A broad definition is this: money is anything that people can use to make purchases with. Since many things can be used to make purchases, money can have many different forms. Certainly, coins and bills are one form of money. People exchange goods and services for coins or paper bills and they use this money these bills to obtain other goods and services. For example you might give a taxi driver five dollars to purchase a ride in his taxi. And he in turn gives the five dollar to a farmer to buy some vegetables. But as I said, coins and bills are not the only form of money under this broad definition. Some societies make use of a barter system. Basically, in a barter system, people exchange goods and services directly for other goods and services. The taxi driver, for example, might give a ride to a farmer in exchange for some vegetables. Since the vegetables are used to pay for a service, by a broad definition the vegetables are used in barter as a form of money. Now as I mentioned there is also a second, a narrower definition of money, in the United States, only coins and bills are legal tender, meaning that by law, a seller must accept them as payment. The taxi driver must accept coins or bills as payment for a taxi ride, okay? But in the U.S, the taxi driver is not required to accept vegetables in exchange for a ride. So a narrower definition of money might be whatever is legal tender in a society, whatever has to be accepted as payment.TPO3Task 3Do you believe any of these? It's ridiculous.What do you mean? Well, it is important to eat healthy food.Sure, it is. But they are saying yogurt is better for you than an omelet or than hot cereal? I mean whether something is hot or cold, that should not be the issue. Except maybe on a really cold morning, in that case which is going to be better for you, a bowl of cold cereal or a nice warm omelet? It's obvious; there is no question.I am not going to argue with you thereAnd this whole thing about saving money.What about it?Well, they are actually going to make things worse for us, not better. Because if they start cutting back and we can't get what we want right here on campus. Well we are going to be going off campus and pay off campus prices. And you know what? That will be expensive. Even if it is only two or three mornings a week ,it can add up. Task 4This is a true story, from my own life. In my first year in high school, I was addicted to video games. I played them all the time, and I was not studying enough. I was failing chemistry that was my hardest class. So this was a conflict for me, because I wanted a good job when I grew up, and I believed, I knew that if you wanted a good career, you got to do well in school. But I just could not give up video games. I was completely torn. And my solution was to change my perspective. See, the only class I was doing really badly in was chemistry, in the others, I was okay. So I asked myself if I wanted to be a chemist when I grew up. And the fact is I didn't. I was pretty sure I wanted to be a sociologist. So, I told myself my chemistry class didn't matter, because sociologists don't really need to know chemistry. In other words, I change my understanding of what I meant to do well in school. I reinterpreted my situation. I used to think that doing well in school meant doing well in all my classes. But now I decided that succeeding in school meant only doing well in the classes that related directly to my future career. I eliminated the conflict, at least in my mind.Ta